The University of California today (Oct. 21) became the first U.S. pension plan and endowment fund to sign the Japan Stewardship Code, which aims to promote responsible and sustainable economic growth ...

There will be “significant revisions” to the U.K. Stewardship Code application process, in part to reduce the reporting burden on participants, according to a statement by the code’s organizing body, ...

On the go: The Financial Reporting Council’s stewardship code must “look both ways” and engage members as well as asset managers in developing guidance and standards, according to fintech company ...

In September, 12 asset allocators and managers announced that they had signed on to a new stewardship code that committed them to transitioning their investment portfolios to net-zero greenhouse gas ...

The Democratic Party of Korea is pushing a plan to reflect stewardship code compliance evaluations when selecting delegated asset management firms that operate National Pension funds. The aim is to ...

In November 2019, we reported that the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (the “FRC”) had issued a revised Stewardship Code (the “Stewardship Code”) which came into effect from 1 January 2020 (see our ...

On the go: The Financial Reporting Council says it has received significantly more applications than expected for the second round of its UK Stewardship Code. A further 100 companies applied to be a ...

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Nguyen, Trang T., and Charles CY Wang. "Stewardship Codes and Shareholder Voting on Disputed Ballot Measures." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-035, September 2019.