GO Stewardship Service - Europe Comments

Peter Butler’s speech at the ICGN Annual Conference in Seoul:
"Directors and shareholder dialogue – getting onto the same page"

Comment on “Institutional investors call for diversity at the top”
published in a Finnish magazine "Board News" (Issue 2, 2008)

GO European Newsletter
The Nordic Market

Statement at the Siemens AGM
in Munich on 24 January 2008

Comment on the “Quality of German supervisory boards”
in the newletter Insight Corporate Governance Germany

Letter to Commissioner McCreevy:
Response to the report on the Proportionality principle in the European Union

"Accelerating corporate governance reform in Germany”
printed in “Governance”, August 2007 Issue No 166

Letter to the EC:
Response to the European Commission’s document “Fostering an appropriate regime for shareholders’ rights; Third consultation document”

Letter to the FRC:
Response to FRC Discussion Paper on the combined code

Letter to Mr Wewel, German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF):
Response to the action plan of the BMF to limit the risks associated with financial investments

GO response to FRC:
On interim report of market participants group as part of audit choice project

Letter to the FRC:
Response to FRC Discussion Paper on Audit Quality

ECGI and LBS:
Returns to Shareholder Activism, Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes UK Focus Fund

Letter to the IASB:
Response to discussion paper on Management Commentary

Letter to Prof. Seibert, German Federal Ministry of Justice:
Response to the proposal to automatically count absent votes at German general meetings in favour of management

Letter to the FRC:
Response to FRC Discussion Paper on Choice in the UK Audit Market

Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times:
Intelligent involvement would lead to better governance

Peter Butler’s address to the ICGN Annual Conference in Washington
Hedge funds: the lasting impact

Marathon Club consultation paper:
GO's perspective

Letter to the FRC:
The Operating and Financial Review

Letter to the IASB:
Response to discussion paper on Management Commentary

Presentation:
Stewardship and the Role of Long-Term Institutional Shareholders

Consultation on the future priorities
for modernising company law and governance in the European Union

GO European Newsletter
France

How directors can deal with short-term investors:
Printed in FTfm on 20 March 2006

Letter to the DTI:
Business Reporting

Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times:
Vote buying gives short-termists the upper hand

Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times:
Let us create a new audit agenda in which firms succeed or fail on the basis of their work quality

Letter to DTI:
Company Law Reform Bill - Exercise of Voting Rights by Institutional Investors