Independent Insight Information

Independent Insight is a new business formed by experienced City professionals to provide non-executive directors of FTSE 350 companies with an independent source of information on the companies they serve. Our detailed independent company analysis is a product designed to reflect the significant changes in the roles and responsibilities of NEDs in recent years, following the greater emphasis on complying with ever more stringent corporate governance requirements as well as their statutory legal responsibilities. Our key proposition to non-executive directors is; 1. An independent assessment of the company’s performance against its major competitors in the industry. 2. An assessment of the executive management team. 3. A review of the company’s overall strategic direction and objectives, with the aim of highlighting medium and long term problems. 4. An annual review of investor sentiment, derived from interviews with senior fund managers and opinion formers, primarily sell-side analysts, and also those on the buy-side. 5. We will provide a value for money analysis of the company’s audit, looking at the audit fee relative to competitors and to other companies audited by the same audit firm. We will also review the amount spent with the auditors on non-audit assignments. This is achieved by comparison with our own database of the major audit fees for the top 600 European companies. 6. A detailed comparison of the stock market valuation of the company with key competitors. This includes an assessment of relative valuation measures on a common timeline as well as the tracking of estimate changes and share price moves relative to peers.