When is an employees’ share scheme not an employees’ share scheme? The answer is: when it’s an Inclusive Ownership Fund (IOF). Few would disagree that an engaged workforce delivers greater productivity or that offering shares to employees creates direct engagement with the financial and economic performance of the business. But proposals announced at the Labour…

September 27, 2018 Read more >

How will Remuneration Committees cope with their expanded remit? Changes to UK corporate governance guidance and disclosure regulations introduced this summer have expanded the remit of remuneration committees. The effects reach beyond quoted companies. We have designed a programme to help navigate through the added complexity. The UK Corporate Governance Code (UKCGC), applicable to companies…

September 27, 2018 Read more >

Commons Committee on the tail of the fat cats again The Commons Committee is chasing a myth again. Its chair, Rachel Reeves, has told the Mail on Sunday that the Committee is going to ramp up its attack on fat cats this autumn. She believes that executive pay is increasing at a rate that vastly…

September 27, 2018 Read more >

Governance landscape at a glance “the most eventful year in history” 2018 has been, probably, the most eventful year in UK history on remuneration governance. The year saw the culmination of the Government’s wide initiative on corporate governance reform, with a revised UK Corporate Governance Code published by the FRC in July and new corporate…

September 27, 2018 Read more >

SEC rescinds guidance providing regulatory support for using proxy advisors On Thursday 13th September, the SEC rescinded two guidance letters from 2004 in a move that will potentially reduce the influence that ISS has on, among other things, Say-on-Pay votes. These guidance letters informed investment managers that outsourcing their proxy voting decisions to proxy advisors…

September 17, 2018 Read more >

Investment Association register of AGM votes 2018 On 30 August the Investment Association published its analysis of voting in the 2018 AGM season. Company resolutions are added to the register if they fail to achieve an 80% vote in favour. The picture is rather confused. For all listed companies the number of resolutions not achieving…

August 30, 2018 Read more >

Pay Ratios Disclosure Regulations Which companies do the pay ratio requirements apply to? Quoted companies (not AIM companies) with >250 UK employees (average no. over the financial year). This includes all UK employees who have a contract of service with the company, regardless of hours worked, although it is the FTE pay figure that is…

August 29, 2018 Read more >

The Companies (Miscellaneous Reporting) Regulations 2018 On 11 June the Government put before Parliament a substantial and important statutory instrument, “The Companies (Miscellaneous Reporting) Regulations 2018” (2018  Regulations) which gives effect to a wide range of corporate governance reporting improvements that BEIS has been working on ever since its Corporate Governance Green Paper of 29…

July 16, 2018 Read more >

Changes to the UK Corporate Governance Code The Impact of the FRC’s proposed changes to the UK Code was the theme for the recent Remuneration Dinner held by MM&K – the latest in its series of dinners for CEOs and Non-Executive Directors.  To read an overview of the evening click here. The final Code was…

July 16, 2018 Read more >

Recent changes to the QCA Corporate Governance Code The Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA), has also been revising its Code and made radical changes (the number of Principles has been reduced from 12 to 10). The Code was issued on 25 April. It is considered to be more flexible than the UK Code and more suitable for…

July 16, 2018 Read more >

Making Executive bonus plans more effective On 11 June 2018, MM&K hosted one of its regular dinners for Company Chairman, Non-executive Directors and Chief Executives. The topic for discussion at the dinner was “making executive bonus plans more effective”. A note of the discussion (which was held under the Chatham House Rule) can be accessed…

June 12, 2018 Read more >

Please click here for the notes from our 11 June 2018 MM&K Remuneration Dinner for Chairmen, CEO’s and Remuneration Committee Chairs. The theme for discussion was: “Bonus plans and how to make them better”

June 12, 2018 Read more >