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United we stand

Review of Walker Guidelines

The Guidelines Monitoring Group (GMG) has just released its first report reviewing conformity with the Walker Guidelines and recommendations.

An optimistic outlook

A global survey of fund managers, with collectively over US$10 trillion under management, predicts a generally optimistic outlook for this year.

EU regulation for credit rating agencies

The European Union is proposing new rules for ratings agencies which are designed to restore market confidence and ensure investor protection.

Venture capital in Australia

UK backs CG initiative in Philippines

CII statement on executive pay

Globalisation needed in US boardrooms

Executive pay in Switzerland

Reporting best practice

Susan Nightingale takes a look at a recent Report which considers reporting best practice and draws examples from the published Reports of a number of FTSE 350 companies.

Can the law prevent another financial crisis?

Philip Wood looks back at previous financial crises and the role that the law played and argues that it is not necessarily right to reach for the legislative sledgehammer.