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Investor focus on diversity and pensions

The Investment Association has announced it will highlight companies who are lagging behind on diversity or pay pension contributions to executive directors at rates above the majority of the workforce.

Governing culture

A new report from EY is designed to help boards and committees consider the impact of culture on key business areas such as strategy, risk, talent, stakeholder relationships and reward when they are making decisions.

Audit committees and audit quality

The International Organisation of Securities Commissions has published a report outlining how audit committees of listed companies can be more effective in promoting and supporting external audit quality.

Whistleblowing in the regulatory sector

Leading whistleblowing experts Protect look at how the UK’s prescribed regulators are complying with the new reporting duties on whistleblowing.

Measuring governance

Using a novel approach, academics Boris Nikolov, Erwan Morellec, and Norman Schürhoff have devised a framework which can be used to gauge the actual impact on a firm’s value of some common governance problems and the relative impact on different stakeholder groups.

Cyber risk

Neil Hare-Brown considers how boards should tackle cyber crime and suggests seven key strategies forming the foundations for effective cyber risk management.