Chris Hall

MAY 10, 2024

Three years earlier, Rathbones had signed up to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), which he had helped develop. As part of that, we looked at the stewardship area and concluded we should be doing more of it.” There is almost an industrial machinery around stewardship reporting.”

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Chris Hall

MAY 9, 2023

The review factored in the implications of UK market abuse regulations and developments in competition law in major jurisdictions. Manning said the TPT’s guidance would provide support and input for investors’ sustainability-related stewardship activities. “If

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

All surveyed schemes, collectively representing £150 billion AUM, said they were targeting UN Sustainable Development Goals relating to climate action. According to recent study of 650 UK occupational pension funds by investment consultants Mercer, only 35% of schemes conduct a stewardship assessment of investment managers at least annually.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2023

But far fewer (13%) are disclosing the impacts of all their portfolios on people and planet, with around half reporting a commitment to divest or reduce holdings or refuse to purchase new debt from “problematic companies”.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The Financial Conduct Authority’s decision to halt the development of an effectiveness metric undermines systemic stewardship, says Gustave Loriot-Boserup, Founder of Compass Insights. Following this work, the UK Stewardship Code 2020, which we still use today, was published. A – Stewardship.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2023

A recent Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) discussion paper asked for feedback on possible regulatory change needed to support collaborative engagement and systemic stewardship, while the Financial Reporting Council is due to lead a review of its Stewardship Code. Also speaking at the Stewardship Summit, Mark Manning , Strategic Policy Advisor on (..)

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Chris Hall

JULY 4, 2023

“There’s been a lot of grumbling from investment managers about vote reporting requests from pension funds in particular,” he said. Samantha Chew, Stewardship Lead at Aegon UK, which is unable to consider divestment of its largely passively-managed portfolio, said poor transparency and timeliness of vote reporting were two longstanding barriers (..)

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