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Non-executive directors in growth companies

A new Report looks at how the role of non-execs in growth companies varies according to company characteristics, including size and stage of development, business/operating model complexity and shareholding structure.

Annual reports and accounts in 2018/19

EY’s annual review of FTSE 350 annual reports and accounts shows that there has been an encouraging early adoption of new reporting requirements.

Shareholder dissent in European companies

Shareholder dissent in Germany and Spain has risen sharply this year as big investors hold executives to account over pay, governance standards and corporate scandals, according to the Georgeson annual review of the European AGM season.

Oversight of non-financial risk

New diversity disclosure requirements

A different form of governance

Richard Smerdon provides a case study on how a co-operative delivers good governance and good results based on a sociocratic way of working.

Governance in Latin America

John Lawrence looks at the development of corporate governance in Peru.