Do you shop at Tesco? Did you hear about them falsely overstating their profit by hundreds of millions of pound just to look strong? Or you may hold a bank account with Barclays, but you may not know the quote “if you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying” coming from a Barclay’s trader…
…they say you should never waste a good crisis. Real life examples of corporate scandals and spectacular company failures leave us with valuable lessons and for some, painful cost. It can never go too far to show how business ethics and governance are closely knitted with financial performance!
On Thursday 25 February, we’d like to welcome you to our first technical/networking event of the year – Lessons from Corporate Scandals, the talk will use case studies such as Afren, Olympus, Tesco and Barclays to highlight the importance of ethics, governance and responsibility in today’s business environment.
This event is co-organised by CANUK and TANC at Cass Business School (Bunhill Row London, Greater London EC1Y 8TZ).
Topic: Business Ethics: Lessons from Corporate Scandals.
Delivered by: Ashley Hamilton Claxton from Royal London Asset Management
Ashley Hamilton Claxton oversees Royal London Asset Management’s corporate governance analysis, company engagement and proxy voting. She also conducts environmental and social research and analysis for the banking, construction and property sectors. She writes a regular article for CityWire Wealth Manager on corporate governance and sustainability issues and has been widely quoted in UK national newspapers.
Before joining RLAM, Ashley was a Shareholder Engagement Executive at PIRC where she conducted corporate engagement and analysis for the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF). Prior to that she was a research analyst and corporate engagement consultant for SHARE, a proxy voting and shareholder engagement consultancy based in Vancouver, Canada. She has a Master of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia.
Schedule:
6:00pm – 6:30pm, Registration
6:30pm – 8:00pm, Presentation and Q&A
8:00pm – 9:00pm, Networking
Drinks and snacks will be served, CPD will be available and registration is free!
Please use this link to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/business-ethics-lessons-from-corporate-scandals-tickets-21203091016
Note: if you are also a member of TANC, once registered here, you don’t need to register again via TANC’s email.
