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Guidelines

IVIS monitoring is based on the various ABI guidelines, guidance papers, and the FRC's Combined Code.  

Introduction
The dates which appear next to a particular paper or guideline show when they were published. The ABI Investment Committee reviews all guidelines from time-to-time in order to ensure they remain relevant and are updated where appropriate.
  
Readers should be aware that a number of institutional investors in the UK and elsewhere have produced their own corporate governance guidelines.
1. Executive Compensation and Share Based Remuneration
2. Corporate Governance
3. Share Capital Management
4. Pre-Emption Group Guidelines
5. Additional Items
6. Institutional Shareholders Committee Documents (ISC)
7. Corporate Responsibility
8. Archived Files


1. Executive Compensation and Share Based Remuneration
These are the main guidelines relating to remuneration which are updated on an annual basis. They are split into three sections relating to over-arching Principles, Main Provisions and more detailed Guidance. Under the Principles, issues covered include remuneration committees and their responsibilities, guidance for base pay, bonuses, pensions and contracts & severance, and guidance for share-based incentive schemes. The joint ABI/NAPF statement on contracts and severance can be found under Additional Items.

1 Executive Remuneration - ABI Guidelines on Policies and PracticesDecember 2009
2 Executive Remuneration - ABI Position PaperDecember 2009
See section 8 - Archived Files 
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2. Corporate Governance
This section includes guidance on responsible voting, the role and duties of directors, the responsibilities of institutional shareholders and articles of association. Also, in the role and duties of directors you will find further guidance on the Board of Directors, their appointment and removal, their duty to employees and borrowing powers. Other relevant papers can be found under Institutional Shareholders Committee Documents.

1 Responsible Voting - A joint ABI - NAPF StatementJuly 1999
2 Role and Duties of Directors - A Discussion PaperJune 1990
3 The Responsibilities of Institutional Shareholders - A Discussion PaperMarch 1991
4 Companies Act and Articles of Association GuidanceOctober 2009
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3. Share Capital Management
Areas covered include resolutions authorising allotment of shares, and disapplication of pre-emption rights, own share purchase authorities, scrip dividends, and the treatment of vendor placings. View the Pre-Emption Group Guidelines.

1 Directors' Power to Allot SharesNovember 2009
2 Own Share PurchaseNovember 2009
3 Scrip DividendsApril 1997
4 Shareholders' Pre-emption Rights and Vendor PlacingsAugust 1993
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4. Pre-Emption Group Guidelines
These guidelines set out the position of the Pre-Emption Group on the use of pre-emption rights.  

1 Disapplying Pre-emption Rights - A Statement of PrinciplesJuly 2008
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 5. Additional Items
Included in this section are joint ABI/NAPF statements about pre-emption and underwriting, and contracts and severance. In addition, you will find a commentary on developments in property mortgage debenture stocks, a report from the ABI working party on the landlord and tenant act, and guidance relating to contingent dealing by companies in their own shares.

1 ABI/NAPF - Pre-emption and UnderwritingJuly 1996
2 Property Mortgage Debenture Stocks - A Commentary on Recent DevelopmentsJanuary 1994
3 Report of the ABI Working Party on the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995January 1996
4 Contingent Dealings by Companies in their own SharesApril 2005
5 Joint Statement on Executive Contracts and Severance by the ABI and NAPF February 2008
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6. Institutional Shareholders Committee Documents (ISC)
The ISC comprises the ABI, AIC, IMA, and the NAPF. Documents in this section include the statement of principles on the responsibilities of institutional shareholders (a framework for voting disclosure). Other documents which relate to the roles and duties of directors, disclosures relating to R&D expenditure, management buyouts and the responsibilities of institutional shareholders in the UK.
  
1 Code on the Responsibilities of Institutional InvestorsNovember 2009
2 Statement of PrinciplesJune 2007
3 Role and Duties of Directors - A Statement of Best PracticeAugust 1993
4 The Responsibility of Institutional Shareholders in the UKDecember 1991
5 Suggested Disclosure of Research and Development ExpenditureApril 1992
6 Management Buy-OutsDecember 1989
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7. Social Responsibility
Latest guidelines on responsible investment disclosure and developments in narrative reporting.

1 ABI Guidelines on Responsible Investment DisclosureJanuary 2007
2 Developments in Narrative Reporting - An ABI Position PaperNovember 2006
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8. Archived Files
Listing of documents and guidelines which have been superseded but which may be of interest or relevance.

1 Share Incentive Schemes - A Statement of PrinciplesJune 1999
- Guideline Principles - Interpretation and Application 
2 Share Option and Profit Sharing Incentive SchemesFebruary 1995
3 Long Term Remuneration for Senior Executives (Including Note of Emerging Good Practice)May 1996
4 ABI/NAPF Joint StatementJuly 1993
5 Pre-emption Group GuidelinesOctober 1987
6 Pre-emption 1October 1987
7 Pre-emption 2October 1987
8 Statement of PrinciplesSept 2005
- Review of the Statement of PrinciplesSept 2005
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