2023 Top 50 Most Influential in ESG | 2022 Investment Manager of the Year | Chair of the Investor Coalition for Equal Votes | Accredited professional trustee | 2019 Investment Woman of the Year
Our latest Stewardship Report is out! This year's report (link in comments) includes 30-odd case studies covering a selection of what we consider to be of most interest to our members, regulators, peers and others. Highlights from this year's Report: ✅ Escalation in members' best interests: how Railpen seeks to use all the tools in the stewardship toolkit to achieve our objectives on material ESG issues ✅ Working with industry to advocate for continued investor protections: this covers our (ongoing) work both with the Investor Coalition for Equal Votes (ICEV) but also with several hundred billion £ of scheme AUM on recent proposals to roll back important shareholder rights in the UK ✅ Integration beyond listed equity: Railpen is a significant private markets and infrastructure investor - and there are some great case studies highlighting how we continue to deepen our approach ✅ Greater accessibility: this is necessarily a lengthy report, but this year - as well as our usual glossary - the Design and Comms team has worked hard to improve navigation so that readers who aren't ESG experts can more easily cut through the jargon and move between relevant case studies and sections As always, this has also required significant contributions from colleagues beyond the Sustainable Ownership team. However, we welcome the additional opportunity for formal reflection and to produce a report we are proud of. We also find the stewardship reports we receive from our managers to be the most useful firm-level reporting produced: we read these cover to cover and they always provide us with helpful information as to what is (and isn't) being done on our members' behalf. My ongoing thanks to the Financial Reporting Council for creating and upholding a Code that gives investors the space to discuss their idiosyncrasies and what worked (or didn't work), and thereby produce insightful reporting. My bottom-of-the-heart thanks to colleagues from Design, Communications, Fundamental Equity, Public Markets, Internal Audit, Client Secretariat, HR, Compliance, the DE&I Committee as well as the Trustee and many more for their ongoing commitment, enthusiasm and support both for this report and the work which underpins it: this would, as always, not have been possible without you. Michael Marshall Adam Gillett Jessica J Cassey David Vyravipillai Sophie Harris Thomas Ward Shane McCullagh, CFA Jasmine Porter Megan Williamson Becks Goodman Colin Mitchell Paul O'Donnell Laura Faber Claire Morrell Philip Wood MCMI Jonathan Clark Johanna Venis MCIPS Caroline Hopper James Herbert Stuart Mackintosh Fenella Cuthbert Josh Sarson
2023 Top 50 Most Influential in ESG | 2022 Investment Manager of the Year | Chair of the Investor Coalition for Equal Votes | Accredited professional trustee | 2019 Investment Woman of the Year
1moReport can be found at: www.railpen.com/knowledge-hub/reports/stewardship-report-2023/