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

US SEC Forced Shareholder Arbitration Clauses Atkins Proposals

SEC Hands Companies Power to Exclude Shareholder Proposals, Sparking Investor Backlash

SEC Hands Companies Power to Exclude Shareholder Proposals, Sparking Investor Backlash 19 November 2025 By Jack Grogan-Fenn The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will not respond to company ‘no action’ requests to exclude shareholder proposals during the 2026 proxy season, a move that hands unprecedented discretion to corporate management and threatens to sideline investor voices […]

AI Artificial Intelligence Bipartisan Bill

AI Answerability: US Bipartisan Bill Targets Corporate Job Loss Disclosure

AI Answerability: US Bipartisan Bill Targets Corporate Job Loss Disclosure 18 November 2025 By Jack Grogan-Fenn Two US senators have introduced a bill in an attempt to make companies answer for artificial intelligence-related (AI) job losses which could see corporates and federal agencies be compelled to disclose data to the US Department of Labor (DOL) in […]

Japan Corporate Governance Shareholder Companies

Challenging Corporate Governance: Japanese PM Swipes at Companies’ Shareholder Focus

Challenging Corporate Governance: Japanese PM Swipes at Companies’ Shareholder Focus 14 November 2025 By Jack Grogan-Fenn Japan’s Prime Minster Sanae Takaichi has condemned companies for having too great a focus on their shareholders and taking insufficient action to increase wages in the country. Takaichi reportedly said that she thinks there has “been a trend of […]

FRC, Stewardship Code, Corporate Governance Code

Reporting Reinforcement: FRC Issues Stewardship and Remuneration Guidance

Reporting Reinforcement: FRC Issues Stewardship and Remuneration Guidance 14 November 2025 By Jack Grogan-Fenn The UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published three new sets of reporting guidance, two focused on stewardship code reporting ahead of the update to the UK Stewardship Code in 2026 and the other on non-executive director (NED) remuneration. Key Client Takeaways: […]

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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