The OECD's Guidelines on Insurer Governance

The OECD has published a revised edition of its Guidelines on Insurer Governance: see here (pdf). For further information about the new edition see here.

UK: the Manifest/MM&K Total Remuneration Survey 2011

A short summary of the results of the Manifest/MM&K Total Remuneration Survey 2011 has been published: see here. Amongst the findings reported is a shift from long-term incentives (e.g., those over three years) towards annual bonuses and a 32% increase in the median of FTSE100 chief executive remuneration.

UK: gender diversity and new FTSE100 non-executive directors

Yesterday's Independent newspaper reported - see here - that in the past six months, women accounted for 23 per cent of new FTSE100 non-executive director appointments (in 2010, just under 10 per cent of new appointments were women).

Finland: the 2010 corporate governance code

The codes and principles directory maintained by the European Corporate Governance Institute has this week been updated to include a copy, in English, of the Finnish Corporate Governance Code 2010 published by the Securities Market Association: see here. 

USA: rewards for whistleblowing - SEC publishes rules

The Securities and Exchange Commission has published final rules regarding its new whistleblowing programme: see here (pdf). Further information is available here.