Terms of Reference for the Chief Executive Officer
Authority and Reporting
- The Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") is generally responsible
for managing the business of Invesco Ltd. and its subsidiaries
(collectively, the "Company") and is accountable to and reports to the
Board of Directors (the "Board") of the Company with regard thereto.
- The CEO has general supervision of the business of the Company
and is responsible for all executive management matters affecting the
Company. All members of executive management report, either directly or
indirectly, to him.
Key Responsibilities
The CEO's responsibilities include:
- The CEO is responsible for conducting the affairs of
the Company with the highest standards of integrity and probity and in
compliance with all applicable laws, principles and rules of corporate
governance, including the Company's Articles of Association, its
Corporate Governance Manual and the resolutions of the Board, as the
same shall be in effect from time to time.
- The CEO is responsible for proposing and developing the
Company's strategy and overall commercial objectives, which he does in
close consultation with the Executive Management Committee, the
Chairman of the Board of Directors (the "Chairman") and the
Board.
- The CEO is responsible for ensuring that the Company
has in place all necessary financial, operational and compliance
controls and risk management systems.
- The CEO is responsible - with the senior management
team including the Executive Management Committee - for implementing
the decisions of the Board and its committees.
Additional Responsibilities
Further, the CEO is responsible for:
- Providing input to the Board's agenda from himself
and other members of senior management;
- Ensuring that he communicates with the Chairman on
the important and strategic issues facing the Company, and proposing
Board agendas to the Chairman which reflect these;
- Ensuring that the senior management team gives
appropriate priority to providing reports to him and, where required,
the Board which contain accurate, timely and clear information;
- Ensuring, in consultation with the Chairman and the Company
Secretary as appropriate, that he and the other members of senior
management comply with the Board's approved procedures, including the
schedule of Matters Reserved to the Board for its decision and the
provisions of each Board committee's respective Terms of Reference;
- Providing information and advice on succession planning to the
Chairman, the Nomination and Corporate Governance Committee and other
members of the Board, in respect of executive directors and other
members of senior management;
- Leading the communication program with shareholders;
- Ensuring that the development needs of the executive directors
and other members of senior management reporting to him are identified
and met;
- Ensuring that performance reviews for each of the executive
directors and other members of senior management are carried out at
least once a year and providing input to the wider Board evaluation
process; and
- Performing such other duties and exercising such other powers
as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Board.