With UK policymakers weighing reforms to AGM rules, investors are moving to ensure virtual meetings do not come at the expense of board accountability.

A little-noticed SEC rule change could have major implications for investors as the agency weighs sweeping reforms to ...

BP’s boardroom turmoil has escalated from shareholder unrest to a full-blown governance crisis. BP has removed Chair Albert Manifold with immediate effect, only months after his appointment, following ...

EU Inc. could remove cross-border friction, but without clear safeguards at IPO it risks embedding weaker governance structures into public markets and undermining investor protection. Presented as ...

A FTSE chair removed within days of AGM, and an activist caused the entire board to be replaced. Minerva has published an early look at the 2026 UK Proxy Season, finding that shareholder dissent ...

A group of Republican lawmakers is challenging the anti-ESG backlash from within its own ranks, arguing that political interference in investment decisions threatens free markets and investor autonomy ...

Minerva’s evidence shows that Europe continues to underperform on shareholder participation despite SRD II being fully in force. The European Commission is now deciding how far the review of the ...

Shell’s AGM showed that, for investors, how a board handles climate pressure may now matter more than how forcefully it resists it. Shell’s annual general meeting on 19 May delivered a climate vote ...

A potential repeal of Rule 14a-8 would turn the SEC’s retreat from shareholder proposal oversight into a structural test of whether US investors still have a reliable route to raise governance ...

French investors seek to standardise how investors evidence stewardship impact, shifting reporting from activity to demonstrable influence and giving asset owners a more consistent basis for assessing ...

SBTi 2.0 may look like a technical update, but for investors it marks a major shift in climate credibility from meeting targets to proving how companies are trying to deliver them. The Science Based ...

ExxonMobil’s move to Texas may have passed comfortably on paper, but the near‑30% dissent highlights deep investor unease about how voting structures can shape governance outcomes. ExxonMobil ...