Long Governance: Is Reform Still Needed?
Symposium
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Generously hosted by Grant Thornton.
Welcome: Sterl Greenhalgh (Partner, Grant Thornton)
Introduction (download presentation): Professor Michael Mainelli (Director, Z/Yen Group Limited)
Talk: Long Governance: What's Missing? (download presentation), Paul Moxey (Head of Corporate Governance and Risk Management, ACCA)
Despite 20 years of rapid evolution in governance and in risk management, the credit scrunch demonstrated yet more examples of failure in what had hitherto been believed to be well governed institutions with leading edge risk management. So what is going on? Is there a fundamental problem with corporate governance and risk management as we currently know it? Will the new Stewardship Code make a difference? What more can institutional investors do to ensure companies are governed for the long term and investee boards properly manage risk?
Discussion: What needs to change?
Talk: Long Governance: Where's The Incentive? (download presentation), Eoin McCarthy (Quakers and Business)
The behaviour of directors and investors is key to the long term success of any company. In financial services, regulation exerts a particularly strong influence on that behaviour and the consequences can be both surprising and unwelcome. The Basel framework unwittingly created incentives for the massive build up in leverage and credit boom. This contributed to prosperity for many but, as we now know, was not sustainable and had massive social cost. This session will explore how directors and investors can be more wary of how incentives, particularly where triggered by regulation, affect behaviour and how to balance short-term benefits against long term costs.
Discussion: Where's the incentive for long governance?
Speakers
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Paul Moxey
Head of Corporate Governance and Risk Management
ACCA
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Frank Curtiss
Head of Corporate Governance
Railpen Investments
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Andrew Kakabadse
Professor of International Management Development
Cranfield University, School of Management
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John Kay
Economist and author of “The Long and Short of It”, 2009
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Eoin McCarthy
Quakers and Business
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Sean Tully
Managing Director, WestLB Debt Markets and co-author of "Restoring Confidence in the Financial System: See-Through-Leverage: A powerful new tool for revealing and managing risk”, 2010
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Professor Michael Mainelli
Director
Z/Yen Group Limited
