Name: Minerva Briefing - Greenwashing
Start: 2022-04-12T13:00:00Z
End: 2022-04-12T13:00:11.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

The Minerva Analytics BrightTALK channel is here to keep you informed on the latest developments in ESG investing and stewardship. Minerva empowers professional investors with the essential tools and critical data to make informed, sustainable stewardship and proxy voting decisions. Our comprehensive and tightly integrated solutions support better stewardship with high quality and material ESG data; independent and objective research; the latest technology; and secure, confidential vote administration.

During this webinar, Minerva's Senior Stewardship Analyst, Thomas Bolger will offer valuable insights into the 2023 proxy season, delving into voting patterns across three significant regions: Europe, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The analysis focuses on three indices calculated by Solactive, Minerva's parent company. We'll also provide key insights from 2023 and examine trends dating back to 2019.

Minerva helps investors and stakeholders overcome disclosure complexity with robust, objective research and voting policy tools. Users can quickly and easily identify departures from good practice based on their own individual preferences, and local market requirements, or apply a universal good practice standard across all markets.

For more information, please email hello@minerva.info or call + 44 (0)1376 503500

Speakers:

Maria Barata- Account Executive, Minerva Analytics Ltd.
Thomas Bolger - Stewardship Director, Minerva Analytics Ltd.

2023 Proxy Season Review

The purpose of the annual Forum is to allow all types of stakeholders to discuss the proxy voting advisory and research industry and its Best Practice Principles (BPP).

The BPP Oversight Committee (BPP OC) annual review of the BPP and the public compliance statements of each BPP Signatory will be presented and discussed at the Forum with investors, listed companies, regulators and stakeholders.

The Forum is convened by the BPP OC as mandated by the 2019 Best Practice Principles for Providers of Shareholder Voting Research & Analysis. The five members of the BPP Group (BPPG) represent: Federated Hermes EOS, Glass Lewis, ISS,  Minerva Analytics, PIRC.

Panel Discussion: Principle One: Service Quality

Bruce Duguid, Head of Stewardship, EOS
Georgina Marshall, Global Head of Research, ISS
Valerio Novembre, Senior Policy Officer, ESMA 
Luz Rodriguez, Director of Corporate Governance and Legal Services, Colorado PERA
Maria Larsson, Senior legal advisor, Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

Moderated by: Michael Herskovich, Global Head of Stewardship & Proxy Voting, BNP Paribas AM

Panel Discussion: Principle Two: Conflict of interest avoidance or management

Jared Brandman, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, National Vision 
Nichol Garzon-Mitchell, Chief Legal Officer, SVP Corporate Development, Glass Lewis
Rob Hardy, ESG Corporate Governance Director, Capital Group

Moderated by: Amy Borrus, Executive Director, CII

Panel Discussion: Principle Three: communication policy 

Marine Corrieras, Division doctrine émetteurs, Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF)
Mary Francis, Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer, Chevron Corporation
Alan MacDougall, Founder & Managing Director, PIRC
Andy Mason, Head of Active Ownership, Aberdeen Standard Investments
Sarah Wilson,  Founder & CEO, Minerva Analytics

Moderated by: Hope Mehlman, CLO, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Discover

Annual Forum: BPP OC for providers of shareholder voting research & analysis

Inrate and Minerva join forces to offer global proxy voting services to the Swiss market.  A review of the 2023 proxy voting season, alongside a compilation of forthcoming developments and global trends, encompassing both Swiss and international contexts.

Minerva and Inrate partnership: ESG global proxy voting and 2023 voting review

As responsible investors dig deeper into ESG and sustainability considerations, the standard practice of negative screening for ESG norms is losing its efficacy. Now, investors are increasingly looking for the positive impacts they can have through their investments, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals potentially offer a more comprehensive approach to making this a reality.

This Minerva briefing introduces the importance of the SDGs to your fiduciary duties and how Minerva can help you include them in your stewardship efforts.

Minerva Briefing - Sustainable Stewardship and SDG Alignment

In this global review of shareholder voting in the ASX100, Minerva's Senior Stewardship Analyst, Thomas Bloger, discusses the latest trends in ESG and stewardship. Notably, 2022 has been a troubling year for ESG, with major anti-ESG sentiment on the rise in the US and greenwashing claims on the rise. Together with Communications Manager, Alex Whitebrook, Thomas discusses what this means for the 2023 proxy voting season to come.

2023 Australia AGM season preview

The world of responsible investing is difficult to navigate, with competing concepts all vying for your attention. So what is the difference between sustainable finance and ESG investing? This Minerva Briefing will answer those questions and demystify sustainable finance jargon for investors on the road to COP26.

