ShareAction, the responsible investment organisation, have welcomed today’s announcement of the FRC’s Stewardship Code tiering exercise. “We welcome this valuable exercise by the FRC,” said ShareAction...
Investors at BP and Shell are being encouraged to use binding votes on pay in 2017 to hold the oil corporations responsible on their transition for commercial resilience...
Responsible investment charity ShareAction has launched an online action enabling people to email Steve Easterbrook, the CEO of McDonald’s Corporation, calling on him to stop the...
Marks & Spencer’s AGM today will be attended by Citizens UK, ShareAction, Craftivist Collective and Care2 who will urge the retailer to not only continue staff...
Board members at Kingfisher’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) tomorrow will be called upon to pay B&Q staff the Living Wage set out by the Living Wage...
The Transparency Task Force have appointed the Chief Executive of ShareAction as its Ambassador. The Transparency Task Force is campaigning for greater transparency in financial services...
Catherine Howarth joined ShareAction in July 2008, having previously been the founder and lead organiser of West London Citizens. Earlier in her career she was Senior...
Over 2,000 votes have been cast. Our transferable vote system means every single vote cast. On average, voters express a preference for seven candidates, meaning there...
For the patient and painstaking work on raising awareness and driving action for responsible ownership amongst institutional investors. The pension funds who are responsible for the...
We asked a small jury of 12 friends, readers and supporters to come up with a short list of the people we all think have made...
Following the Government’s decision to reject the Law Commission’s recommendation that pension trustees should take account ESG issues, we spoke to Catherine Howarth, Chief Executive of ShareAction, about...
Today an unprecedented gathering of some of the world’s leading figures from the finance sector are meeting at the historic Guildhall in the City of London with carbon...
ShareAction today welcomed the PRI’s report “Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century”. ShareAction has long stressed the need for greater clarity on the extent and nature...
National Grid’s decision to accredit as a Living Wage employer brings the total number of FTSE 100 companies that have announced or applied for accreditation with...
Ahead of oil giant BP’s annual general meeting next week, a number of major investors have announced their support for a shareholder resolution on climate change...