UK - Pension funds have defended their use of "abstentions" on corporate governance issues that do not comply with recommendations in the Higgs report.
The NAPF said firms should see abstentions as a “warning shot across the bows”, highlighting issues which needed particular attention. The association spoke out after 18% of proxy votes at Carlt...
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