Author Archives: Tim Purcell

Aviva Investors, one of the City of London’s largest asset managers, this week became the latest to announce a re-structuring of its socially responsible investing (SRI) and corporate governance teams. Both are to be disbanded. Aviva has announced that instead … Continue reading

Tim, Hayley and Roger would like to wish our clients and visitors to our website a happy holiday period between now and the end of the year. CO3 will be contactable throughout this time by telephone (see details below) or email. … Continue reading

The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced earlier this week that it has created a “whistleblowing” hotline called SFO Confidential to help it address suspect business practices and to ensure that companies are adhering to the requirements of the UK … Continue reading

Yesterday’s announcement from FTSE concerning the entry rules to indices such as the FTSE100 and FTSEAllShare attracted the expected criticism from some parts of the investment community. The company reported that it was raising the so-called “free float” threshold from … Continue reading

Further evidence of institutional pressure on UK listed companies to improve boardroom diversity is reported in The Times this morning. Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM), which owns an average of 3% of every UK listed company, is revealed to … Continue reading

The FT has reported today that the 30% Club, a lobby group formed over a year ago by the Chairmen of some of the largest UK companies to press listed companies to put more women on their boards, has formed … Continue reading

The worldwide reputation of the City of London as an efficient, effective and reliable capital markets centre is a prized national asset which has survived numerous shocks to the system over the years. The latest of these, which was of … Continue reading

Evidence of further pressure on FTSE350 companies to adopt the recommendations of the Davies Report and address wider boardroom diversity issues emerged this week. A progress report published by the Cranfield School of Management on Wednesday showed an increase of … Continue reading

This is a sneak preview of something I’ve been asked to write for a business magazine about CSR. The standpoint was “no one believes what companies say about their CSR credentials” so why should they bother. Needless to say we … Continue reading

In our line of work one of the things that happens quite often is that we get approached to participate in conferences. We do occasionally do this when we think that we can add something meaningful and useful (our recent … Continue reading