Faith Ward
“Climate change dominates and executive remuneration is regularly on the list of enquiries, but last year was the first time I had a stakeholder enquiry about how we look at sexual harassment in terms of engagement.” Faith Ward, Brunel Pension Partnership
spective and then use that to engage with companies. We do not have a single perfect answer. This is a journey for most managers, but that’s absolutely where some of the focus needs to move to. We are working through these issues about how to join both sides of the balance sheet to come up with a more powerful approach to ESG engagement using what we do across equities and credit. McAllister: A lot of this discussion has been risk focused. Our sustainable funds have themes like sugar reduction and there’s a bunch of investment opportunities coming up off the back of other such sustain- able trends. That is where I find it transforms a conversation from: “We don’t like this,” to, “we like this”. It is trying to be defined by what you hold rather than what you don’t. That makes the conversation more positive. Ward: That is where the SDGs have been a helpful framework in identifying positive themes. Williams: It is also a useful for measuring impacts as well. Barazal: When we talked about ESG 10, 20 years ago it was about scaring people. Today everybody owns the story because they are conscious of it. And it is not just about looking at the risk but also mak- ing the most of this opportunity. This helps getting a more fruitful way to engage with companies and just as importantly with all investors in a dialogue about best practices and their impact of stakeholders.
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