Minerva Briefing - Acronyms to Action: Demystifying Sustainable Finance Jargon

In this global review of shareholder voting in the FTSE350, Minerva's Senior Stewardship Analyst, Thomas Bloger, discusses the latest trends in ESG and stewardship. Notably, 2022 was a troubling year for ESG, with major anti-ESG sentiment on the rise in the US and greenwashing claims on the rise. Together with Communications Manager, Alex Whitebrook, Thomas discusses what this means for the 2023 proxy voting season to come.

2023 Proxy Preview: ESG at the crossroads

In this global review of shareholder voting in the FTSE350, Minerva's Senior Stewardship Analyst, Thomas Bloger, discusses the latest trends in ESG and stewardship. Notably, 2022 has been a troubling year for ESG, with major anti-ESG sentiment on the rise in the US and greenwashing claims on the rise. Together with Communications Manager, Alex Whitebrook, Thomas discusses what this means for the 2023 proxy voting season to come.

2022 in review: ESG at the crossroads

2022 in review: Australia steps up

The lending of stocks, bonds and other assets is a straightforward concept with $24tn of securities available to borrow and $2.3tn on loan globally. With sustainable investing becoming mainstream, questions have arisen regarding whether securities lending is additive to or detracts from sustainability objectives. This webinar, hosted by Minerva Analytics and Solactive, brings together perspectives of securities lending from across the sector to answer how investors can be responsible for their lending.

Agenda:

2:00 PM - Introduction
2:03 PM - Speaker presentations
2:18 PM - Moderated Discussion & Audience Q&A
2:43 PM - Moderator closing statements
2:45 PM - End

Moderator:
Bob Currie - Editor, Securities Finance Times

Speakers:

David Crum - Managing Director, Asset Steward Solutions, Minerva Analytics Ltd.
Roy Zimmerhansl - Practice Lead, Pierpoint Financial Consultants Ltd.
Radek Stech - CEO, Global Principles for Sustainable Stock Lending

Sustainable securities lending - the next greenwashing scandal in the making?

2022 in review : ESG at the crossroads

This detailed briefing using Minerva data provides valuable insights into the 2022 UK proxy season, including the latest voting trends at the UK’s largest 350 companies.

Minerva helps investors and stakeholders overcome disclosure complexity with robust, objective research and voting policy tools. Users can quickly and easily identify departures from good practice based on their own individual preferences, and local market requirements, or apply a universal good practice standard across all markets.

For more information, please email hello@minerva.info or call + 44 (0)1376 503500

Speakers:

Alex Whitebrook - ESG Communications Manager, Minerva Analytics Ltd.
Thomas Bolger - Stewardship Director, Minerva Analytics Ltd.

2022 UK proxy season - Climate rises up the agenda

The Australian AGM season is around the corner. This Minerva briefing applies the latest voting trends and governance developments in the market, to inform you on what to expect in the 2022 season. Examining voting results in the ASX100 from the previous five years, and placing them within the wider context of corporate culture scandals, environmental concerns, and major regulatory changes, this briefing identifies key environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues that may inform voting decisions in the 2022 voting season.

Minerva helps investors and stakeholders overcome disclosure complexity with robust, objective research and voting policy tools. Users can quickly and easily identify departures from good practice based on their own individual preferences, and local market requirements, or apply a universal good practice standard across all markets.

For more information, please email hello@minerva.info or call + 44 (0)1376 503500

Speakers:

Alex Whitebrook - ESG Communications Manager, Minerva Analytics Ltd.
Thomas Bolger - Stewardship Director, Minerva Analytics Ltd.

Australia 2022 AGM season preview

Left unabated, the global costs of climate inaction are equivalent to losing between 5 and 20% of global gross domestic product each year, now and forever. Achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN SDGs requires a shift in investments of US$5 to US$7 trillion per year until 2030, with climate-related costs of inaction valued at US$1 trillion per year.
With this in mind, Minerva has launched a stakeholder survey for our clients and the wider investment community about their individual climate stewardship preferences. The survey is supported by Minerva’s latest Briefing – Climate Stewardship – which looks at the implications of Paris-aligned sustainable stewardship and the voting choices that investors currently face. Your feedback will help us to ensure that our research and voting guidelines meet client and market needs as we work towards net zero. We look forward to hearing from you. 

You may access the survey in the attachments below.

Minerva Briefing - Climate Stewardship

The recent boom in ESG investing has swept up investors from all backgrounds. From oil majors to day-traders, everyone is turning toward ESG funds to boost their green credentials. However, the boom has been accompanied by a stark increase in awareness of greenwashing. 

Our latest Minerva Briefing covers Greenwashing: What is it? How does it occur? And what decisions can you make as an investor to overcome it?

Minerva Briefing - Greenwashing

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