Welcome to the ICGN

The ICGN is a global membership organisation of over 500 leaders in corporate governance based in 50 countries with a mission to raise standards of corporate governance worldwide. We invite you to join the ICGN and share your experiences, knowledge and expertise with fellow decision-makers in corporate governance from around the world.

ICGN members are largely institutional investors who collectively represent funds under management of around US$9.5 trillion. The breadth and expertise of ICGN members from investment, business, the professions and policymaking extends across global capital markets.

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Financial Sustainability: restoring market stability, corporate value and public trust

San Francisco, USA, 6 - 7 October

The ICGN autumn conference will be taking place on 6 - 7 October in San Francisco and is hosted by CalPERS and CalSTRS. UN PRI is one of our conference partners for this event. They are holding their annual conference immediately before the ICGN Conference on 5 – 6 October. On the evening of 6 October ICGN and UNPRI are hosting a joint Welcome Reception.

This conference will unravel the complexities facing the US financial system today and seeks to identify solutions to help ensure long-term sustainability and growth. It will also highlight international corporate governance trends since the global financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent recession. Over 250 ICGN Members and Speakers will bring a global perspective to the debate from some of the largest investment houses and corporations in the world.

Keynote speakers include:

• Philip Angelides, Chairman, US Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
• Lord John McFall, Former Chairman, House of Commons Treasury Select Committee and Member of the Future of Banking Commission, UK

Confirmed speakers include:

• Ann Byrne, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Council of Super Investors
• Scott Evans, President & CEO of TIAA-CREF Investment Management, USA
• Abe Friedman, Managing Director, Global Head of Corporate
• Governance & Responsible Investment, BlackRock, USA
• Rob Lake, Head of Sustainability, APG, The Netherlands
• Professor Jay Lorsch, Harvard Business School
• Donald MacDonald, Trustee of the BT Pension Fund & Chairman, Principles for Responsible Investment
• John Seethoff, Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft, USA
• Anne Sheehan, Director of Corporate Governance, CalSTRS, USA
• Anne Stausboll, Chief Executive Officer, CalPERS, USA

Click here to see the agenda and to register on line

To find out more about this conference contact Tina Chande, Head of Events, at tina.chande@icgn.org.

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ICGN and the G20 Leaders Summit: role of shareholders in restoring stability

Ahead of the Leaders’ Summit of G20 nations in Toronto, the ICGN activelyconveyed its message that improved standards and practice of corporate governance should be fully integrated into the remedies applied to the resolution of the global financial crisis. Furthermore itstrongly encouraged G20 Leaders to recognise the integral role the investment community plays in the effective functioning of capital markets and in helping to ensure long-term sustainability and growth.

Click here to view the letter to the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Click here to view the letter to the Korean Prime Minister Chung Un-Chan
Click here to view the G20 2010 Press Release “Shareholders Call for Strengthened Rights in Financial Market Reform”

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ICGN Weighs in on the Fight for Shareholder Rights in the US

In efforts to support the institutional shareholder community in the US, last week the ICGN actively engaged with the White House regarding two fundamental rights under threat: majority voting and shareholder access to the proxy.  
 
Click here to view letter re Majority Voting
Click here to view letter re Proxy Access
Click here to view Press Release

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ICGN Opens Toronto Stock Exchange

The ICGN opened the Toronto Stock Exchange on the 7th June ahead of the 2010 ICGN Annual Conference. The Canadian Minister of Finance, Jim Flaherty, gave the opening keynote address at the conference which focuses on changing global balances in the world economy following the financial crisis of 2008 and the "Great Recession" of 2009. To see the Stock Exchange Opening on YouTube, click here.

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2010 ICGN Annual Conference

The Changing Global Balances

The 2010 ICGN Annual Conference took place in Toronto, Canada between 7-9 June and was hosted by the Teachers’ Pension Plan and the CPP Investment Board. Keynote speakers included Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance for Canada; Lucian Bebchuk, Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance Director, Program on Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School; Lowell Bryan, Director (Senior Partner), McKinsey & Company, USA. Conference speeches will be posted in due course where available.

Click here for a transcript of the Minister’s Speech.

Click here to view press coverage of the event.

Click here to view delegate tweets.