FRC

Baroness Sarah Hogg is to step down as chairman of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the governance body has announced.

More trustees must engage with initiatives like the Stewardship Code, according to UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association.

The Financial Reporting Council has been appointed a member organisation of the Accounting Standards Advisory Forum.

Taha Lokhandwala explains the FRC's changes to schemes statutory money purchase illustration duties.

Almost all FTSE350 firms put all of their directors up for re-election every year thanks to increased take-up of the Stewardship Code, the Financial Reporting Council says.

Half of FTSE350 firms fail to comply with the UK corporate governance code, but more companies actively seek engagement with investors on governance issues than last year, Grant Thornton says.

The National Association of Pension Funds has launched a policy it says will help funds follow the Stewardship Code.

The Financial Reporting Council has brought actuarial work on pension incentive exercises into the scope of its technical actuarial standards.

The Financial Reporting Council has published a draft revision of the standard governing investment return assumptions used to calculate Statutory Money Purchase Illustrations.

The Financial Reporting Council has announced the membership of its newly-formed regulatory committee, the Actuarial Council.