The Investment Association (IA) will for the first time name and shame firms with poor levels of diversity and excessive executive pension contributions in this year's AGM season.
Via its Institutional Voting Information Service (IVIS), which provides corporate governance research to shareholders, the IA will "red top" companies - the highest level of warning IVIS issues - that have no or only one women on their board. Diversity blog: How online 'nudges' encourage women to invest IVIS will also issue its second highest warning "amber top" for companies not on course to meet the requirements of the Hampton-Alexander review, which encourages companies to have 33% of their board comprised by women by 2020. IVIS will also highlight any board with women representing...
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