Fund group CEOs lambasted by MPs over conflict of interest on pay

In a report published earlier this week on top companies' excessive executive pay packages, MPs on parliament's business select committee said asset managers were not doing enough to curtail pay through engagement with the companies they invest in and suggested that high salaries at fund groups were partly to blame. Institutional investors in particular can push for change in the companies they invest in through talking to executives, using their votes and threatening divestment. "In general stewardship is not working as well as it should," the report said. "We do not have confidence ...