Digital Meeting: 6 July 2023, 2:00pm
Service Provider Oversight is an important area of responsibility for fund boards but is increasingly competing for airtime in board meetings with a whole host of other governance topics.
Since the start of 2023, FBC has been conducting detailed research looking at the role of fund boards in service provider selection and oversight, how well understood this important area of governance is outside of those with direct executive responsibility for service providers and exploring how fund boards can leverage their service providers to provide additional insights and data to support effective decision-making.
In this Digital Meeting, FBC senior adviser, Peter Christmas set out the key findings from the research and discussed the key challenges and questions that directors should be asking when it comes to effective service provider oversight.
Contributors
Peter has over 35 years’ experience working in the asset servicing industry, including spells in the Far East and USA, with a broad expertise of the financial services landscape across a number of sectors globally, including significant experience with asset managers, wealth managers and investment banks. In his executive career, Peter specialised in senior client facing roles, including managing director positions at Pershing and Standard Chartered Bank. Most recently he was Head of Client Management and Business Development at NatWest Trustee and Depository Services.
Peter has a B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering and spent the first years of his career working in Systems Development roles in Government and Finance. He also holds the IMC Part 1 and 2 qualification as well as the Certificate in ESG Investing from the CFA.
Catherine Battershill has over 15 years of experience in asset management in Europe and Asia. Prior to the founding of Fund Boards Council (FBC), Catherine led major marketing and communications initiatives across major institutional and wholesale retail markets. She spearheaded a myriad of campaigns, including the development of an international thought-leadership programme for a leading multi-national asset manager.
Catherine has held voluntary board roles in education and a children’s charity, through which she has developed a strong interest in governance topics. This, combined with her asset management background, led her to join Shiv in setting up FBC.
