Companies get knuckles wrapped over lack of gender diversity on boards
Investment manager trade body The Investment Association and the Hampton-Alexander Review have written to 69 of the UK’s top companies expressing concerns about the lack of gender diversity on their company boards.
The letter, which has been sent to companies with no women or just one woman on their board, asks the FTSE350 companies to detail what action they are taking to make progress and ensure they are meeting the Hampton-Alexander targets of 33% of women on their board and leadership team by 2020.
The letter follows the announcement in February that IVIS, the Investment Association’s voter information service, will give a ‘red-top’, its highest warning level, to so-called ‘one and done’ companies who have just a single woman on their board.
The 69 companies that were sent letters are:
Companies with one woman on board
3I Infrastructure
888 Holdings
Acacia Mining
Alliance Trust
Amigo Holdings
Apax Global Alpha
Avast
Baillie Gifford Japan Trust
BCA Marketplace
Cairn Energy
Caledonia Investments
Capital Counties Properties
Centamin
Charter Court
City of London Investment Trust
Civitas Social Housing
Clarkson
ContourGlobal
Diploma
Dominos Pizza Group
Edinburgh Dragon Trust
Edinburgh Investment Trust
Energean Oil & Gas
F&C Commercial Property Trust
Ferrexpo
Fidelity China Special Situations
GCP Infrastructure Investments
Grafton Group
Greencoat UK Wind
Greene King
Harbourvest Global Private Equity
Herald Investment Trust
HG Capital Trust
HICL Infrastructure Company
Hill Smith Holdings
Hilton Food Group
Hochschild Mining
IP Group Plc
JD Sports Fashion
JPMorgan American Investment Trust
JPMorgan Emerging Markets Investment Trust
JPMorgan Japanese Investment Trust
Jupiter European Opportunities Trust
Just Group
Monks Investment Trust
NB Global Floating Rate Income Fund
No women boards
Pantheon International
Personal Assets Trust
Plus500
Primary Health Properties
Rank Group
Restaurant Group
Riverstone Energy
Schroder Asia Pacific Fund
Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund
Softcat
St James Place
Stobart Group
Syncona
Telecom Plus
Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust
Tritax Big Box REIT
Vietnam Enterprise Investments
VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund
Witan Investment Trust
Worldwide Healthcare Trust
Companies with no women on board
Daejan Holdings
Millennium & Copthorne Hotels
TR Property Investment Trust
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