Non-executive directors – NEDs – are directors of a company who don’t have management responsibilities[1] and they play a critical part in holding management (including the executive directors) to account. A brief digression, first, on the different types of NEDs. Independent non-executive directors – often referred to as INEDs – have no interest in or […]
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What makes an effective NED?
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Outsiders becoming insiders
This isn’t a note about insider dealing. It’s a note about independence and situations in which that might be compromised by an independent or external person becoming so vested in a firm that they become part of the home team rather than being a true outsider. This won’t always be the case. But there’s a […]
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Also tagged auditors, board, conflict of interests, independence, independent, independent non-executive directors, insiders, outsiders, professional advisers
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