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Quality of reporting in large private UK companies

The FRC has issued its second assessment of the quality of reporting from private companies who have chosen to follow the Wates Principles.

Reshaping the boardroom

A new report from Heidrick & Struggles, Board Monitor UK 2024, explores six ways boards, and specifically FTSE 350 boards, are reshaping their processes to thrive in a shifting landscape. The Report looks at influences; allocation of time; addressing the risk environment; operational involvement; workforce engagement; and diversity.

The future of digital reporting

Cyber risk exposure

Supporting shareholder democracy

Professor Nicolas Rudolf considers the effects of pre-declaring voting intentions ahead of company meetings and argues that it is a governance tool that can support shareholder democracy.

The culture paradox

Annabel Gillard considers investors' billion-pound blind spot.

Complexity: the good, the bad and the necessary

Carl Sjostrom and Hans-Kristian Bryn challenge the conventional wisdom that complexity is always a negative and provide an approach to assessing it in terms of its impact on value.