Reports
Knowledge, experience and perspective within research pieces that support change.
Thought Leadership
The owners and shareholders of a purpose-driven company with a multi stakeholder business model find that purpose is a pathway
to greater profits and long term value; we continue to press for a reset of business priorities, stewardship and dividend policy.
The Growth Trilogy – Paper Three
The paper is the third in a series of three assessing the ecosystem in which purposeful startups and scaleups can best contribute to enhanced growth and productivity.
The Growth Trilogy – Part 2
The necessary but insufficient precondition for higher growth is a cohort of high growth firms.
The Growth Trilogy – Paper Two
The paper is the second in a series of three assessing the ecosystem in which purposeful startups and scaleups can best contribute to enhanced growth and productivity.
The Growth Trilogy – Paper One
The paper is the first in a series of three assessing the ecosystem in which purposeful startups and scaleups can best contribute to enhanced growth and productivity.
Advancing Purpose Executive Summary
Executive summary and conclusions on how purposeful companies and investors can make better common cause
Advancing Purpose
Key findings and recommendations on how purposeful companies and investors can make better common cause
The Purpose Tapes – Purpose driven leaders in their own words
Fourteen CEOs set out why they believe profit follows purpose
Dividend policy in purposeful companies
Thoughts on dividend policies in purposeful companies.
The need for an integrated regulatory approach to stewardship
Recommendations on bringing together strands of regulation and oversight to create a coherent system-wide approach to stewardship.
Review of the UK Stewardship Code thoughts for change
A summary of the academic evidence on stewardship and implications for Stewardship Code reform.
Executive remuneration report
Best academic evidence on executive pay levels, making the case for simplified executive pay.
Policy report
Policy manifesto for corporate governance and ecosystem change to support purposeful companies.
Interim report
Academic evidence relating to purposeful companies and to the case for pursuing purpose.
Market Studies
Our market studies are part of the rigorous research and evidence-based recommendations we put forward in challenging
and influencing the design of practical policies for change, notably CEO and directors’ remuneration.
Private Equity and Purpose
Research and key findings on how Private Equity leans into purpose
Study on Deferred Shares Progress Review
Key findings and recommendations from our study on the progress made towards executive pay simplification in the UK market.
Study on Deferred Shares Key Findings Report
Key findings and recommendations from our study on executive pay simplification in the UK market.
Study on Deferred Shares Full Report
Detailed research data and findings from our study on executive pay simplification in the UK market.
Consultation Responses
Our input in response to various Consultations has been influential with many of the regulators, including the Department for Business, Energy and
Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the investor community.
Response to the BEIS Committee’s post pandemic economic growth super inquiry
Response to the post-pandemic economic growth super inquiry and the role purpose can play in the recovery.
Response to the FRC consultation on the proposed revision to the UK Stewardship Code
A suggested framework of principles and provisions for the Stewardship Code, shifting the emphasis from reporting to outcomes.
Submission to BEIS Committee Inquiry
Our evidence to the BEIS Committee Inquiry on Executive Pay.
Response to the FRC Stewardship Code pre-consultation questions
Response to the pre-consultation on the role of stewardship and key enhancements required to the Stewardship Code.
Response to the FRC consultation on proposed revisions to UK Corporate Governance Code
How the Proposed Code could be sharpened to align with Purpose and value-creating stakeholder relationships.
Strengthening board accountability for alignment of wider pay policy
Principles and recommendations on how boards can discharge their accountabilities for wider pay policy.
FRC’s review of the UK Corporate Governance Code
How to update the 2016 Corporate Governance Code to place Purpose at the heart of UK business.
FRC’s review of corporate reporting
Key factors in guidance to support better reporting of intangibles, stakeholder value and purpose.