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7 - A review of corporate governance in UK banks and other financial industry entities: the role of institutional shareholders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2011

William Sun
Affiliation:
Leeds Metropolitan University
Jim Stewart
Affiliation:
Leeds Metropolitan University
David Pollard
Affiliation:
Leeds Metropolitan University
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Summary

What is wrong with the British and American system is that far too many shareholders, both institutional and individual, do not behave like owners.

The Economist, 5 May 1990.

How far have we moved, if at all, from this state described by Rupert Pennant-Rea twenty years ago? The Treasury Committee suggests there has been inadequate progress, if indeed there has been any. The Walker Review of Corporate Governance of UK Banking Industry addresses the policy considerations underlying institutional responsibility which he styles ‘stewardship’.

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Corporate Governance and the Global Financial Crisis
International Perspectives
, pp. 134 - 143
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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References

Lipton, M.Lorsch, J. W.Mirvis, T. N. 2009
Monks, R.Sykes, A. 2002 Capitalism without Owners Will Fail: A Policymaker's Guide to ReformLondonCentre for the Study of Financial InnovationGoogle Scholar
Walker Review 2009 www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/walker_review_261109.pdf
Wheelan, H. 2009 http://www.responsibleinvestor.com/home/article/systemic/P1

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