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Making changes

Best practice on risk

The Financial Reporting Council is exploring how companies are responding to the new UK Corporate Governance Code principle on the board’s responsibilities for risk.

Improving governance disclosure

Companies engaged in more sensitive, or controversial, business activities often produce better annual reports according to a new report by ICSA and Hermes Equity Ownership.

Mitigating competition risks

The responsibilities placed on directors for ensuring compliance with competition law are onerous and can lead to criminal; prosecution. Catriona Munro looks at how individual directors can protect themselves from prosecution.

Never too late to learn: Part 2

In the second part of his article looking at the global financial crisis, David Anderson considers the role boards played and how they can and should improve their performance in the future.

Corporate engagement 

Peter Lloyd considers the results of what is almost certainly the first comprehensive survey of investor opinion addressing the shareholder engagement implications of the Stewardship Code.