The market is a brutal place these days. And investors are an unforgiving bunch. When it comes to corporate malpractice, a few errors of judgement on behalf of one company and a whole index can plummet. So how should the market distinguish between companies with a good corporate governance regime and those with a governance regime that would embarrass a Latin American dictator
The Asian Corporate Governance Association ACGA has just launched a new service called the ACGA Quick Assessment, to provide companies, insurers and investment managers with a qualitative view on a company's governance regime. According to Jamie Allen, secretary general of the ACGA, the service is designed to assess the...