AGM

Robert Branagh is stepping down as president of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI), and is replaced by Lesley Carline who becomes its third female president.

Pension schemes and institutional investors are being offered a "revolutionary" streamlined process for exercising their shareholder voting rights as KAS Bank launches Voteroom.

FTSE 350 company shareholders face 'significant dissent' as executive pay tops corporate governance issues, The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) says.

Recommendations encouraging pension funds to vote against companies failing to act on climate change have been published by the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA).

A number of asset managers are to vote against the re-election of Sports Direct board members, including its chairman Keith Hellawell, at its annual general meeting (AGM) on 6 September.

This week's biggest stories were the introduction of the LISA bill, the Pensions Regulator urging trustees to wake up to ESG risks, and shareholder rebellions at Sports Direct and ExxonMobil AGMs.

Major pension funds and asset managers have voted against the re-election of Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley and chairman Keith Hellawell at the company's annual general meeting on 7 September.

Lesley Williams has been appointed the first woman chairperson of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) and will succeed incumbent Ruston Smith whose two year term ends in October.

Some asset managers are failing to use their voting rights to properly steward pension assets and are not being sufficiently transparent, according to a report by ShareAction.

Almost all of BP's shareholders have voted to force the company to disclose the risks it faces from climate change.