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Garnet Roach
Senior reporter

Garnet Roach joined IR Magazine in October 2012, working on both the editorial and research sides of the publication. Prior to entering the world of investor relations, her freelance career covered a broad range of subjects, from technology to politics and consumer finance, and even involved a stint as a reporter and editor in Sana’a, Yemen.
Since graduating from City University in London in 2003, where she studied journalism, Roach has worked as a freelance reporter at titles including GlobalPost.com, PC Advisor and The Big Issue.
Latest articles
A new report on ESG activism in 2022 from Insightia notes that, in the space of a year, support for ESG activism proposals has begun...Read more
– CNBC reported that Tesla violated workers’ rights when it banned shirts with pro-union insignia at the factory, according to a...Read more
Economic opportunities linked to the E in ESG are more easily identifiable to investors as having the potential to drive economic...Read more
September 2022
The pressure for companies to have a public view on everything from George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter movement to ‘don’...Read more
Economic opportunities linked to the E in ESG are more easily identifiable to investors as having the potential to drive economic...Read more
– CNBC reported that Tesla violated workers’ rights when it banned shirts with pro-union insignia at the factory, according to a...Read more
A new report on ESG activism in 2022 from Insightia notes that, in the space of a year, support for ESG activism proposals has begun...Read more
August 2022
As asset owners around the world pledge formal commitments to net-zero, data from Cerulli Associates shows that those in the US are...Read more
A newly launched index tracking off-trend earnings announcements from US companies had a score of 144 for Q2 2022 – higher than the Q1...Read more
‘Companies that invest in their workers and effectively harness the value of their human capital are more likely to be successful over...Read more
Derek Butcher is part of the nine-strong corporate governance and responsible investment team at RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM...Read more
July 2022
As companies grapple with a ‘triple squeeze’ on finances, CEOs and CFOs say investment in M&A and sustainability will be the first...Read more
Almost four in 10 (38 percent) companies globally say they have seen an increase in the number of meetings with investors from outside...Read more
Equities ownership concentration has rapidly increased in recent years, according to new research from MSCI . The research finds that...Read more
May 2022
Companies that gather, use and disclose ‘ investment-grade’ ESG data ‘can expect to be rewarded’ across multiple fronts, according to...Read more
April 2022
When male analysts question female CEOs they are 7.9 percentage points ‘more aggressive’ than when questioning male CEOs. That’s...Read more
‘Governance should be viewed as the means of facing environmental and social risks and opportunities – not as an isolated element.’...Read more
March 2022
Financial institutions including Allianz, Amundi, AXA, BNP Paribas, CalPERS, Capital Group, State Street and Vanguard have begun a...Read more
The 2022 proxy season is a record breaker for ESG proposals, with Michael Passoff, CEO of Proxy Impact and co-author of a new report,...Read more
‘An ESG score does not support the basic principles of ESG investing if it considers risk alone,’ says Doug Peterson, president and...Read more
February 2022
Fifty-eight percent of say-on-climate votes were a one-time affair, according to a new report from index provider MSCI, which warns...Read more
January 2022
Energy sector investors place greater weight on some challenges posed by the new-energy transition than do corporate executives,...Read more
Only at small-cap companies are a minority of shares held by institutional investors, according to findings published in Corporate...Read more
Companies that fail to take a multi-stakeholder approach are missing out on far higher potential returns, according to a new study...Read more
December 2021
Thirty-six percent of investors say they support divestment as a tool against climate change, up from 30 percent before COP26. That’s...Read more
A new pre-screening assessment introduced by Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages Norway’s sovereign wealth fund (...Read more
Of the total number of corporate events currently planned for next year, just 11 percent are slated to be virtual , according to new...Read more
November 2021
Cathy Norbury, co-founder of InterAxS Global, tells Corporate Secretary sister publication IR Magazine that when it comes to corporate...Read more
Almost a quarter (23 percent) of Fortune 100 firms say board evaluation is now an ongoing process and something that happens beyond...Read more
Eighty-six percent of US investors believe companies ‘frequently overstate or exaggerate their ESG progress when disclosing results,’...Read more
October 2021
Almost half (49 percent) of investors say a lack of robust ESG data is ‘holding back’ their organization’s further adoption of ESG,...Read more
August 2021
Matt DiGuiseppe joined Diligent earlier this year to lead its ESG Center of Excellence, having previously been head of Americas asset...Read more
July 2021
A growing number of companies are proactively adopting say-on-climate (SoC) votes, but shareholder advisory firm SquareWell Partners...Read more
May 2021
Among the boom in new retail investors, millennials are the group most likely to vote their proxy in the 2021 season, according to a...Read more
April 2021
Companies are increasingly taking into account the cost of carbon in their business plans, according to new research. CDP says that in...Read more
