2pm – Registration & Refreshments followed by welcome by Catherine Battershill, FBC Managing Director, and opening remarks by Nick Trueman, Fund Board Chair and Head of Distribution EMEA at T Rowe Price.
Session 1
- Keynote from Camille Blackburn, FCA Director Wholesale Buy-Side, and Q&A facilitated by FBC CEO Shiv Taneja.
Session 2
- Responsible Investment/ESG; fund board and iNED oversight accountabilities. With anti-greenwashing regulations about to come into force at the end of May 2024, this session will explore the involvement that fund boards have in setting ESG policy and overseeing fund performance against RI objectives. It will also explore iNEDs roles’ in ESG oversight and expectations in how this will develop.
Session 3
- Panel discussion focusing on previous sessions, chaired by FBC Senior Adviser, Brandon Horwitz and open to the floor.
Shiv Taneja will make closing remarks.
Contributors
Camille joined the FCA as Director of Wholesale Buy-Side in October 2022. Most recently she worked at Legal & General Investment Management where she was Chief Compliance Officer and was responsible for the company’s global compliance framework and team. Before that she was Chief Compliance Officer at Aviva Investors and was Chair of the Investment Association’s Brexit Committee. She has held international chief compliance officer roles in investment banking and money services businesses.
Camille has held senior policy roles at the Central Bank of Ireland and for the Australian Government. She was a Principal Advisor to the Australian Treasury on the 2014 Australian Financial System Inquiry and the 2016 Capability Review of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. During the financial crisis she was the Head of Investment Banking at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
John is an independent non-executive director of T. Rowe Price UK Limited. He is also a trustee of the Mineworkers Pension Scheme and he sits on investment committees at both the King’s Fund and Aviva Life & Pensions. John worked for 24 years at Schroders Investment Management, including in a variety of senior roles, before retiring in 2017. He holds an M.A. from the National University of Ireland and a D. Phil. from Oxford University, both in mathematical physics.
