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The stewardship role of professional advisors. There are so many vital questions prompted by the joint parliamentary select committee report on Carillion. The role of professional advisors is an important issue. I have had experience of being part of the leadership of an … Continue readingCarillion – the Stewardship Role
As a football fan, as well as someone who believes in the human purposes of business, I groaned when I read about FIFA plans for a $25bn dollar investment in a new global club competition. Faced with a choice between planning a high quality … Continue readingMore dollars with which to drown football
In The Case For Reimagining the UK’s Pensions Model, an article in last Friday’s Financial Times, Martin Wolf describes how the pendulum has swung from paternalistic and unaffordable defined pension provision to defined contribution schemes which expose the individual saver to carry the risk. … Continue readingSquaring the pensions circle
An eight trillion dollar investment for stewardship and impact funds could be coming our way – has your financial adviser noticed? According to Gillian Tett in the Financial Times three-quarters of millennials in the USA put a high priority on social goals when they invest compared … Continue readingCould millennials make a multi trillion dollar investment in stewardship and impact funds?
Three separate items of ft.com news today illustrate the gaping hole that exists where the UK’s political parties should be offering their vision and agenda for stewardship to encourage long term wealth creation. First there is all party concern about the Melrose takeover bid … Continue readingPay, Nationalisation and Takeovers: How Our Politics is Failing Wealth Creation
The good news is that Labour has listened to the voice of business, and its employees. It has recognized that customs union membership is the essential platform for supply chain effectiveness, business continuity and future investment in long term wealth creation. Not to mention the … Continue readingCorbyn’s Coventry Speech – the good news and the bad news
Text of a talk given by me in Madrid on 13th January, 2017 to an audience of chairs, CEOs, NEDs, investors and advisors hosted by IC-A (the Spanish Institute of Directors). In 1976 I went walking in the Spanish Pyrenees. As it happens, I … Continue readingThe Future of Capitalism and the Company of Tomorrow
The National, a daily newspaper in the UAE, ran an article looking at Mike Ashley’s Newcastle Utd ownership. It made reference to the Tomorrow’s Company stewardship table which was released in 2009. You can read the article here.
For over 20 years Tomorrow’s Company has been working to create a future for business that makes equal sense to staff, shareholders and society. Today in the UK we have an investment system that is complex, expensive and serves to disconnect shareholder value from … Continue readingStewardship is on the march
On 17th August 2016 Mark Goyder, CEO of Tomorrow’s Company, will be the opening international speaker at the Stewardship Asia roundtable in Singapore. This event brings together the Chairmen and CEOs of major companies and investment institutions from Singapore, China, India, Japan and the whole of SE Asia. … Continue readingThe Stewardship Edge – Roundtable 2016