AGM trends: ‘Companies need to consider climate to avoid adverse publicity’
Greater scrutiny across all ESG factors as online meetings double over past year
Shareholder engagement
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Investors can make large sports events more sustainable
Quilter Cheviot’s Woodward discusses companies’ indirect climate impact through sponsorship of sporting events
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EQ Investors joins Better Business Act
B Lab UK-led campaign to change the law so that every UK company takes ownership of its social and environmental impact
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LGIM ditches four companies for lack of climate change disclosure
Ditches companies from the banks, insurance, utilities and food sectors from £58bn fund range
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Shareholders pressure Morrisons to up healthy food targets
Investors send letter to supermarket chair ahead of AGM
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Insurers don’t assess asset managers’ sustainability
New ShareAction report finds 24% of insurers don’t analyse asset managers’ responsible policies
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Podcast: Half of asset managers don’t disclose corporate engagement
The full interview from episode four of ESG Out Loud
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Shareholders withdraw resolution as Tesco sets new healthy food targets
Supermarket’s new commitments cover all its group retail business – an additional £10bn in sales
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Shareholders ‘cannot sit back and relax’ despite HSBC’s coal funding vote
The bank has tabled a resolution that commits it to phasing out financing of coal-fired power and thermal coal mining
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Investment companies: Having your say
Shareholders in investment companies have more options than to just vote with their feet, says the AIC’s Annabel Brodie-Smith
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Asset managers: Virtual AGMs are no replacement for in-person meetings
Commentators anticipate ‘hybrid AGMs’ will be the new norm
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Asset managers: Virtual AGMs are no replacement for in-person meetings
Commentators anticipate ‘hybrid AGMs’ will be the new norm