Investment Stewardship
To find out how companies are performing on integrating ESG factors, fund managers may meet or consult executives and directors. The information they gather could influence the way they vote at shareholder meetings. For example, they may vote against a proposal if the company has not responded to questions about ESG issues or it they feel it is not acting in the long-term interests of its shareholders.
This process of engaging with company executives is known as stewardship, and its aim is to promote the long-term success of investments.
We carefully monitor the funds we offer through our Workplace pensions, and we expect all the fund managers we work with to outline how they engage with companies on ESG issues. In addition, we require them to measure the effectiveness of their strategy for engaging with companies in terms of how it benefits members of pension schemes and other investors. We also encourage fund management companies to become signatories of the PRI and the UK Stewardship Code.
Each of the fund management companies we work with is expected to have a shareholder engagement policy that complies with the EU’s Shareholder Rights Directive II. This directive is designed to encourage greater transparency on stewardship issues and make it easier for investor to understand their investments.
Read our Shareholder Engagement Policy
Shareholder Engagement Policies
In the list below you will find website links to the shareholder engagement policies of the fund management companies whose funds are available through the Workplace Investing Platform. This should also detail how they implement these policies.
List of links (click on name to take you to the information)
- Aberdeen Standard Investments
- Acadian Asset Management LLC
- AQR Capital Management
- Ardevora Asset Management LLP
- Artemis Fund Managers Ltd
- Aviva Investors Pensions Ltd
- Baillie Gifford & Co Ltd
- Baring Asset Management Ltd
- BlackRock Life Limited
- BMO Fund Management Ltd
- BNY Mellon Fund Managers Ltd
- Dodge & Cox Worldwide Investments Ltd
- Fidelity
- Fulcrum Asset Management LLP
- GMO UK Ltd
- Hermes Investment Management Ltd
- HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Ltd
- Impax Asset Management Ltd
- Insight Investment Funds Management Limited
- Invesco Fund Managers Ltd
- Janus Henderson Investors
- JO Hambro Capital Management Ltd
- JP Morgan Life Ltd
- Jupiter Unit Trust Mangers Ltd
- Kames Capital PLC
- Lazard Asset Management Ltd
- Legal & General Investment Management Ltd
- Legg Mason Investment Funds Ltd
- Lindsell Train Ltd
- M&G Securities Ltd
- M&G (Guernsey) Ltd
- Ninetyone Fund Managers Ltd
- Prudential Pensions Ltd
- Majedie Asset Management Ltd
- Morgan Stanley Investment Management Ltd
- MFS International Ltd
- Nordea Investment Funds S.A.
- Partners Group UK Ltd
- Pimco Europe Ltd
- Pzena Investment Management LLC
- RBC Global Asset Management UK Ltd
- River & Mercantile Asset Management LLP
- Russell Investments Ltd
- RWC Partners Ltd
- Sands Capital Management LLC
- Schroders Pension Management Ltd
- State Street Global Advisors Ltd
- Stewart Investors
- Colombia Threadneedle Investments
- Trilogy Global Advisers International LLP
- UBS Asset Management Funds Ltd
- Veritas Asset Management Ltd
- Wellington Management International Ltd
- WHEB Asset Management LLP
- T Rowe Price