All Stewardship articles
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Case studiesEngagement International: Addressing responsible tax
Engagement International helps institutional investors act as active responsible owners through corporate engagement.
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Case studies
MN: Collaborating through Platform Living Wage Financials
As an investment manager for pension funds, we look to create long-term value for our clients and their beneficiaries and consider stewardship as central to realising this.
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PRI Web Page
Call for case studies: Leading Stewardship Practice
In 2019, the PRI released Active Ownership 2.0, a framework for the more ambitious stewardship needed to deliver against beneficiaries’ interests and improve the sustainability and resilience of the financial system.
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Blogs
How compatible is shorting with responsible investment?
By Toby Belsom, Director of Investment Practices, PRI
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Discussion Paper
Shorting and responsible investment: A review
The PRI has a growing number of signatories that allocate to investment strategies that use shorting. These signatories also seek to adhere to the PRI’s six Principles.
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Discussion Paper
Embedding ESG factors in investment mandates
Investment mandates are a valuable and often underutilised tool for asset owners to signal ESG requirements to asset managers.
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Thought Leadership
Broadening the outreach to investment consultants
Investment consultants are critical stakeholders in the investment chain, advising institutional asset owners on a range of issues, including the selection, appointment and monitoring of external managers. They can play a key role in supporting asset owners to develop responsible investment practices, and to assess their investment managers’ ESG incorporation ...
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Engagement guide
Responsible cobalt sourcing: Engagement results
This report summarises the outcomes of the PRI-supported collaborative engagement on responsible cobalt sourcing between 2018 and 2020
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Blogs
How should responsible investors secure better boards?
By Emmet McNamee, Senior Specialist, Stewardship, PRI
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Podcast
Climate stewardship and universal ownership: reflections from 2021’s AGM season
Drawing on insights from 2021’s AGM season, this PRI podcast episode dives into the subject of achieving meaningful outcomes through investor stewardship, particularly in the context of climate action and decarbonisation.
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Webinar
The future of participatory stewardship: bringing beneficiaries into RI dialogue
This webinar explored the trend of participatory stewardship, covering how investors can and are using beneficiary opinion on ESG issues to improve stewardship outcomes and engage members.
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Case studies
Engaging external managers on sustainable investment
Organisation name: Cardano Region of operation: Global Signatory type: Investment manager Assets under management: We provide fiduciary management services to 30 UK pension funds with combined assets of £16bn and investment advice to 10 UK pension funds with combined assets of £50bn. We also provide LDI execution and derivative overlay ...
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Case studies
Improving responsible investment through manager engagement
Organisation name: Aware Super Signatory type: Asset owner Region of operation: Australia Assets under management: AU$144bn Why we engage with managers after their appointment Responsible investment is an integrated part of our due diligence process. Engagement with managers after their appointment can result in a more collaborative relationship and ...
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Webinar
Shareholder resolutions: voting in support of outcomes
In this webinar, we will explore how investors can use shareholder resolutions to support the pursuit of real-world outcomes.
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Thought Leadership
Mapping natural capital depletion
As natural capital is depleted, it loses its capacity to support the ecosystem services upon which businesses, economic activities and broader society depend. PRI collaborated with UNEP-WCMC to developed maps to showcase hotspots of relative natural capital depletion on a global scale, available for visualisation in ENCORE, accompanied by a ...
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Webinar
PRI Canada: Deep Dive into the Evolution of Listed Equity Active Ownership
Join us to learn more about Active Ownership 2.0, hear from Canadian signatories on putting this into practice, and discuss what stewardship reporting looks like in the new reporting framework.
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Podcast
Making voting count: principle-based voting on shareholder resolutions
In this podcast, the PRI’s Chloe Horne speaks with Susheela Peres da Costa, Head of Advisory at Regnan and Jake Barnett, Director of Sustainable Investment Services at Wespath about the PRI’s recently published paper – Making Voting Count.
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Discussion Paper
Making voting count: principle-based voting on shareholder resolutions
How principle-based voting on shareholder resolutions can contribute to clear, effective and accountable stewardship
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Thought Leadership
The evolution of responsible investment: an analysis of advanced signatory practices
This report delves into which practices have shifted to become the norm, and which ones remain advanced, suggesting that they are more challenging to implement.
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Introductory guide
An introduction to responsible investment: stewardship
This introductory guide explains the importance and relevance of stewardship within responsible investment and outlines the stewardship tools investors can incorporate into policies, processes and practices.
