CG T11 & T12
Topic 11: Assessment of directors, boards, and companies (Ch17)
Topic 12: Corporate governance and the future: the next thirty years (Ch18)
Reviewing board and committee performance, p.441
Rating systems, p.450
Reviewing individual directors performance, p.447
Assessments for countries, p.453
Style / efficiency / effectiveness, p.445
Development, p.446
Structure / member profiles, p.442
Review flowchart, p.443
ISS's Governance Risk Indicators (GRId), p.451
Governance Metric International (GMI), p.451
Investor Responsibility Research Centre (IRRC), p.451
International Finance Corporation (IFC), p.452
S&P's GAMMA rating, p.450
CoreRatings, p.452
NB: All examples use different criteria and are therefore scores are not comparable
Future Frontiers (477)
Today's frontiers (470)
Emerging markets, i.e. China and India, p.484-5
Shareholder activism, p.470
Wider social awareness (CSR), p.474
Gender diversiy, p.473
Rules v Principles, p.477
Board culture. p.478
Integrated reporting, p.474
Influence of accounting standards (IFRS/GAAP), p.477
External auditors and advisers, p.481
Globalization, p.480
Complexity of organisational types, p.482
Less reliance on US capital, p.477/484-5
Increased risk profiles, p.473
Drivers of changes (484)
Response to corruption, collapses, economic crisis, p.484
Efforts of reformers and interest groups, p.485 #
Research and academics, p.486
Social, political and economic changes, p.487 #
Society's changing expectations, p.487
p.489 Final paragraph talks about trust, worth referring to.