A recent report on the voting practices and engagement approaches of the world’s 30 largest asset managers around climate change finds...Read more
March 2021
The world’s biggest asset managers are ‘increasingly looking to develop their own proprietary ESG ratings and tools to lessen their...Read more
The largest companies in the US are failing to align their executive compensation with company performance, according to new research...Read more
November 2020
Investor demand is pushing forward the adoption of recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD...Read more
Companies across the US, Canada, continental Europe and the UK had something of a respite from shareholder activism this year. The...Read more
Improved long-term returns and risk mitigation are the key motivators behind ESG integration, with social seen as the most difficult...Read more
October 2020
MOL's Mikkel Skougaard likes to joke that the only people who used to read the sustainability report from cover to cover were him and...Read more
Just over half of US companies – 52 percent – say their off-season engagement activities translate into increased support when it...Read more
Corporate boards are committed to increasing diversity: that’s the message from a new study showing that 81 percent of companies...Read more
July 2019
Almost nine in 10 active managers (87 percent) say shareholder activism is a useful force in the market, according to a new study from...Read more
June 2019
Corporate governance has become an increasingly contradictory conversation. A year after the Hong Kong Stock Exchange finally bowed to...Read more
When Adrienne Monley started in the stewardship arm of Vanguard in 2015, as a leader on the US side, there were around a dozen people...Read more
May 2019
The number of Canadian firms publicly targeted by activist investors in the first quarter of 2019 is down 43 percent on the same...Read more
April 2019
Companies wanting to know what to expect this proxy season should take note of the long-term-focused messages coming from some of the...Read more
Vanguard has announced that its externally managed funds will grant full proxy voting privileges to those outside managers, with the...Read more
March 2019
Gender diversity in small-cap boardrooms is lagging behind that found among the S&P 500, Morningstar states ahead of International...Read more
February 2019
Some of the world’s largest fund managers are nodding through excessive pay packages, according to research from As You Sow – though...Read more
More than half (53 percent) of investors say board diversity is top of mind going into this year’s proxy season, according to the 2019...Read more
Nasdaq has filed a proposal with the SEC for a rule change that would allow direct listings without an IPO. The move comes amid...Read more
October 2018
There has been a 10 percentage-point increase in institutional investor support for shareholder proposals focused on environmental and...Read more
April 2018
'I don’t know who put ESG together, but it makes no sense,’ says Mikkel Skougaard, group sustainable development senior expert – and...Read more
Companies in the US have increased face-to-face contact with investors by 26 percent in year-on-year numbers across 2017, according to...Read more
March 2018
Increasing numbers of small-cap companies in the US are considering commissioning research in an effort to offset any negative impact...Read more
Alexandra Higgins has joined proxy solicitation firm Okapi Partners as managing director, with a focus on governance and compensation...Read more
February 2018
The rise of shareholder activism is pushing companies to seek out more information on their shareholder base, according to proxy...Read more
November 2017
Transparency is improving and companies in the FTSE 100 are on target to meet the voluntary goal of 33 percent female board...Read more
August 2017
The top 200 companies in India by market cap are increasingly improving both corporate governance and voluntary disclosure, according...Read more
July 2017
Shareholder activists renewed their appetite for US large caps in the first half of the year, with almost a third of companies...Read more
June 2017
The 2017 proxy season has seen trends such as diversity and gender pay gaps emerging as key themes and calls for non-voting shares to...Read more
April 2017
New research from the EY Center for Board Matters shows progress is being made when it comes to sourcing a diverse range of...Read more
March 2017
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), composed of Canada’s 13 securities regulators, has issued guidance advising companies...Read more
January 2017
With 48 campaigns during 2016 – on both the activist side and the defense – proxy solicitor Okapi Partners topped Activist Insight’s...Read more
September 2016
In an effort to increase its investor access, Jimmy Choo, a footwear and accessory label, hosted a virtual AGM earlier this year. The...Read more
July 2016
A total of 463 companies worldwide were the subject of activist demands in the first half of 2016, according to the half-year review...Read more
June 2016
‘I think the US is becoming more comfortable with a more open, more transparent and more communications-based relationship with...Read more
At a glance What is good governance? From pay ratios to proxy access, the focus on corporate governance has been stronger than ever...Read more
‘Results from the first part of the 2016 proxy season and overall corporate governance trends continue to point to the need for...Read more
May 2016
Consultancy Sodali has acquired Morrow & Co to create Morrow Sodali Global, a global firm with more than 600 clients across 30...Read more
Shareholder activists targeted 349 companies worldwide in the first five months of the year, according to new data from Activist...Read more
April 2016
‘We want to understand what the key factors are that change a company’s [corporate governance] rating within our model from E to A,’...Read more
