Playing a fair game

Public uproar about big bonuses for RBS and Barclays top brass and last year’s phone hacking scandal at the News of the World have forced corporate governance and wider business ethics to the fore. Thanks to such high profile cases, investors are now much more aware of the need to protect themselves against the risk of business failure and mismanagement of the companies in which they invest. This underlines that management of a business should be closely monitored not only by the board but its investors too; however this is an issue which has been in and out of the public agenda since...