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Following ACGA’s investor delegation to Seoul earlier this year, we have prepared a report to highlight the ongoing challenges our members and investors generally face with Korea&# ...
ACGA new report
We are pleased to share with you a new report, "Activating Asia'', on listed companies and investors in the 12 markets we cover. The research takes a deeper look at our CG Watch 2023 findings for these two categories, examining 180 of the larger listed companies in the region and analysing 17 criteria we apply for the investors category.
Key points from the report:
- Listed companies and investors are among the weakest in ACGA’s market CG eco-system ratings; investors coming out the lowest
- Companies’ practices on governance tend to follow market regulations and rarely go beyond compliance
- Australian companies are ahead followed by Malaysia, India, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong in our CG ratings
- Common weaknesses relate to board diversity, lack of independent chairs or Lead INEDs, unimpressive CG reports, poor disclosures on board evaluation and executive remuneration
- Activism and domestic owner leadership have resulted in improved ratings on investors for Japan and Korea
- Domestic and retail investors are generally not seen actively pursuing stronger governance in Asia
- Our research shows more active stewardship is correlated with advancing overall CG in the markets
Other Thematic Research
ACGA research on general mandate voting in Hong Kong
With Hong Kong falling from joint 2nd to 6th place in our recent 2023 CG Watch rankings, we decided to delve into the market's CG rules which ...
Board diversity at the top 100 in China
On 28 August 2023, ACGA released a research report, titled “Are private issuers closing the gender gap?”, on the board diversity at the top 100 in China.
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ACGA Research on Virtual AGMs in Asia-Pacific—AGMs: keep it real
On 10 February 2023, ACGA released a research report on virtual AGMs in Asia-Pacific "AGMs: keep it real".
The pandemic may be behind us, but virtual ...
Down to earth: Climate governance case studies in Asia Pacific
On 13 December 2022, ACGA published a new research report "Down to earth: Climate governance case studies in Asia Pacific" on climate governance prepared jointly with CLSA. ...
Board diversity at the top 100 in Hong Kong
On 3 January 2022, ACGA published our research into board diversity at the top 100 issuers in Hong Kong, “Old school mentality in the new economy”, which ...
Who shifted to virtual AGMs during Covid? It wasn’t the big tech firms
On 27 May 2021, ACGA published our research to find out which companies in Asia opted to continue in-person meetings and which shifted to virtual AGMs in 2020 ...
Awakening Governance: The evolution of corporate governance in China
On 24 July 2018, ACGA published a report, titled “Awakening Governance: The evolution of corporate governance in China”. It is an independent and objective review of the ...
Asian Proxy Voting Survey
On 8 September 2006, ACGA published its inaugural survey on proxy voting systems in Asia. Titled "Voting for Change: Bringing Proxy Voting Systems in Asia into the 21st ...
Building Stronger Boards and Companies in Asia
On 31 January 2000 the second edition of ACGA's first regional report, Building Stronger Boards and Companies in Asia, was published. It provided a concise overview of ...
