Profile interview – Phil Wagstaff, Fund Board Chair, Jupiter Asset Management
In a career spanning over three-and-a half decades, Phil Wagstaff’s iNED ‘portfolio’ career is getting off to a solid start, but make no mistake, Phil knows his way around a fund manager’s boardroom better than most.
Digging into the data: new FBC report examines key considerations for fund boards’ oversight of service providers
Service provider oversight is an important area of responsibility for fund boards, but one which competes for airtime in board meetings with a growing list of governance topics.
Viewpoint: Sheila Nicoll – EU Retail Investment Package
In the financial services regulatory world many of us are getting to grips with the reality of parallel universes. Post-Brexit, as we cross the Channel, we find ourselves having conversations and discussions which are, at least initially, strikingly similar but then go off in oddly different directions.
Harnessing AI to create efficiencies in the board minute process
FBC’s schedule of digital discussions for autumn 2023 kicked off with a Digital Workshop for company secretaries looking the opportunities and challenges of using Large Language Models (LLMs), a form of Generative AI, for producing board minutes.
Fortnightly News Blog – 19 September 2023
Curating news and analysis for the fortnight ending 19 September 2023.
Fortnightly News Blog – 5 September 2023
Curating news and analysis for the fortnight ending 5 September 2023.
FBC Digital Event: New FBC research in Risk Management
Vicky Kubitscheck, fund board Non-Executive Director and Board Adviser, joined FBC senior advisers, Brandon Horwitz and Peter Christmas, for this risk management member event, including the first look at new FBC research findings.
Consumer Duty: Fund Governance and the Role of the CD Champion
Over the next year, FBC plans to address the specific implications of Consumer Duty on fund board governance and the role of Consumer Duty champions, many of whom are fund board directors.
FBC Digital Workshop: Harnessing AI to enhance fund board effectiveness (Luxembourg focus)
With the rapid increase in interest and usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI), we are hosting a Luxembourg focused digital event to help FBC members and select invited guests with an introduction to its relevance to and potential use in fund board effectiveness and administration.
FBC Digital Meeting: FCA’s AoV Multi-firm Review
Moderated by FBC CEO Shiv Taneja, this hour-long webinar for FBC corporate members and invited guests will focus on the second FCA multi-firm review of firms’ Assessment of Value reports and also cover key messages from FBC’s recently released AoV impact study.