Corporate Governance
Simple, effective and documented corporate governance
DuplexIR has a number important roles to play in the corporate governance process.
Not only does it allow companies to comply with the Governance Code, but it can also provide Non-Execs and non-City facing execs with a clear insight into this aspect of the company.
DuplexIR can improve the day to day interaction between companies and investors in line with increasing regulatory, social and end investor demands. This is demonstrable for both the companies that use the service and for the investors that provide the feedback.
On request DuplexIR can provide valuable data on feedback activity to governance officers, allowing them to see how their fund managers are engaging and potentially to compare this to the broader investment community.
We conclude that the quality – and not the amount – of engagement by shareholders determines whether the influence of equity markets on corporate decisions is beneficial or damaging to the long-term interests of companies. And we conclude that public equity markets currently encourage exit (the sale of shares) over voice (the exchange of views with the company) as a means of engagement, replacing the concerned investor with the anonymous trader.
Professor John Kay
Kay review of UK equity markets and long-term decision making. November 2012
...when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind;
Lord Kelvin
Physicist
E.1.1 The Chairman should ensure that the views of shareholders are communicated to the Board as a whole. E.1.2 The Board should state in the annual report the steps they have taken to ensure that the members of the Board, and in particular the non-executive directors, develop an understanding of the views of major shareholders about their company...
Financial Reporting Council
The UK Corporate Governance Code. September 2012
In God we trust, all others (must) bring data
W. Edwards Deming
Engineer, statistician, academic and management consultant
'Know what you own and know why you own it
Peter Lynch
Manager of the Magellan Fund
Honest, nuanced, constructive and, as necessary, challenging feedback is best for all parties
Enhancing stewardship dialogue
The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators
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