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Viewpoint: Caroline Escott, Governance for Growth Investor Campaign
IPE Membership IPE has created a suite of products and services for Europe’s institutional investment and pensions community. Pension fund interviews, country analysis and data Asset classes and strategies in depth Markus Schaen , Senior Fund Manager, MN, The Netherlands
Caroline Escott: “Investors, it’s time to treat public policy engagement as a core part of your stewardship strategy”
Investors are, rightly, vocal about the need for meaningful reform when it comes to system-wide issues such as climate resilience, labour rights, or cybersecurity. We recognise that these are not just company-specific risks, but systemic challenges that threaten long-term value creation across our portfolios. Yet, despite this growing awareness, our industry has arguably been too slow to embrace one of the most powerful tools for change available to us: public policy advocacy.
Voting on Voting Rights: How the World’s Largest Investors Sanction Companies with Unequal Voting Rights
Corporate governance, dual-class structure, Shareholders, Voting Rights More from: Caroline Escott, Shane McCullagh , Investor Coalition for Equal Votes (ICEV) Caroline Escott is a Senior Investment Manager and Chair and Shane McCullagh is an Investment Analyst at Investor Coalition for Equal Votes (ICEV). This post is based on an ICEV memorandum by Ms. Escott, Mr. McCullagh, and Glenn Davis.
Reddit’s IPO is a regrettable mis-step in corporate governance
The writer is chair of the Investor Coalition for Equal Votes and senior investment manager at Railpen This week Reddit has gone public...
Viewpoint: Unequal voting rights must be phased out
Weakening protections around dual class share structures will not deliver the desired benefits There has been extensive discussion amongst UK policymakers about how to rectify the recent decline in IPOs as the current government looks for ways to boost economic growth and maintain the City of London’s reputation as a global financial centre. One such suggestion is to weaken protections around dual-class share structures (DCSS, or unequal voting rights).
Material Metrics for a Motivated Workforce
It is now widely agreed that investors need to understand how a company is managing climate risk to ascertain its future performance prospects. Consequently, climate reporting has advanced significantly in recent years (though there is still some way to go).
How Covid has changed the way we view our portfolio
Michael Marshall, head of sustainable ownership initiative, and Caroline Escott, senior investment manager, are part of RPMI Railpen’s active ownership team. The idea of changing roles in the midst of a pandemic sounds uncertain and risky. Yet 6.1% of employed people in the UK moved jobs in the first half of this year, including us. We recently moved from our previous roles and joined RPMI Railpen’s sustainable ownership team.
Lessons from Covid to tackle climate change
Caroline Escott was senior policy lead of investment and stewardship at the PLSA. Covid-19 has demonstrated the level of work and co-ordinated activity required to tackle big, compound risks, as well as the interrelation between the environment and our economy. It is a lesson the investment industry should learn, to better tackle another issue which poses a systemic risk to nearly every business in every sector: climate change.
Diversity for pension schemes is key to success
Skip to content Home Opinion Diversity for pension schemes is key to success For many, Friday 8 March is just another day: the end of a working week. Yet behind its plain exterior it holds more meaning as it’s not only the final day of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings (PLSA) Investment Conference, but also International Women’s Day.
Guest comment: Company success relies on motivated and productive employees
Guest comment: Company success relies on motivated and productive employees Evidence is growing that the long-term success of a company depends on stable, motivated and productive employees feel financially secure, professionally fulfilled, and appropriately skilled to carry out the responsibilities of their job.
CCP Clearing & Pension Fund Schemes - the Exemption, Other Solutions & Uncertainty
In a Q&A with Caroline Escott, investment and defined benefits policy lead at the Pension and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA), we discuss the ongoing debate on the clearing exemption for pension scheme arrangements—including what a permanent solution may look like, and if the exemption should be extended. Listen to the podcast on this topic. Q: Do you think that the current CCP clearing exemption for pension fund schemes could possibly be extended again? And if so, why and why not?
Apfa: Advisers won’t be left out in the cold after WMA merger - Money Marketing
Apfa insists its proposed merger with the Wealth Management Association will not shut out advisers Apfa senior policy adviser Caroline Escott writes ahead of Apfa’s vote to join forces with the WMA today The most fundamental reason for a trade association to exist is to be an advocate on behalf of a particular sector.
Why Brexit shouldn’t slow down regulatory progress - Money Marketing
As the FCA’s sends a strong signal that it intends to clamp down on unsuitable advice, Apfa senior policy adviser Caroline Escott believes Brexit should not deter regulatory progress Brexit might only have been mentioned once in the FCA’s mission paper consultation, but it looms large over the series of papers published this week. A good bit of news in last year’s consultation and the mission plan was the commitment to a review of the handbook.
Apfa: Holding the FCA to account on adviser numbers - Money Marketing
Data is important. Produced clearly, accurately and consistently, it allows policymakers to better understand the impact of their decisions upon the people and markets affected. It also enables those within the industry to conduct their own investigations in order to more effectively hold the Government and regulator to account. This is why, in the wake of the RDR, we have produced our Financial Adviser Market: In Numbers report on an annual basis.
Apfa: What next on pensions scams and unregulated investments? - Money Marketing
The pension freedoms have given people greater autonomy over what they do with their retirement savings, as well as provided a useful boost to tax revenues in the era of austerity. However, with these reforms also came a greater opportunity for consumers to be scammed out of their pension savings by being encouraged to invest in fraudulent or unsuitably risky schemes.
FCA must progress FAMR proposals in 2017 - Money Marketing
When the Financial Advice Market Review recommendations came out, we were a little disappointed. There was good news: the Financial Services Compensation Scheme levy review; the new pensions advice allowance; the recommendations on tax relief for workplace pensions advice; and clarifying the boundaries on simplified and streamlined advice. There was also less good news, with the longstop being ruled out without properly addressing the issue or giving consideration to alternative proposals.
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