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Daily Brief ESG: Looking Forward to Discussion on How to Improve the Quality of Corporate Governance Practices and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Looking Forward to Discussion on How to Improve the Quality of Corporate Governance Practices

Looking Forward to Discussion on How to Improve the Quality of Corporate Governance Practices

By Aki Matsumoto

  • The fact that TSE, which has revised Corporate Governance Code several times, is now discussing improving the quality of corporate governance shows that the governance practices have become a formality.
  • Regarding the expansion of English-language disclosure, there is need to eliminate the mismatch between the documents that companies translate into English and those that overseas investors demand to be translated.
  • Asset owners should keep encouraging asset managers to follow Stewardship Code. Appropriate action by asset managers to deal with the BOJ owned ETFs will encourage changes in the companies.

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