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COP out: how the promise of Glasgow has faded
After years of leading on climate and green finance policies, the UK has slipped behind key regions such as the EU and the US. The coming months will show whether the current government is serious about sustainable finance – or is resigned to being an also-ran in the race to net zero. The UK has just announced its Spring Budget, setting out what Chancellor Jeremy Hunt called the four pillars of the UK’s industrial strategy: enterprise, employment, education and everywhere.
Responsible private equity: Our data reveals some emerging best practices but there is more work to do
The private equity industry is predicted to manage more than US$11trn by 2026, according to Harvard Business Review. The roughly 10,000 firms operating in the space already oversee more than 20 million employees at about 40,000 portfolio companies. As the authors point out, this represents a huge opportunity to tackle climate change and other major sustainability challenges.
Inside PRI data: Insights on current practice
July will mark the half-way point between the creation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 target to achieve them.
Are corporate boards responding to successful shareholder ESG proposals?
We analysed 78[2] majority-supported shareholder proposals from the 2022 proxy season that focused on ESG issues or improving shareholder rights more broadly. To understand what has become of these proposals since the annual general meetings (AGMs) they were filed at, we issued surveys to the 26 shareholder proponents that filed them and the 70 receiving companies. The surveys were conducted between November and December 2022.
A guide to filing impactful shareholder resolutions
Country-specific factsheets have also been developed to provide an overview of the key legal and technical processes related to filing a shareholder proposal in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South Africa, the UK and the US. Introduction A shareholder proposal is a resolution that is put forward by a single shareholder, or group of shareholders, to a company board, asking for a matter to be voted upon at the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM).
You’ve filed a shareholder proposal - what now?
In many countries, this year’s annual general meeting (AGM) season is fast approaching. A growing number of investors have been busy filing shareholder proposals – that is, putting forward asks to companies, to be voted on by shareholders at their AGMs. However, drafting and filing the proposal is just one part of the picture.
Responsible investors must unite for racial justice
For months the human and economic devastation from the COVID-19 pandemic has been hitting ethnic minority communities around the world with disproportionate force. Now, in the wake of the crisis, demonstrations have reverberated across the United States and the world after yet another brutal killing of a black person—George Floyd—in police custody.
COVID-19: putting people at the heart of our response
For decades a significant portion of the global financial system has operated under the assumption that less for workers means more for executives and investors. However, the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inequalities inbuilt in the system and the issues arising from this entrenched global dynamic. The current system which deprioritises workers and other stakeholders in favour of shareholders is no longer proving viable anywhere in the world.
The new normal: company AGMs in a COVID-19 world
The COVID-19 crisis has had a profound impact on communities, companies and wider society, with its effects expected to continue for the foreseeable future. The pandemic has not only highlighted the importance of companies tackling issues around poor working conditions and economic inequality. It has also reinforced the need for good governance structures as companies re-focus their efforts on crisis management and business continuity.
Top of the class: do SRI-focused endowments perform better?
By George O. Aragon, Arizona State University, Yuxiang Jiang, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Juha Joenvӓӓrӓ, Alto University School of Business and Cristian Ioan Tiu, University at Buffalo ACADEMIC BLOG Does the adoption of a responsible investment policy benefit the investors who choose to do so? University endowments represent an ideal laboratory to study this question because these entities seek investment returns.
Do managers boost short-term performance at the expense of long-run value?
ACADEMIC BLOG The managerial myopia debate Institutional investors and policymakers frequently express concern about managerial short-termism.
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