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UK Board Index 2016 

In addition to the usual analysis of composition, remuneration and committee data, the 2016 edition of the Spencer Stuart UK Board Index continues to monitor diversity in its widest sense, exploring gender, nationality, age and ethnicity in leading UK companies.

CG and boardroom composition

A new KPMG report identifies some of the key challenges or barriers to building high-performing boards, as well as steps boards are taking to overcome these hurdles and position themselves as strategic assets for their companies.

Better CG disclosures in Malaysia

FT-ICSA Boardroom Bellwether survey

Guidelines on board evaluation in India

Dutch CG Code compliance

Companies must think ‘beyond profit’

Sallie Pilot considers the findings of an annual global survey of business leaders which found that most of the executives polled believe that their organisations must shift their attention beyond profit to wider value creation.

A surprising interest in governance

Paul Lee considers the proposals in the UK Governments’ recent Green Paper on corporate governance.