Environmental Finance
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Investors have been asked to support linking investment stewardship to the creation of 'long-term sustainable value' in the UK Stewardship Code, in an alternative definition to 'watered-down' proposals by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC).
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. The Stewardship Code plays a key role in influencing global practice and rigour. These are both critical elements in investors’ stewardship toolkits.
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Chris Hall
AUGUST 25, 2023
The Stewardship Code says a measure of your engagement quality is case studies. It’s really important that we present one view.” She added that unlike other competitors it also didn’t split its vote at company AGMs. “We That is one way. We believe it dilutes the effectiveness of engagement,” she said.
Chris Hall
MARCH 1, 2024
Clearing’s present danger – Financial market infrastructures are waking up to climate risks, even as some central banks are scaling back their work in this area. Another long-awaited announcement came from the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC), which confirmed the start of its Stewardship Code 2020 review.
Chris Hall
JANUARY 31, 2023
A 2019 study of the stewardship activities of the big three index fund managers – BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street – found that there was no engagement with 90% of investee companies over three years, with a further 5% of firms experiencing a single engagement.
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.
Chris Hall
DECEMBER 2, 2022
For sustainable investment professionals, reporting against the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) or the Task Force on Climate-related Financia Disclosures, stewardship code disclosures, and standardised, comparable corporate reporting are now part of the day job. Policy takers and policy shapers.
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