Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

Hodge told ESG Investor a vote of 20% or more against a resolution relating to director elections or remuneration occurred in only half of the cases where one or both of ISS or Glass Lewis had made such a recommendation in 2022, although this increased to 77% of cases when both did so.

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MARCH 10, 2022

PLSA) digital ESG Conference 2022. Trustees should exert their influence over asset managers and investee companies to ensure they are “walking the walk” in terms of adapting their business models to net zero objectives, she said, including encouraging managers to sign up to the UK Stewardship Code.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The pace has quickened further in 2022 in response to then Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s April 2021 announcement that by 2030 the country’s emissions would reduce by 46% relative to 2013 levels. Such high levels volumes in the ESG investment space partly reflect the lead taken by the country’s policymakers and financial regulators.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2023

At a glance, the rising number of ESG-related shareholder proposals filed and backed by investors shows a growing appetite amongst asset owners to push systemic stewardship further and secure positive environmental and social outcomes. Transparency is improving, but slowly.

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Chris Hall

MAY 20, 2024

If you look at stewardship codes across the world, they touch on resources as being a key element, but without explicitly giving out guidance on how organisations can report and which resources are required,” Jessica Gao, Director of Research at the TAI, told ESG Investor. “The

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Chris Hall

MARCH 30, 2023

The long-awaited strategy acknowledged that pension trustees would like further information and clarity on the “latitude” of their fiduciary duties in the context of the transition to net zero and broader stewardship activities. It confirmed the Department on Work and Pension’s (DWP) plans to examine the extent to which its 2022 stewardship guidance (..)

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Research prepared by the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) shows that there are close to 900 policy tools or revisions that support responsible investors in 2022. Hardwiring sustainability into financial regulations is already on policymakers’ agenda. By comparison, in 2019, there were fewer than 600; and in 2013, 300.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As part of investors’ stewardship practices, engagement can, if well-executed, lead to positive results across the axes of risk, return and impact. Engagement to reduce risks: In a recent study by Hoepner et al (2022) , the authors analysed whether ESG engagements result in subsequent reductions in downside risk at portfolio firms.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 18, 2023

The new guide highlighted that participation in collaborative stewardship initiatives increased from 68% in 2017 to 83% in 2020, with asset owners “particularly driving the change”. Continuing to evolve According to Bartek, the guide will be use d by a “range of entities ”, including signatories that have only recently joined the PRI.

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Chris Hall

JULY 4, 2023

To incentivise this and ensure harmonisation in reporting, uptake and provision of information by asset managers in the public register should be linked to other relevant regulatory expectations and industry initiatives, such as the UK Stewardship Code and the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change Asset Owner Stewardship Questionnaire, she (..)

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Chris Hall

JULY 18, 2022

According to Morningstar data on US proxy voting, the number of shareholder resolutions on environmental and social topics opposed by management almost doubled to more than 250 in 2022, but barely 10% (27) gained majority support. Digging into the data.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 29, 2022

Scanning across to the Financial Reporting Council’s UK Stewardship Code, the 2020 Code represents a mature governance regime for UK-listed businesses. It has its origins in 1992’s Cadbury report and code, which covers the financial aspects of corporate governance.

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Chris Hall

MAY 26, 2023

The NZIA has been treading carefully since similar issues were raised in Q1 2022, particularly when issuing its first non-binding target-setting protocol in January. Their action follows a letter on 15 May from state attorneys-general warning that members may be in breach of state and federal US law.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

After a pension fund-led coalition laid out new expectations for managers on climate related-stewardship, there were signs of consensus among customer and supplier over the name of the game. Rival Rio Tinto has also been mulling a move , launching a review of its listing options under pressure from Palliser Capital.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 8, 2025

The UKs Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) launched the Vote Reporting Group in 2022 to examine obstacles to information flows between asset managers to asset owners on how voting rights are exercised.

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Chris Hall

JULY 5, 2023

The country is also upping its game on stewardship, with New Zealand’s inaugural Stewardship Code launching last year with 17 signatories, says Simon O’Connor outgoing CEO of RIAA. “The Code was developed collaboratively by the industry and responds to our unique context in New Zealand,” he says.

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