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Fundies use proxy voting

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... social contract' between a fund and its investors embodied in the fund's prospectus," he added. The study, titled 'Proxy Voting by Registered Investment Companies: Promoting the Interests of Fund Shareholders', revealed that where the fund managers used ...

Swiss sustainable FUM up 67 per cent

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... sustainable investment products or mandates as employing either negative screening, positive or best in class screening, proxy voting and using environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance analysis of the businesses. However the report stated ...

SWIFT overhauls proxy voting

... transparent 'audit trail' of proxy votes cast by fund managers and pension funds. The new system, called SWIFTNet Proxy Voting, has the potential to transform the way proxy votes are processed. Currently voting largely consists of faxed messages, manual ...

No more sustainable investment roadblocks: Russell

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2007
... sustainability concerns without violating legal requirements or compromising the quest for financial return, such as proxy voting and informal engagement with management. He did note, however, that the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and ...

VFMC busted investing with tobacco giant

... the coming months. "We are in discussions with our clients about setting appropriate policy in place and to have proxy voting and engagement on the issues," he said. Bone added, "we will develop our policies in response to this over the next few months. ...

Mercer to screen managers against ESG

... started reviewing fund managers regarding how actively they exercise 'active ownership' principles such as exercising proxy voting and participating in constructive shareholder engagement. Mercer IC has taken these steps following research that convinced ...

Investors get new platform for proxy voting

ISS Proxy Australia has launched an online corporate governance platform providing proxy voting and research to the Australian market. ISS Proxy Australia director operations, Dean Paatsch, says "Everything an informed analyst required to vote efficiently ...

ISS acquires Proxy Australia

... unit will be called Proxy ISS and will provide in-market research, service and expertise on corporate governance and proxy voting to institutional investors and superannuation funds. "Linking with a firm the calibre of ISS gives us global reach for our ...

IFSA acts to tighten fund manager voting policy

... Gilbert, IFSA's chief executive officer. "The new SIME will require fund managers to provide trustees with their proxy voting policies and report on their voting activities. While fund managers have been providing this information where requested, the ...
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