Digesting the FCA’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements
FBC hosted a discussion of the FCA’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements consultation (CP22/20) on 1 November 2022, including a presentation by Mark Manning, the FCA’s lead on policy work relating to sustainable finance and investor stewardship.
Letter from Luxembourg – December 2022
Sheenagh Gordon-Hart, Independent Director at The Director’s Office
As we approach the end of 2022, we must all hope that a new year will herald an improved outlook both in the economy and and geo-politically.
Summary Agenda for 2023
Fund Boards Council (FBC) is a professional members organisation dedicated to supporting the governance work of fund boards in the UK and internationally. As the only organisation in the UK exclusively dedicated to fund governance, FBC’s work with boards and the executive teams that support them is focussed in two main areas: Fund Board Governance […]
The FBC Report: Fund Board Purpose
The Fund Boards Council (FBC) Report: Fund Board Purpose
The Evolving Role of the Fund Board
Letter from Hong Kong: Aldcroft’s Asia
When I first started writing letters from Hong Kong some 37 years ago, soon after I arrived in Hong Kong to work, it was to family in the UK and sent by air mail, take 8 to 10 days to arrive and would reflect a Hong Kong life in the latter stages of a colonial era that existed in the 1980s.
Letter from Luxembourg
Sheenagh Gordon-Hart, Independent Director at The Director’s Office
This quarter, Sheenagh Gordon-Hart provides the latest on doing business in the established fund domicile of Luxembourg with a look at the new ILA paper on independence on boards.
Viewpoint: by Wayne Green
Consumer Duty is not just new regulation requiring some paperwork. It will be as substantial in its implementation as it is in its scope. It represents a continued shift towards an outcomes-based approach to regulation and a drive toward a culture of “consumer first”.
Helping with rehoming under the Homes for Ukraine scheme
Fiona Evans, director, head of operations, FBC
Distribution oversight
The role and purpose of fund boards was under the microscope earlier in June when Fund Boards Council kicked off a new research initiative exploring the evolving work of the fund board and the steps boards are taking to ensure wider stakeholder understanding of their role and purpose.
Letter from Luxembourg
Peter Christmas has joined Fund Boards Council (FBC) as a Senior Adviser.
With his strong commercial background and deep industry expertise in asset servicing, Peter will add an important dimension to the work that FBC does with its key consitutency of funds board directors in the UK and across Europe.