A look ahead to 2014's AGM season

Naomi Rainey looks at the corporate governance issues likely to crop up in this year’s round of AGMs

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This year's annual general meeting (AGM) season kicks off in the coming weeks, giving investors an opportunity to examine companies' conduct.

While last year's AGMs failed to repeat the wide-scale dissent of 2012's ‘shareholder spring' (PP Online, 13 June 2013), changes in regulations and events in the last 12 months could see some chall...

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