Responsible investing

Holding boards to account

To be successful, companies need to be led by people who are well-equipped to create resilient long-term growth. By voting and engaging directly with companies, we encourage management to control risks while seeking to benefit from emerging opportunities. We aim to safeguard and enhance our clients’ assets by engaging with companies and holding management to account for their decisions. Voting is an important tool in this process, and one which we use extensively.

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Creating sustainable value

We believe it is in the interest of all stakeholders for companies to build sustainable business models that are also beneficial to society. We work to encourage companies to be well-positioned for sustainable growth and seek to prevent market behaviour that destroys long-term value. Our investment process includes an assessment of how well companies incorporate relevant ESG factors into their everyday thinking. We engage directly and collaboratively with companies to highlight key challenges and opportunities, and support strategies that seek to deliver long-term success.

Promoting market resilience

We believe it is essential that markets (and, by extension, the companies within them) can generate sustainable value. In doing so, we believe companies should become more resilient amid change, ultimately benefiting the whole market. We use our influence and scale to seek to ensure that issues affecting the value of our clients’ investments are recognised and appropriately managed. Significant environmental issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss remain a dominant theme of engagement as we continue to hold companies to account on their progress to net zero.