Net Zero Investor

Revealed: the influence of proxy advisers and ESG rating agencies on investor voting behaviour

Proxy advisers and ESG rating agencies have a significant impact on asset owners' engagement efforts and, ultimately, their voting decisions at AGMs

By Michiel Willems

Exclusive: Drastic misalignment in master trust shareholder climate votes at AGMs

Data scrutinised by Net Zero Investor shows that fund manager votes on climate-linked AGM proposals clash with master trust member preferences in a third of all cases

LGIM dials up net zero engagement as manager’s divestment list grows

Michael Marks, LGIM's head of investment stewardship, explains why the investment manager is increasingly engaging aggressively with its portfolio companies

Defined Benefit

London CIV’s responsible investment head sees ‘a disconnect between asset owners and managers’

Investment Manager

Can social issues and net zero challenges be separated in Asia?

Equities

Engagement hotspots: the unusual climate suspects

PLSA exclusive: ‘Careful with companies where there is value at risk’, says Railpen’s stewardship head

In an exclusive interview with NZI, Railpen's Caroline Escott talks stewardship, engagement and pension funds' role in driving net zero investments

By Michiel Willems

No-action requests: the SEC’s careful balancing act

Proxy season: Insurers and their largest shareholders flatly ignore net zero motions

SEC ‘no action’ requests: the justifications

Shell’s scope 3 emissions face scrutiny in fractious AGM

Stewardship and engagement: the passive funds conundrum

SEC ‘no-action’ requests: The issues companies don’t want to discuss

Investment Manager

Hollow words: Stewardship leads show continuing scepticism over offsets

Pensions

Shell’s upcoming AGM showcases the challenges for shareholder activism

Investment Manager

Investment giant ClearBridge is increasingly asserting its influence

Proxy season with a twist: The rise of the activist shareholder

This year’s proxy season has pushed a new set of actors to the forefront as environmental advocacy groups are making their presence felt at AGMs

Banking

No to net zero: Climate motions in America’s banking space seem doomed to fail

Interview

Lynn Forester de Rothschild: ‘Investors should engage more, not divest’

LGPS

BP shareholders dismiss net zero push during messy AGM

Banking

Banks are feeling the net zero proxy heat from critical asset owners

Investment Manager

Proxy gloves are off: Why Sarasin is going head to head with Equinor over net zero