February 2015
As investor activism campaigns have become more commonplace – and better publicized – an increasing number of companies are running...Read more
October 2013
Citigroup is set to pay a $30 million fine after one of its Taiwan unit analysts improperly shared non-public information with major...Read more
May 2013
Investors seeking to divide the roles of chairman and CEO at JPMorgan – both currently held by Jamie Dimon – will no longer receive...Read more
September 2022
The pressure for companies to have a public view on everything from George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter movement to ‘don’...Read more
Economic opportunities linked to the E in ESG are more easily identifiable to investors as having the potential to drive economic...Read more
– CNBC reported that Tesla violated workers’ rights when it banned shirts with pro-union insignia at the factory, according to a...Read more
A new report on ESG activism in 2022 from Insightia notes that, in the space of a year, support for ESG activism proposals has begun...Read more
August 2022
As asset owners around the world pledge formal commitments to net-zero, data from Cerulli Associates shows that those in the US are...Read more
A newly launched index tracking off-trend earnings announcements from US companies had a score of 144 for Q2 2022 – higher than the Q1...Read more
‘Companies that invest in their workers and effectively harness the value of their human capital are more likely to be successful over...Read more
Derek Butcher is part of the nine-strong corporate governance and responsible investment team at RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM...Read more
July 2022
As companies grapple with a ‘triple squeeze’ on finances, CEOs and CFOs say investment in M&A and sustainability will be the first...Read more
Almost four in 10 (38 percent) companies globally say they have seen an increase in the number of meetings with investors from outside...Read more
Equities ownership concentration has rapidly increased in recent years, according to new research from MSCI . The research finds that...Read more
May 2022
Companies that gather, use and disclose ‘ investment-grade’ ESG data ‘can expect to be rewarded’ across multiple fronts, according to...Read more
April 2022
When male analysts question female CEOs they are 7.9 percentage points ‘more aggressive’ than when questioning male CEOs. That’s...Read more
‘Governance should be viewed as the means of facing environmental and social risks and opportunities – not as an isolated element.’...Read more
March 2022
Financial institutions including Allianz, Amundi, AXA, BNP Paribas, CalPERS, Capital Group, State Street and Vanguard have begun a...Read more
The 2022 proxy season is a record breaker for ESG proposals, with Michael Passoff, CEO of Proxy Impact and co-author of a new report,...Read more
‘An ESG score does not support the basic principles of ESG investing if it considers risk alone,’ says Doug Peterson, president and...Read more
February 2022
Fifty-eight percent of say-on-climate votes were a one-time affair, according to a new report from index provider MSCI, which warns...Read more
January 2022
Energy sector investors place greater weight on some challenges posed by the new-energy transition than do corporate executives,...Read more
Only at small-cap companies are a minority of shares held by institutional investors, according to findings published in Corporate...Read more
Companies that fail to take a multi-stakeholder approach are missing out on far higher potential returns, according to a new study...Read more
December 2021
Thirty-six percent of investors say they support divestment as a tool against climate change, up from 30 percent before COP26. That’s...Read more
A new pre-screening assessment introduced by Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages Norway’s sovereign wealth fund (...Read more
Of the total number of corporate events currently planned for next year, just 11 percent are slated to be virtual , according to new...Read more
November 2021
Cathy Norbury, co-founder of InterAxS Global, tells Corporate Secretary sister publication IR Magazine that when it comes to corporate...Read more
Almost a quarter (23 percent) of Fortune 100 firms say board evaluation is now an ongoing process and something that happens beyond...Read more
Eighty-six percent of US investors believe companies ‘frequently overstate or exaggerate their ESG progress when disclosing results,’...Read more
October 2021
Almost half (49 percent) of investors say a lack of robust ESG data is ‘holding back’ their organization’s further adoption of ESG,...Read more
August 2021
Matt DiGuiseppe joined Diligent earlier this year to lead its ESG Center of Excellence, having previously been head of Americas asset...Read more
July 2021
A growing number of companies are proactively adopting say-on-climate (SoC) votes, but shareholder advisory firm SquareWell Partners...Read more
May 2021
Among the boom in new retail investors, millennials are the group most likely to vote their proxy in the 2021 season, according to a...Read more
April 2021
Companies are increasingly taking into account the cost of carbon in their business plans, according to new research. CDP says that in...Read more
A recent report on the voting practices and engagement approaches of the world’s 30 largest asset managers around climate change finds...Read more
March 2021
The world’s biggest asset managers are ‘increasingly looking to develop their own proprietary ESG ratings and tools to lessen their...Read more
The largest companies in the US are failing to align their executive compensation with company performance, according to new research...Read more
November 2020
Investor demand is pushing forward the adoption of recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD...Read more
