What can you do about it?

How can you prevent executives from hiding or disguising their poor performance figures?

How do you incentivise and guide leaders for success?

What is the distinction between stock market underperformance and managerial underperformance?

A leading Fund Manager will reveal the analyses and the use of Benchmark indicators of possible failure and the interventions available to ensure top level performance.

An Organisational Psychologist will reveal signs of potential collapse in individuals and teams at the very top of organisations, and appropriate remedial treatment.

STOCKMARKET UNDERPERFORMANCE -

When a company's share price underperforms its benchmarks

MANAGERIAL UNDERPERFORMANCE -

When managers of the firm have made poor decisions or failed in their implementation.

Once identified there are a number of ways that institutional investors can implement change through meetings, engagement and ultimately voting.

These are crucial issues for well managed and successful organisations

This Forum will examine commercial companies for whom investors have a crucial role to play, and public sector where regulation and intervention is sometimes required by ministers and others

We are delighted to announce the following keynote speakers: Anthony Bolton, President - Investments, Fidelity International, will reveal the analyses and the use of benchmark indicators of possible failure and the interventions that are available to ensure top level performance. Professor Adrian Furnham, an Organisational Psychologist, will reveal the signs of potential collapse in both individuals and teams at the very top of organisations, and appropriate remedial treatment. There are a number of ways that institutional investors can implement change in an underperforming company: through meetings, engagement and ultimately voting, but how effective are these mechanisms at achieving investors objectives? Philip Yea, the Chief Executive of 3i, will discuss both the similarities and differences around the world in determining, encouraging and dealing with the highly problematic matter of growing companies.

These questions are at the core of a new centre for Executive Behaviour, Compensation and performance to be established at the Business School at the University of Exeter, combining the expertise of the Centre for Leadership Studies and the Xfi Centre for Finance & Investment.