...panies’ ESG strategy and performance. Assets in sustainable funds continue to hit record-breaking heights and investor stewardship goals increasingly relate to business‑relevant environmental and social priorities. To in...

...ps to improve their processes and practices around board composition, board succession, and board evaluation. Investor stewardship efforts during the past five years have led to higher levels of significant opposition to...

Life is filled with incongruities: working vacations, old news, friendly takeovers, to name just a few. Along those same lines in investing, we have what Morningstar would dub good companies with bad stewardship. These are companies that have carved out significant advantages (or economic moats) and are therefore quite likely to withstand the slings and arrows from competitors, but they've built those moats in spite of what we consider ...

...nt and Growth, we thought it useful to consider in broader context the key issues of corporate governance and investor stewardship today. While there is no universal consensus, the question underlying these issues can be...

For decades, investors have recognized the importance of good corporate governance as a contributor to a companys long-term prospects. Recent years have seen a growing consensus that good environmental stewardship can enhance returns, as well...

... voting tactics to tilt corporate governance towards what... Even so, Mr Booraem says there is a trend in the investor stewardship space away from an over-reliance on voting towards the soft-power tactics of "engagement"...

...sis clearly shows that trust in business relies upon an effective accountability framework based on proactive investor stewardship, strong corporate governance and relevant and reliable corporate reporting. To improve th...

... on the maximum number of boards where a director may serve simultaneously. In the era of ESG integration and investor stewardship, one cannot view the new trends in overboarding criteria in isolation. In the past decade...