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Norway’s funds push on KPIs
Norway’s largest financial institutional investors have launched a collaborative project to obtain data on companies’ environmental, social and governance performance. The coalition of investors, called Sustainable Value Creation (Bærekraftig verdiskaping), is conducting a survey of companies listed on the Oslo Børs Benchmark Index regarding looking at policies for sustainable value creation, including environment, corruption, human and labour rights.
Full story . . .Directors’ £200k pensions
Directors of the UK's top companies can retire on pensions of over £200,000 a year, according to the TUC’s annual PensionsWatch survey. The survey analyses the pension arrangements of 346 directors from 102 of the UK's top companies and shows that directors of the UK’s biggest companies have amassed pension pots that average around £3 million each, providing an annual pension of £201,700 a year - 25 times the average workplace pension that ordinary workers receive (£8,100). Directors with the greatest entitlements at each company have average pension pots of £5.2million and can expect a pension of £333,400 a year.
Full story . . .ECGS backs shareholder resolution at Danisco AGM
The European Corporate Governance Service (ECGS) has recommended that investors vote in favour of a shareholder proposal at food products business Danisco.
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