Latest Special Reports – Page 120
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A duty to litigate?
The case for European pension funds to take part in US shareholder litigation is becoming so strong that not to do so could be regarded as a lack of fiduciary responsibility? Roy Jones, Darren Check and Daniel Summerfield explain
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Breaking down the barriers
While investor portfolios become more global investor knowledge on what their rights are as shareholders and how to exercise them in the cross-border context struggles to keep up – to put it mildly. Cue the new handbook from the Eurosif, Active Share Ownership in Europe. Eurosif notes that “the publication ...
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Strength in numbers
As the issue of corporate governance gains in importance so cooperation among shareholders on engagement issues has come to the fore as a vital tool in the management of pension fund portfolios. One prime example of this is the Netherlands. Michael Bruyn, director international client relations of Deminor highlights how ...
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Big European funds back UN investment principles
Some of Europe’s largest pension funds have signed up to the United Nations’ new set of six responsible investment principles. Signatories to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), launched at the New York Stock Exchange, include national pension funds in Norway, Ireland, France, Sweden as well as names such as ...
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Actions speak louder...
The Netherlands is a market which we generally consider to be among the most advanced in terms of institutional investing including attitudes to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). But when VBDO, the Dutch Sustainable Investment Association, looked at the voting behaviour of major Dutch institutional investors regarding 280 shareholder proposals at ...
