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Our stakeholders
The Board and senior executive team’s participation in shareholder
engagement reflects the importance we place on this activity. In
addition to our Group Chief Executive and Group Finance Director, each
of our four business heads and a large proportion of their senior
leaders have been actively involved in investor meetings, reflecting our
desire to promote shareholder access to a broad cross section of
Barclays’ management team.
During 2014, we held quarterly results briefings, hosted by our Group
Chief Executive and/or Group Finance Director and also held an
in-person Group Strategy Update in May 2014. For fixed income
investors, we held conference calls at both our full year and interim
results, hosted by our Group Finance Director and Group Treasurer.
To further support engagement with our shareholders, we actively
engaged with sell-side research analysts who provide their
recommendations to the market. During 2014 this included breakfast
briefings from the Group Finance Director after each of our results
announcements. We also held a series of bi-annual meetings with the
main credit rating agencies. These involved updates from Group
Executive Committee members on their business units, as well as from
Finance, Risk and Treasury, and allowed the credit rating agencies to
develop a deeper understanding of our business.
The redesign of barclays.com, our corporate website, played a major
part in enhancing our engagement with stakeholders. The updated IR
section now provides a simple and clear source for a wide range of
information on Barclays, including: our strategy and objectives,
financial and operating performance, as well as all presentations and
speeches by senior management. The re-launch was undertaken in line
with the overall objective of making shareholders’ lives easier, by:
Q Providing a central source of information on Barclays;
Q Delivering clear messaging, with relevant and engaging content; and
Q Making the website more intuitive to navigate.
Feedback received through engagement with all our stakeholders is
communicated to the Directors to inform Board discussions. During
2014, investor and analyst views on the strategic realignment of the
Group were particularly helpful to the Board’s discussions relating to
our Group Strategy Update in May 2014. We encourage further
engagement with our investors as an opportunity to understand their
views and concerns, as we continue on our journey to becoming the
‘Go-To’ bank for customers and clients.
Engagement on 2015 AGM Matters
Engagement on 2014 AGM matters
2013 Results & Fixed Income
conference calls
Analyst briefing on 2013 Results
Analyst briefing on 2014 Interim
Results
Analyst briefing on Q3 IMS
Engagement with significant
institutional investors on
appointment of Chairman elect
Q3 IMS conference call
Q4
Q3
Q2
Q1
2013 Results
Announcement
Corporate governance meetings
with major institutional UK
shareholders
2014 AGM
Q1 IMS conference callQ1 Interim Management
Statement (IMS)
Group Strategy Update
presentation
Analyst briefing on Group
Strategy Update
Group Strategy Update
2014 Interim Results
Announcement
Appointment of Chairman
elect announced
Q3 IMS
Reporting events Stakeholder engagement
2014 Interim Results & Fixed
Income conference calls
The Strategic Report Governance Risk review Financial review Financial statements Shareholder information