All Stewardship articles
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PRI Web PagePRI System Stewardship Advisory Committee (SSAC): call for members
The PRI is looking for signatories to join its System Stewardship Advisory Committee (SSAC).
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WebinarProxy season 2024: Voting trends and insights for 2025
What does this year’s proxy season activity tell us? This year’s proxy season webinar looks at trends and insights from ESG-related votes, spotlights outcomes from climate resolutions and discusses the outlook for 2025.
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Blog postThe defence sector in focus: Common ESG risks
Nikolaj Halkjaer Pedersen, Senior Lead at the PRI’s Human Rights and Social Issues team, says investors should be cautious before re-assessing their defence positions.
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Blog postSix takeaways from the 2024 proxy season - and why voting remains a critical tool for investors
Trends from the 850+ ESG-related shareholder resolutions, management proposals and director votes compiled on the PRI Resolution Database this proxy season.
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PRI Web PageCollaborative Sovereign Engagement on Climate Change
The Collaborative Sovereign Engagement on Climate Change is an investor-led, PRI-coordinated initiative to support governments to act on climate change.
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Blog postHow to maximise the value of proxy advisers
Josephine Notaras, PRI Sustainable Financial System team Manager, looks at the way investors use proxy advisers, where there are challenges in the voting chain, and how changes could be made.
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Thought leadershipHolding boards accountable for ESG: A business case
This article sets out the case for investors to ensure that investee company boards are held accountable when it comes to sustainability.
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Thought leadershipReport: Putting resources where stewardship ambitions are
This report by the Thinking Ahead Institute examines resourcing in stewardship.
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Discussion paperStewardship in private equity: A guide for general partners
This guide aims to help private equity general partners execute stewardship of their portfolio companies, partly by highlighting best practices for both beginners and leaders in stewardship.
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OtherInvestor initiatives
Various initiatives have been established to provide guidance and support for investor action on nature. Find below a list of key initiatives, networks and organisations in this space.
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PRI reporting analysisGlobal responsible investment trends: Inside PRI reporting data
This report finds that signatories have continued to enhance their RI practices, with RI policies becoming more detailed, action on sustainability outcomes more widespread and disclosures more in-depth since the 2021 reporting cycle.
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WebinarProxy season 2024: PRI tools and investor insights
This session explores trends from the 2023 proxy season and how these are shaping 2024 AGMs. PRI specialists introduce the resources we offer investors to help keep you up-to-date throughout proxy season. PRI signatories present their focus areas and approaches. Find out how to use PRI tools to support and ...
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WebinarApply to join Spring: PRI’s new stewardship initiative for nature
This session, co-organised by the PRI and ICGN, outlines practical resources and examples to help investors ensure that their managers’ approach to stewardship and sustainability are aligned with their own objectives.
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Introductory guideAn introduction to responsible investment: Infrastructure
What are the approaches to responsible investment for direct and indirect infrastructure investors?
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Blog postThis proxy season presents opportunities for leading stewards
Investors can address ESG risks by holding companies and managers to account, says Bonnie Groves, Stewardship Specialist at the PRI.
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WebinarStewardship for sustainability: designing mandates and evaluating managers
This session, co-organised by the PRI and ICGN, outlines practical resources and examples to help investors ensure that their managers’ approach to stewardship and sustainability are aligned with their own objectives.
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Technical guideDefinitions for responsible investment approaches
Investors benefit from common definitions that enable them to describe their responsible investment practices precisely and consistently. The PRI has collaborated with the CFA Institute and the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA) to refine and harmonise terminology. We have jointly defined the ‘essential elements’ of five responsible investment approaches: ‘screening’, ...
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News and pressInvestment industry heavyweights CFA Institute, GSIA and PRI announce harmonised definitions for responsible investment approaches
Leading organisations outline detailed definitions for the following responsible investment approaches: Screening, ESG integration, Thematic investing, Stewardship and Impact investing
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Blog postDo financial incentives drive the voting behaviour of ESG funds?
By Tao Li, The University of Florida; Lakshmi Naaraayanan, London Business School; Kunal Sachdeva, Rice University
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Blog postPRI in Person 2023 – Moving from commitments to action
By David Atkin, CEO, Principles for Responsible Investment
