GO Objectives

Governance for Owners aims 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
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. Assemble a team of non-executives and advisors of outstanding ability and reputation to work with the executive team to realise Governance for Owners’ commitment to the highest standards of self-governance, both in its conduct of share owner engagements and in its own operations
7. Have an independent ownership structure that can deliver a service free from the conlicts of interest so often prevalent in the inancial services industry
8. Be recognised as a genuine partnership, which aligns the interests of clients, investors and executives.