Minerva wins top industry award

Minerva wins top industry award

Minerva has scooped an award from the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) for excellence in corporate governance.

Minerva won the Excellence in Corporate Governance Award for 2020 after being selected by an independent …

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Write down governance standards to improve them, study finds

Write down governance standards to improve them, study finds

Organisations and people are more likely to commit to a higher standard of corporate governance if their purpose is written down, according to research by Washington University in St Louis.

The …

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Dalriada Trustees selects Minerva for implementation statements reporting

Dalriada Trustees selects Minerva for implementation statements reporting

Dalriada Trustees, one of the UK’s largest independent trustee firms, has selected Minerva Analytics to carry out vital duties for its pension fund clients related to the newly introduced implementation statement.

Dalriada, …

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SEC lambasted over shareholder rights change as companies fail to meet ESG targets

For some companies, the ability for shareholders to have a voice is a source of constant annoyance.

For proxy voting agents, such as Minerva, understanding the rules of the game and where the lines are drawn is key.

Shareholder rights …

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Shareholder Rights Directive pensions trustees

The UK government has outlined what it expects of pensions trustees under the new Shareholder Rights Directive II (SRD II), in an announcement made this month.

SRD II was introduced to improve transparency and stewardship of occupational pensions schemes so …

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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, …

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FRC and FCA target new, rigorous stewardship regime,
SRDII implementation begins, ESG resourcing questioned

In the latest round of consultations and discussion documents, the UK’s governance and financial markets regulators have laid out their “substantially higher expectations for investor stewardship …

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BlackRock is among the companies targeted for its lobbying payments

A coalition of at least 74 investors has filed resolutions at 50 US companies asking for more disclosure of payments for lobbying, including to trade associations. The resolutions have been coordinated by Walden Asset Management and American Federation of State, County

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climate risks

The chair of the UK’s House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has written to the top 25 pension funds in the UK to ask how they manage climate risks and their potential impact on pension savings as part of its …

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lobbying

The US investment giant, BlackRock, has stated that is responding to the recent school shooting in the US by engaging with firearms manufacturers and retailers to understand what they are doing to reduce the risk of this kind of …

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