Sustainable Stewardship & Shareholder Voting

Welcome to Minerva Analytics, the home of Manifest – the independent stewardship support service.

Minerva empowers investors to make informed, sustainable voting decisions with quality ESG data and easy to use software.

In a rapidly change investment world, there is a lot at stake for stewardship: trust, integrity, reputation and value. We help investors achieve their stewardship goals with:

State of the art electronic voting platform
Smooth, seamless voting administration
Custom vote policies with integrated sustainability guidelines
Objective, conflict-free processes
Comprehensive ESG data, bench-marking and reporting tools

Minerva – closing the information gap

Minerva’s proxy voting systems are designed from the ground up to make consistent and informed voting easy. With highly-customised voting policy templates and transparent rationales, investors can be assured of a stewardship approach which reflects their own unique stewardship approach.

Data-driven Governance Insights

What you don’t know can harm you. Minerva’s insight-driven data and policy frameworks deliver powerful and objective decision support.

Stewardship is an increasingly data-intensive business process. Minerva’s new generation data management tools and proven data mastery move stewardship beyond compliance to data exploration so improving the speed and quality of decision-making. Minerva can help you realize material efficiency gains, improve the quality and speed of reporting, as well as supporting performance and regulatory goals.

Minerva – Global Shareholder Voting Experts

Minerva can:

Streamline global shareholder voting, significantly reduce costs, improve operational efficiency and minimise risks;
Intelligently navigate the complexities of global governance disclosures to deliver actionable and defensible stewardship insights; and
Integrate sustainability stewardship metrics at the point of AGM to support seamless integration of UN Global Compact, Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) and Financial Stability Board Climate Change Taskforce (TCFD) recommendations.

Diverse Data, Smarter Stewardship

During the busy proxy season time is money. With better data, software and knowledgeable support, asset owners and managers can focus on informed engagement leaving the operational complexities of governance data and vote management to an expert team which truly puts shareholders first.

TCFD: 2018 Status Report (September 2018)

“TCFD offers companies and investors important tools to help realise sustainable investment opportunities. Minerva supports informed stewardship with shareholder voting research and guidelines which fully integrate TCFD’s guidance.”

Sarah Wilson, Chief Executive, Minerva Analytics Ltd
TCFD Supporter

Custom Vote Policy

Adaptable, defensible, and evidence-based global voting policies based on good practices from leading regulators, academics and investors. Local market standards can be blended with supra-nation policies including OECD, CII and ICGN. All voting policies are custom as standard with highly granular policy points that are flexibly applied.

Global Research

Global shareholder voting research and data based on consistent, comparable, and in-depth analysis. Integrated Say on Pay and Say on Sustainability modules allow you to vote your values with ease. All guidance is fully transparent with comprehensive audit trails.

Proxy Vote Agency

Let our seasoned vote agency team takes care of the minutiae of vote management and leave you free to concentrate on value-added engagement.

Minerva’s team are the pioneers of electronic voting and are fully ready for Shareholder Rights Directive II

Uncover insights from the trusted source of governance research data

CEO Pay Ratios

20% Vote Dissent

20 Years of CEO Pay

Minerva: diverse viewpoints

In the pursuit of secure investment returns, diverse viewpoints based on high-quality data and varied information are critical for portfolio construction. We believe that share ownership is no different. To turn today’s stewardship challenges into the next investment opportunity, investors need diverse perspectives on sustainable governance.

Stewardship: easier with the right data

Minerva’s clients can depend on us to inform and support their stewardship strategies with high quality governance reference data and secure vote execution solutions. If you are looking for a stewardship service partner who can support your individual needs with utmost integrity and highest levels of customisation, we are confident that Minerva can add value.

The social cost of failed stewardship

The social cost of failed stewardship “Eye-watering and unjustified CEO pay packages are corrosive of trust in business and threaten to undermine the public’s support for the way our economy operates.” That’s the conclusion of Rachel Reeves MP, Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee following publication of the Committee’s Eighteenth Report […]

Micro Focus: Transaction-based award resulting in excessive pay

Transaction-based awards and CEO pay

AGM Update: Following the 29 March AGM, Micro Focus disclosed that the Remuneration Report was defeated with a 50.4% vote against – on a non-binding basis. Shareholders have become accustomed to the concept of pay for performance, but pay for transactions rarely attract the same level of scrutiny. Micro Focus International plc (LON: MCRO) […]

Lonmin plc’s major shareholder opposing KPMG’s re-appointment

Audit-related voting still rare

Audit-related voting dissent still rare When it comes to audit-related voting, shareholders have traditionally paid less attention to audit issues than other governance issues. Using Minerva’s VoteWatch module, this week we’re looking at two topical cases: Lonmin plc and SIG plc. At platinum mining group Lonmin plc’s 2018 AGM 49.2% of the shareholder ballot withheld […]

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