Date: 18th April 2016
Author: BETTER FINANCE, BETTER FINANCE

A revamped platform facilitating proxy voting now comprises over 1500 European companies.

The financial crisis of 2008 revealed significant deficiencies in corporate governance, partly due to a lack of shareholder engagement. To this day individual investors continue to face many obstacles in exercising their voting rights and actively engage in the governance of the companies they invest in, especially cross-border.