Chris Hall

JANUARY 31, 2023

“They’re invested in typically thousands of companies but at most they have a few dozen individuals responsible for stewardship. Research suggests the growing emphasis on stewardship and engagement is only slowly feeding through to better resourcing or reporting. The numbers just don’t add up.”

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 15, 2024

The new strategy sets priorities over the next three years for the investor network , which doubled in size between 2019 and 2023. Now there’s a plethora of those – both mandatory and voluntary.” Our reporting needs to reflect that and make sure that signatories are only having to report once, not in multiple formats,” Atkin added.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As PRI in Person closes today in Barcelona, gathering more than 1,700 investors and stakeholders in person for the first time since 2019, one key message throughout has been that policy matters, now more than ever. By comparison, in 2019, there were fewer than 600; and in 2013, 300. Policy takers and policy shapers.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 20, 2022

In 2019, compensation earned by CEOs of US-listed companies outweighed the average worker by a ratio of 320:1, according to the American think tank Economic Policy Institute. .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) noted in a review of UK stewardship code signatories’ reporting that some relied heavily on examples of meetings with companies as part of general information-gathering and monitoring, rather than involving targeted engagement on specific issues.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Shaking up existing stewardship practices can take time, especially when the current approach is so deeply embedded. Many countries in Asia already have stewardship codes in place, including Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea. Koreas value-up programme is inspired by a similar initiative in Japan.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2024

Laith Cahill, Senior Net Zero Stewardship Specialist at the IIGCC, says the UK’s streamlined Stewardship Code must preserve its ambition. Since its last update in 2019, the landscape for stewardship and reporting has evolved drastically. These are both critical elements in investors’ stewardship toolkits.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The tool lets users generate real-time reports aligned with frameworks including the UK’s Stewardship Code 2020, the Global Reporting Initiative taxonomy and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Gillies flagged the UK Stewardship Code as being a particular catalyst for the growth of investors’ and managers’ focus on engagement.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The concept of assessing what effective stewardship should look like was first introduced by the FCA in 2019 in a joint effort with the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), setting the groundwork which helped define what the minimum expectations should be for financial services firms investing on behalf of clients and beneficiaries.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Proposed revision to stewardship definition seen as potentially weakening ambition and fostering distance between investment decisions and their impacts. A tweak to the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) definition of stewardship in a proposed update to the UK Stewardship Code has been received with alarm by asset owners and managers.

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