Governance and Stewardship

Protecting and enhancing your investments

As a leading global investment house, we have the financial strength and a professional reputation to open doors. And we take our responsibility as a shareholder very seriously. Where possible, we use our influence to encourage best practice standards in companies' management of social, environmental and governance issues.

Our fund managers see company policies and practices in these areas as an integral part of the investment process - all with a view to safeguarding the value of your investments.

Latest documents

We regularly engage with regulators on key policy issues. In this section youll find some examples of these activities.

Governance & Stewardship Annual Review

We recognise the importance of transparency and accountability when it comes to our stewardship responsibilities. To this end, we have published an annual review of our governance and stewardship activities, which provides an account of how we have fulfilled our responsibilities. Please select the link below to view the 2012 annual review.

 

Voting disclosure

We realise that many public commentators appreciate transparency in institutional investors' voting records. Select from the links below to find out more on our approach to disclosure, and search our published voting records.

Voting & Engagement Statistical Reports

We also publish statistical reports covering our voting and engagement activities, please select the below links to view our latest reports.