Small Listed Companies Group

Small Listed Companies Group and employee share plans

Date: Tuesday 5 October 2021
Time: 09.00–10.00 BST

In all businesses, employees are a key group of stakeholders. Share schemes have long been used to incentivise and reward staff performance and to align their interests with those of the company. As recognition of the need for fairness between investors and other stakeholders increases, and against a backdrop of continuing controversy over some companies’ executive remuneration practices, this event will explore the pros and cons, risks and benefits of employee share ownership and how the share schemes landscape may evolve from here.

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This Small Listed Companies Special Interest Group aims to provide networking and learning opportunities for those working in small listed companies. Our events are designed to offer an excellent opportunity to meet others who share the specific challenges faced by governance professionals in these businesses as well as content tailored to the legal, regulatory and best practice requirements applicable to smaller listed companies.

Please get in touch if you have a suggested topic that you think may be of interest to our members.

Suitable for company secretaries and governance professionals working in Aim listed or small cap businesses as well as companies with IPO aspirations, our group welcomes Institute members and non-members alike.

We look forward to welcoming you to our next event.

BEIS audit and corporate governance consultation in relation to smaller companies

Date: Tuesday 22 June 2021

The BEIS consultation ‘Restoring trust in audit and corporate governance’ has the potential to bring enormous change to the practice and expectations of corporate governance in the UK. We are delighted to be joined by Miranda Craig FCG, Director of Strategy and Change, from the Financial Reporting Council to explore some of the issues and questions raised by the consultation, focussing on those issues likely to be of most relevance to governance professionals working in public practice and company secretaries of smaller listed companies.

QCA Practical Guide to ESG

Date: 28 April 2021

A joint webinar hosted by the QCA and the CGIUKI Small Listed Companies Group to discuss the brand new QCA Practical Guide to ESG.  The QCA Guide to ESG provides practical steps that small and mid-sized quoted companies can take to develop how they examine and disclose their approach to those ESG issues that matter for them. It outlines an approach that is proportionate to the resource constraints of smaller companies, whilst giving investors and stakeholders the information that they need in a digestible manner.

ESG topics are increasingly high profile, and when a company gets them right, this encourages investment and improves reputation. The topics can be complex, with few easy answers: attending this event should help with internal discussions and inform strategy.

You can acces the presentation slides here.

• QCA latest guide The QCA Practical Guide to ESG - Downloadable pdf free for QCA members and charge for non members  
• QCA Research Report: ESG in Small & Mid-Sized Quoted Companies - Perceptions, Myths and Realities - Free downloadable pdf

Speakers

Section 172 Reporting

Date: Thursday 21 January 2021

The Small Listed Companies Group hosted a webinar in partnership with Design Portfolio to explore practical implementation measures, examples of best practice and Section 172 reporting trends.

You can acces the presentation slides here.

A recording of the webinar is available here.

Effective Board Evaluations for Smaller Listed Companies

Date: Wednesday 15 July 2020

Our Small Listed Companies Special Interest Group hosted a webinar, in partnership with Lintstock  to explore practical measures for conducting an effective internal board review within a smaller listed company.

You can access the presentation slides here.

5 Questions to Help Leaders Take Difficult Decisions Well

Date: Wednesday 27 May 2020

Our Small Listed Companies Special Interest Group hosted a webinar, in partnership with Board Intelligence, to explore what boards of smaller listed companies can do to optimise decision making, particularly in these challenging times.

Is the immediate future any more uncertain than it was in January? Or back in January, were we just kidding ourselves that we had things under control? And today, what’s changed is our viewpoint — our very human desire for certainty has been given a big slap in the face. Given this context, what does it mean for Governance professionals, Chairman and executives; in particular, how they make decisions?

We shared five questions to give you and your board greater confidence in making some very difficult decisions well. Doing the next right thing becomes much easier when you can take comfort that your decision — with limited information and necessary haste — was well considered.

You can view the recording and presentation slides on our partner Board Intelligence's site here

Shareholder Activism in Small Listed Companies

Date: Wednesday 22 January 2020

Shareholder activism in the UK during 2018 set records for the number of campaigns launched and for the success of these initiatives. This session looked over the lessons of the 2019 AGM season and forecast what we can expect to see for small listed companies in 2020.

At this event, we looked over the impact of shareholder activism specifically in small listed companies and how boards can and should respond.

We covered regulatory changes that have given power to activists including:

• Stricter investors’ voting policies
• Changes to regulatory and advisory frameworks such as the QCA guidelines.

This session will help you to:

• Understand the impact of recent shareholder activism
• Proactively develop steps your board can take to avoid activist attention
• Shape a response to shareholder activism at your company

You can view the presentation slides here.

KPMG: Executive Remuneration in Small Listed Companies

Date: Monday 7 October 2019

Drawing upon reports published by KPMG Board Leadership Centre reviewing executive and non-executive remuneration in AIM and small cap companies, this session explored the trends and issues that shape pay and performance-related incentives in these businesses. As well as looking at key takeaways from this year's AGM season, our speakers also discussed what regulatory and reporting changes and challenges lie ahead.

View the presentation slides here.

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