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Tomorrow's Company has a wealth of experience in looking at the financial markets.  Past publications such as Tomorrow's Global Company and Restoring Trust have set out what a robust financial system would be.
 
Currently Tomorrow's Company is debating how we can get to such a system from the crisis that has enveloped the financial world.  This issue is designed to show the public our line of thinking and includes debate pieces, thought leadership and articles.  We welcome comments from all.

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posted by Mark  on July 14, 2008
Something is happening to ownership. Does it matter?  I believe that it does. The way companies behave will shape the health of our society. It is likely – although not inevitable – that the way companies are owned will shape how they behave. Companies are unlikely to get far as a force for good if their owners don’t like the idea! That is why Tomorrow’s Company is exploring the question “What is happening to ownership?”. What do you think?
     

Issue(s): Why we need Force for Good companies , Global Financial Crisis

Tag(s): ContractForDifference , M&B , Ownership , test
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posted by Admin  on July 29, 2010
 The 2007-2009 financial crisis was a perfect "black swan" event: unexpected, a rarity, with broad and deep impacts; and, with the benefit of hindsight, it was also retrospectively rationalised by many "experts". We got it all "sensationally" wrong: bankers (like myself), policy-makers, supervisors, auditors, research analysts, economists, civil society itself. And even as the crisis was unfolding, many initially did not consider its seriousness. We saw dangers of shocks, but underestimated the confluence and impact thereof.  
     

Issue(s): Embedding Values , Sustainability , Global Financial Crisis , Responsible Investment
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posted by Admin  on June 19, 2008
Date: July 2007A snapshot on how the Principles for Responsible Investment came about, and views of leading thinkers in the field of sustainable finance and responsible investment.
     

Issue(s): Redefining Success - beyond accounting , Embedding Values , Creating Frameworks , How to be a Force for Good company , Global Financial Crisis

Tag(s): ResponsibleInvestment , SustainableFinance
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posted by Admin  on February 3, 2009
This article is the transcript of a speech given by Joe Garner, Group General Manager PFS at HSBC.  It talks about how important trust is to the financial sector and how it can be gained or lost.
     

Issue(s): Global Financial Crisis

Tag(s): JoeGarner
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posted by Admin  on November 13, 2008
The affordability of pensions and how they are to be funded must be looked at in the light of the nation’s long-term economic and social objectives.  In this context, the terms ‘support’ and ‘dependence’ are used and measured in an unhelpful way that incorrectly assumes a one-way relationship.  The elderly are depicted as dependent ‘takers’, but they also support the economy and society through paying taxes and voluntary activities. Instead of looking at the ‘old age support ratio’ policymakers should focus on the ‘total economic support ratio’, which relates the number of people who are working to the numbers not working.  This was 0.48 in 2003 and is projected to decline to 0.45 by 2041.  At this point it will be almost the same as it was in 1961.
     

Issue(s): Redefining Success - beyond accounting , Creating Frameworks , Global Financial Crisis

Tag(s): PastPublications , Tomorrow'sCompany

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Global Financial Crisis and India
If we think of the situation of developing countries during the global financial meltdown, we find that some developing countries like India & China were not very badly affected by the storm of global financial crisis. Hige degree of regunalions & norms, tighten monetery policy laid by the governments put the picture of these countries in altogether different flying colors on the global map. Reserve Bank of India is actually considered to be the best central bank of the world.
There is a very strong system and norms led by the governments of india and it is coming as an emerging market and the whole world is eyeing on this country and on China as well.There is a lot to learn from these countries which even after being developing nations were standing like strong rock. The US economy is not fundamentally healthy even it is a command driven economy. The case is altogether differnet with country like India which is the only domestic demand driven economy in Asia at a time when the whole world is worried about western growth.
If we focus on some recent meetings like G-20 when many countries were eclipsed, Brazil & Russia were also considered among the least affected nations.
These countries basically send a message all across the globe that the governments policies should always be fundamentaly strong so that these type of erratic events can never be repeated in future leading in the imbalance of the whole world.

Vishal Kumar(PGDM) Indira School of Business Studies,Pune(India)
Posted By : Vishal Kumar
Posted on : November 25, 2009

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