Proxy Voting, Stewardship Support & ESG Index Data Solutions

Minerva empowers professional investors with the essential tools and critical data to make informed, sustainable stewardship and proxy voting decisions.

Our comprehensive and tightly-integrated solutions support better stewardship with high quality and material ESG data; independent and objective research; the latest technology; and secure, confidential vote administration.

Minerva’s agile and responsive service is founded on principles of bespoke research, tailored voting guidance and highly customisable sustainability data to support modern stewardship strategies:

Advanced, scalable VoteTech to protect shareholder rights, bespoke policies to support split voting

Tailored ESG and Sustainability data sets for custom index solutions in partnership with Solactive

Objective, independent research and data to identify key sustainability governance risks and opportunities

Better Data = Better Stewardship

Minerva’s clients inform and support their stewardship strategies with high-quality, relevant sustainability governance and ESG data. With coverage of more than 70 markets and ~9,000 global companies, Minerva offers insights on Board Quality, Remuneration, Shareholder Rights, Financial Reporting, Stakeholder Governance, Product Controversies and UN Norms indicators.

Proxy Voting - Streamlined & Secure

Minerva simplifies proxy voting for a more straightforward, robust and compliant approach. Engagement letters, web reporting, securities lending support and easy onboarding – you can even transfer all your voting histories for continuity.

ESG Data

Minerva’s high-quality ESG research and data is robust, consistent, comparable, and in-depth. Integrated ESG, Sustainability and Climate Change guidelines enable easy values-based voting. All guidance is fully transparent with comprehensive audit trails.

Proxy Vote Agency

Minerva’s expert team takes care of the complexities of ESG and proxy voting leaving you free to concentrate on value-added engagement. Minerva’s pioneering team can ensure you are fully ready for the Shareholder Rights Directive II

Custom Policies

Why settle for overlay when you can have integrated, evidence-based voting policies based on global good practices. Local market standards can be blended with supra-national policies including OECD, CII, ICGN and IIGCC. All voting policies are custom as standard with highly granular policy points that are flexibly applied.

Vote your Values with Integrated TCFD, Climate Change & Sustainability Guidelines

Minerva gives investors a “Say on Sustainability” with a range of integrated stewardship tools including proxy research, custom proxy voting guidelines and sustainability governance ratings.

Sustainable Governance News from Minerva

Remuneration Retraction: ANZ Bonuses Pulled Amid Misconduct Scandal

Remuneration Retraction: ANZ Bonuses Pulled Amid Misconduct Scandal 11 November 2025 By Jack Grogan-Fenn Current and former executive members of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) have had A$32 million (U$20.9 million) in bonuses pulled following a high-profile bond misconduct scandal in one of the largest cases of Australian company compensation malus. […]

Elon Musk Tesla Shareholders CEO Pay Award

Tesla Trillion: Shareholders Approve Musk’s Significant CEO Pay Award

Tesla Trillion: Shareholders Approve Musk’s Significant CEO Pay Award 7 November 2025 By Jack Grogan-Fenn Shareholders at electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla have voted in favour of a high-profile U$1 trillion pay award for CEO Elon Musk which would see his position as the world’s richest person further solidified. While full voting results for the […]

Microsoft Shareholder Proposal No Action SEC

Shareholder Setback: Microsoft Excludes Proposal Despite Lacking ‘No Action’ Assent

Shareholder Setback: Microsoft Excludes Proposal Despite Lacking ‘No Action’ Assent 5 November 2025 By Jack Grogan-Fenn Tech giant Microsoft has controversially blocked a shareholder proposal from its AGM agenda without written ‘no action’ support from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ahead of its 5 December summit. The company asked the SEC in August to […]

Influencing Inequality: TISFD Paper Aims to Enhance “Clarity and Coherence”

Influencing Inequality: TISFD Paper Aims to Enhance “Clarity and Coherence” 4 November 2025 By Jack Grogan-Fenn The Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) has released a discussion paper as part of its efforts to bring “clarity and coherence” to understanding and addressing inequality and social issues. The recently published “Conceptual Foundations” discussion paper […]

Minerva - A Solactive Company

Since May 2019 Minerva has been a Solactive AG company. Solactive is an innovative index provider and financial data and technology provider that focuses on the development, calculation and distribution of tailor-made indices across all asset classes. As a Solactive company, Minerva operates from Frankfurt, Toronto and Hong Kong. Our ambition is to continue to expand our footprint in order to better serve our clients around the world.

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