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The Principles of the Stewardship Code and our Approach

 

There are 7 principles under the Stewardship Code.

Each principle is accompanied by guidance to help investors focus on how to meet the principles.
The principles are as follows:

 

Please click on the pdf icons to see our approach to each principle (pdf format)

 Principle 1: Institutional investors should publicly disclose their policy on how they will discharge their stewardship responsibilities.

 Principle 2: Institutional investors should have a robust policy on managing conflicts of interest in relation to stewardship and this policy should be publicly disclosed.

 Principle 3: Institutional investors should monitor their investee companies.

 Principle 4: Institutional investors should establish clear guidelines on when and how they will escalate their activities as a method of protecting and enhancing shareholder value.

 Principle 5: Institutional investors should be willing to act collectively with other investors where appropriate.

 Principle 6: Institutional investors should have a clear policy on voting and disclosure of voting activity.

 Principle 7: Institutional investors should report periodically on their stewardship and voting activities

 

 

Links to related information

 

 

 On our website
Our Stewardship Policy

Corporate Governance home page

Corporate Governance and Corporate Responsibility Voting Policy

Voting & Engagement disclosures

Investment tutor

Georgina Marshall Interview on the Stewardship Code
  On the FRC website
FRC website (Stewardship Code)

FRC website (UK Corporate Governance Code)


This code is primarily applied to relevant investments managed from the UK. For further clarification please contact one of the team.