Gouvernance

Très intéressante cette allocution d’Howard Wetston, président de la CVMO prononcée dans le cadre d’une conférence à la Coalition canadienne pour une saine gestion des entreprises : « The Role of Shareholders in Addressing the Governance Challenges » (10 juin 2015).

As I indicated, I believe institutional investors need to be actively engaged in addressing the governance challenges that our public companies face today.

In my opinion, institutional investors should proactively engage with issuers on governance issues. This will allow issuers and investors to determine the appropriate governance practices for specific issuers or sectors. It will also allow regulators to focus on areas where voluntary progress is not occurring or feasible.

In my view, there are at least three important challenges that we face today:

1. the debate over shareholder activism and its long-term impact on our public companies;
2. the concern about executive compensation practices; and
3. increasing gender diversity on the boards of public companies

À la prochaine…

Ivan Tchotourian

Bonjour à toutes et à tous, intéressant article paru dans The Globe and Mail du 10 juin 2015 : « OSC rebukes firms for lack of action on gender-diversity rules ». Faut-il y voir là les limite des normes souple sur le modèle du comply or explain ? Le Canada ne devait-il pas aller plus loin comme la France ou les pays nordiques en imposant des quotas ?

Many companies have shown bare “technical compliance” with new gender-diversity reporting rules introduced this year and it is “simply not good enough,” Ontario Securities Commission chair Howard Wetston says. Mr. Wetston said on Wednesday that the OSC has begun reviewing proxy circulars filed this year to see how companies are responding to the rules requiring them to disclose details about their policies to bolster women in senior roles, or else explain why they do not have policies in place. While some companies have provided excellent disclosure and have a lot of women on their boards of directors, he said, others have been disappointing.

À la prochaine…

Ivan Tchotourian