Companies across the US, Canada, continental Europe and the UK had something of a respite from shareholder activism this year. The...Read more
Improved long-term returns and risk mitigation are the key motivators behind ESG integration, with social seen as the most difficult...Read more
October 2020
MOL's Mikkel Skougaard likes to joke that the only people who used to read the sustainability report from cover to cover were him and...Read more
Just over half of US companies – 52 percent – say their off-season engagement activities translate into increased support when it...Read more
Corporate boards are committed to increasing diversity: that’s the message from a new study showing that 81 percent of companies...Read more
July 2019
Almost nine in 10 active managers (87 percent) say shareholder activism is a useful force in the market, according to a new study from...Read more
June 2019
Corporate governance has become an increasingly contradictory conversation. A year after the Hong Kong Stock Exchange finally bowed to...Read more
When Adrienne Monley started in the stewardship arm of Vanguard in 2015, as a leader on the US side, there were around a dozen people...Read more
May 2019
The number of Canadian firms publicly targeted by activist investors in the first quarter of 2019 is down 43 percent on the same...Read more
April 2019
Companies wanting to know what to expect this proxy season should take note of the long-term-focused messages coming from some of the...Read more
Vanguard has announced that its externally managed funds will grant full proxy voting privileges to those outside managers, with the...Read more
March 2019
Gender diversity in small-cap boardrooms is lagging behind that found among the S&P 500, Morningstar states ahead of International...Read more
February 2019
Some of the world’s largest fund managers are nodding through excessive pay packages, according to research from As You Sow – though...Read more
More than half (53 percent) of investors say board diversity is top of mind going into this year’s proxy season, according to the 2019...Read more
Nasdaq has filed a proposal with the SEC for a rule change that would allow direct listings without an IPO. The move comes amid...Read more
October 2018
There has been a 10 percentage-point increase in institutional investor support for shareholder proposals focused on environmental and...Read more
April 2018
'I don’t know who put ESG together, but it makes no sense,’ says Mikkel Skougaard, group sustainable development senior expert – and...Read more
Companies in the US have increased face-to-face contact with investors by 26 percent in year-on-year numbers across 2017, according to...Read more
March 2018
Increasing numbers of small-cap companies in the US are considering commissioning research in an effort to offset any negative impact...Read more
Alexandra Higgins has joined proxy solicitation firm Okapi Partners as managing director, with a focus on governance and compensation...Read more
February 2018
The rise of shareholder activism is pushing companies to seek out more information on their shareholder base, according to proxy...Read more
November 2017
Transparency is improving and companies in the FTSE 100 are on target to meet the voluntary goal of 33 percent female board...Read more
August 2017
The top 200 companies in India by market cap are increasingly improving both corporate governance and voluntary disclosure, according...Read more
July 2017
Shareholder activists renewed their appetite for US large caps in the first half of the year, with almost a third of companies...Read more
June 2017
The 2017 proxy season has seen trends such as diversity and gender pay gaps emerging as key themes and calls for non-voting shares to...Read more
April 2017
New research from the EY Center for Board Matters shows progress is being made when it comes to sourcing a diverse range of...Read more
March 2017
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), composed of Canada’s 13 securities regulators, has issued guidance advising companies...Read more
January 2017
With 48 campaigns during 2016 – on both the activist side and the defense – proxy solicitor Okapi Partners topped Activist Insight’s...Read more
September 2016
In an effort to increase its investor access, Jimmy Choo, a footwear and accessory label, hosted a virtual AGM earlier this year. The...Read more
July 2016
A total of 463 companies worldwide were the subject of activist demands in the first half of 2016, according to the half-year review...Read more
June 2016
‘I think the US is becoming more comfortable with a more open, more transparent and more communications-based relationship with...Read more
At a glance What is good governance? From pay ratios to proxy access, the focus on corporate governance has been stronger than ever...Read more
‘Results from the first part of the 2016 proxy season and overall corporate governance trends continue to point to the need for...Read more
May 2016
Consultancy Sodali has acquired Morrow & Co to create Morrow Sodali Global, a global firm with more than 600 clients across 30...Read more
Shareholder activists targeted 349 companies worldwide in the first five months of the year, according to new data from Activist...Read more
April 2016
‘We want to understand what the key factors are that change a company’s [corporate governance] rating within our model from E to A,’...Read more
February 2015
As investor activism campaigns have become more commonplace – and better publicized – an increasing number of companies are running...Read more
October 2013
Citigroup is set to pay a $30 million fine after one of its Taiwan unit analysts improperly shared non-public information with major...Read more
May 2013
Investors seeking to divide the roles of chairman and CEO at JPMorgan – both currently held by Jamie Dimon – will no longer receive...Read more