GO Objectives

Governance for Owners (GO) is dedicated to adding long-term shareholder value to clients' equity holdings through relational investing and active ownership, including exercising owners' rights.

 

In support of this, GO's objectives are to:

1. Build a partnership between global financial institutions and experienced professionals from the worlds of business and investment management to address value-oriented business issues at quoted companies internationally;
2. Apply proven principles of relational engagement within a sound governance framework to generate long-term value in underperforming companies;
3. Help investors fulfil their responsibilities as long-term share owners in relation to matters of governance, including social and environmental matters, and performance of investee companies;
4. Develop relationships with all the world’s major institutional investors and work with them on programmes to generate long-term value;
5. Protect and improve the rights of share owners;
6. Be a client-focused and service-oriented organisation; 
7. Develop its people as leaders in share owner engagement, corporate governance and relational investing through providing opportunities for professional and personal achievement and formal and on-the-job training;
8. Assemble a team of non-executives and advisors of outstanding ability and reputation to work with the executive team to realise our commitment to the highest standards of self-governance, both in its conduct of share owner engagements and in its own operations;
9. Have an independent ownership structure that can deliver a service free from the conflicts of interest so often prevalent in the financial services industry; and
10. Be recognised as a genuine partnership, which aligns the interests of clients, investors and executives.