As part of the effort to research long-term value creation across the investment value chain, FCLTGlobal has reached a significant and surprising finding: board gender diversity is as important as revenue growth in predicting a company’s long-term success.
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From Impact Investing To Investing For Impact
By promoting divergent viewpoints, board diversity contributes to more deliberative decision-making processes and more effective governance.
Board and executive team diversity, board assessments are likely priorities for investors this year
The job of corporate director continues
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BOARD GOVERNANCE
Board Diversity Outcomes
Diversity on the Board 60 Shareholder proponents remain keenly interested in making the corporate boardroom more diverse—for reasons of both equity and performance. Almost all these resolutions get withdrawn after companies agree
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The women changing California boardrooms
A study by KPMG Board Leadership Center Senior Advisor Annalisa Barrett assesses the early impact of California’s board gender diversity mandate.
Senate Bill 826, California’s law mandating board gender diversity for public companies
...we find that banks with more gender diversity on their board perform better once the composition of these boards reaches a critical level of gender diversity, corresponding to a board female share of around 13-17 percent.
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