Asset Stewardship

To fulfill our asset stewardship responsibility, we rely on two main tools: voting at shareholder meetings and engaging with companies.

Our approach

The aim of our Asset Stewardship program is to promote robust governance, including board oversight, and disclosures.

The board of directors is accountable for overseeing a company’s material risks and opportunities and providing adequate disclosure of such. Therefore, the board is the main focus of our engagement and voting activities. We focus on electing capable directors and holding them accountable for disclosure and effective oversight of a company’s long-term strategy.

Our proxy voting and engagement principles

We have organized our proxy voting and engagement program around three broad principles:

1

Effective board oversight

We believe that well-governed companies can protect and pursue shareholder interests better and withstand the challenges of an uncertain economic environment.

2

Disclosure

It is important for shareholders to receive timely and accurate reporting of a company’s financial performance and strategy so that they are able to assess both the value and risk of their investment.

3

Shareholder protection

We believe it is in the best interest of shareholders for companies to have appropriate shareholder rights and accountability mechanisms in place.

Annual asset stewardship report

Our 2024 annual report describes our approach to asset stewardship and highlights our activities for the year.

Leadership

Benjamin Colton

Global Head of Asset Stewardship

Benjamin and his colleagues are responsible for developing and implementing our global proxy voting policies and guidelines across all investment strategies and managing our proxy voting activities and issuer engagements. Prior to Ben’s current role, he was the Asset Stewardship’s team Head of Asia Pacific based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Asset Stewardship

Our approach

Our proxy voting and engagement principles

View our voting and engagement policy and activity

Leadership

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