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Daily Brief ESG: Companies that Fail to Be Accountable Raise Concerns About Their Fulfillment of Management Goals and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Companies that Fail to Be Accountable Raise Concerns About Their Fulfillment of Management Goals


Companies that Fail to Be Accountable Raise Concerns About Their Fulfillment of Management Goals

By Aki Matsumoto

  • The number of days before AGM a company discloses its annual securities report serves as a litmus test of whether it is conducting management that is accountable to its shareholders.
  • An activist investor’s shareholder proposal to change the record date to address the pre-AGM disclosure in annual securities reports and the concentration of AGM dates is indeed the right proposal.
  • This reluctance to engage with shareholders is believed to be the reason why capital profitability—an indicator of growth in shareholder value—is not increasing.

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