[video] Oligarch court case raises Russia investment questions
The trial of Boris Berezovsky vs Roman Abramovich has highlighted Russia’s political and corporate governance issues. But will the case impact foreign investor appetite in the country? Daniel Garrahan...
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Guest post: paternalism vs meritocracy
By Alfredo Behrens of the FIA business school in São Paulo Which is the best way to run a business: paternalism or meritocracy? It depends what kind of society you are operating in. Here is a tale of...
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India: whistle-blowers, serious business
Facing the dilemma of reporting an act of wrongdoing in the workplace? Indian employees, whose attempts to report workplace misconduct often end up jeopardising their jobs, need fret no more: companies...
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Samsung: popularity lessons from Sweden’s Wallenbergs
Samsung, South Korea’s biggest conglomerate, could do with some tips from Sweden’s Wallenberg family about how to become a loved company. Marcus Wallenberg, chairman of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken...
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Guest post: Bumi case highlights dangers of global compliance challenges
By Steven Williams of CEB The multi-million dollar discrepancy between asset valuations in London and Indonesia, which has wiped around 50 per cent off the value of the coal miner Bumi’s shares in the...
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Indonesia: lessons from Bumi
Indonesia should consider revamping its corporate governance standards in the wake of the Bumi affair. Even though the case involves a dispute among private shareholders, the government must tread...
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Russian dividends: big step forward, bigger one back
Photo: Bloomberg Regulations introduced last week obliging Russian state companies to pay at least 25 per cent of their profits in dividends look like a step in the right direction for long suffering...
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Guest post: India’s new corporate governance code – the jury is still out
By George Dallas of F&C Investments Reeling from the shock of the $2bn accounting scandal at Satyam Computer Services in 2009, Indian regulators have responded with a plethora of initiatives to...
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Igor Sechin: He Man or Nice Guy?
Compromise is often seen as a sign of weakness in Russia so it’s encouraging to see one of the country’s most powerful men giving ground in a high profile conflict over corporate governance. Six months...
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Looking for India’s top 10 company boards? There are only 5…
Rana Kapoor, CEO of Yes Bank When the Hay Group teamed up with the Economic Times, the Indian newspaper, to indentify the best company boards in India, they assembled a panel headed by Kumar Birla, the...
View ArticleIndia’s companies bill: great intentions
Good news for the economy, good news for investors; bad news for anyone looking to make a quick buck scamming corporate India. India’s upper house of parliament has passed the Companies Bill 2012,...
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Guest post: what explains the Chinese and Russian stock discount?
By William Wilson In recent years, both Chinese and Russian stocks have sold at astonishingly low discounts relative to other emerging markets. While the price-earnings multiple (PE) for the MSCI...
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Ministerial merry-go-round at Polish copper miner KGHM
Normally carousels are for children but in Poland they are enjoyed by grown-ups, particularly when it comes to top jobs in companies where the state treasury has a significant stake. It has become a...
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EM transparency scorecard (part 2): Gulf companies show muscle, but not...
Transparency International’s latest report on emerging markets companies has slammed Chinese companies for their lax reporting standards, comparing them unfavourably with the relatively more open...
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Reshuffle at The Hindu raises questions in election year
The Hindu, established in 1878, is one of the most respected newspapers in India. But a boardroom tussle has brought its family owners back into key editorial positions, raising questions about the...
View ArticleIndia: leading the world in insider corporate fraud
From probes into a $750m AgustaWestland helicopter contract to an alleged land grab involving relations of Sonia Gandhi, leader of the ruling Congress party, corruption in India comes from the top...
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Guest post: Yukos and state-sponsored corruption in Russia
By Bruce Misamore Ten years ago this month my friend and business colleague, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was arrested at gunpoint in Novosibirsk – the start of a chain of state-sponsored intimidation and...
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Guest post: the pitfalls of Russia’s privatisation programme
By Pavel Morozov of State Solutions Russia’s heavily trailed privatisation programme, the scale of which has not been seen since the controversial loans-for-shares privatisations of the 1990s, has so...
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Guest post: Indian investors waking up to shareholder power
By Amit Tandon The role of institutional investors in Indian corporate governance is evolving as shareholders realize that they don’t just have the right, but a duty to engage with their portfolio...
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India: Promoters are borrowing less – is that good?
In India promoters – or controlling shareholders – can borrow money using their stock as collateral. It’s not a new practice – but what is surprising is that the value of these pledged shares as a...
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