During this webinar, our experts, Caroline Le Meaux, Global Head of ESG Research, Engagement and Voting, and Luda Svystunova, Head of Social Research, conducted an in-depth analysis on how stewardship activities can enhance the long-term value of investment portfolios, providing key statistics and findings from our 2024 Engagement & Voting season.
Key Takeaways
- Environment, social and governance factors are key economic drivers, and therefore are material for investors.
- Companies that integrate sustainability in their strategy are better positioned for long-term investment success.
- Stewardship activities provide comprehensive risk management for investments, addressing both risks and opportunities to safeguard portfolios.
- For stewardship activities to be truly impactful, they should cover a broad scope, demonstrate significant depth, and maintain consistency.
- Our stewardship activities are performed by a dedicated team of +40 ESG and corporate governance analysts based in 5 different locations.
- We engage at the issuer level, including those in passively managed funds, covering more than 90% of MSCI World equities index and substantial portions of corporate debt.
- In 2024, we engaged with 2,883 companies evenly spread across Asia, Americas, and Europe, with over 50% engagements focused on climate issues.
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