Stewardship Code

The National Employment Savings Trust is set to take a more prominent role in shareholder activism and sustainable and responsible investment lobbying.

Mercer has launched a service to help trustees and other institutional investors meet their stewardship requirements.

NEST has signed up to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing in a bid to boost long term investing and good corporate governance.

Stewardship practices should focus more on the actions of individual investors instead of trustees due to their shrinking role in equity investment, industry figures say.

Onerous pension accounting and regulatory standards could be driving funds to take a shorter-term view on investments, undercutting responsible ownership, delegates heard.

The Financial Reporting Council is set to encourage fund managers to avoid conflicts of interest and pursue more collective engagement to boost stewardship standards.

More than 90% of institutional investors now vote on shares they hold in UK companies due to increasing adherence to the UK Stewardship Code, a survey reveals.

Gearing equity mandates towards outperforming quarterly benchmarks could be undermining attempts to improve long-term investing, Aviva Investors says.

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The Financial Reporting Council wants to boost the strength of the UK Stewardship Code by monitoring the quality of communication between companies and shareholders.