The conference will provide you with the behavioural tools necessary to have the conversations needed to see, shape, and reach this new future. Drawing on the resource of Vision 2050, it will be centred on generative group work exploring cities and transport in the future, as well as how nature would do it. Expertly led, the content of these sessions will be captured on video and will be displayed on The Future We Want website and potentially at the exhibit at Rio +20 - the only exhibit the delegates will walk through.  Facilitated by content and culture panels, the "how" of how solutions are reached will be turned into a toolkit for participants to take with them at the close of the conference.       

Tomorrow's Corporate Governance: improving the quality of boardroom conversations focuses on the importance of conversation in the boardroom as the ‘magic dust’ that underpins board effectiveness and considers ways in which boards strive to get the very best from the skills and abilities around the board table.  

In this speech, delivered to the Meeting of the Experts Group on Disclosure of Non-Financial Information by Companies, Dr. Steve Waygood discusses the need for greater levels, and uniformity, of discloure by companies on non-financial issues in order to better ensure long-term, sustainable, value creation for both investors and their investee companies. Dr. Waygood goes on to address four key questions regarding how and why to proceed with this aim, and sets out Aviva Investors' position.

Following the news that Manchester United's owners, the Glazer family, plan to float a 30% stake in the club on the Singapore Stock Exchange Mark Goyder adresses the complex issues surrounding shareholder voting rights and their implications for stewardship.  

In 2002 Mark Goyder wrote "Lessons from Enron". It was a story about the culture of fear and greed at the top of the company, and how Enron's non-execs, who were there to hold them to account, failed to restrain it.  In this article Mark looks at the similarities between Enron's corporate culture and that of News Corp, in the light of recent events. He asks what lessons can be learned from these failings and spells out the need for a greater measure of stewardship throughout the investment chain.