In the constantly expanding world of environmental, social and governance, you need to make meaningful progress in managing and communicating your ESG risks and opportunities. But with such a diverse universe of ESG issues and ever increasing frameworks, providers and initiatives, it can be challenging to know where to focus.
To set and implement your company’s specific ESG strategy, you must coordinate across your organisation to reach consensus and stay on track, while ensuring the board has everything it needs to create value now and in the future. Georgeson’s ESG advisory services help you understand your own, unique ESG landscape, advance your ESG practices and communicate with investors effectively.
Gain clarity on the ESG preferences of your investors so you can prioritise your time and resources effectively.
Map disclosures and current practices to the ESG standards and frameworks your investors prefer. Understand how you measure up to peers.
Understand the ESG proposal landscape and how to respond and manage. Learn how your investors will react and vote, and how proxy advisors may influence voting outcomes.
Make sense of your ratings, identify errors, identify disclosure gaps, resolve issues and learn how to engage ratings providers.
Provide your board and management with the focused ESG knowledge they need to reach peak proficiency and engage in ESG discussions with investors.
Engage with your investors in a meaningful way using specific insight, preparation and a detailed understanding of investor objectives.
Establish or improve a plan for tailored ESG reporting based on your company’s business objectives that takes into account investor expectations.
Set an ESG strategy and implementation plan that integrates into your business objectives and other disclosures while setting measurable goals.
The statistics are in. Investors are putting more weight on issuer ESG practices. We've researched the ESG policies and practices of 400 of the largest global institutional asset managers and owners, and the overwhelming majority (90%) disclosed using and integrating ESG considerations in their investment/stewardship activities.
In 2023, investors pressured issuers to deliver greater returns while being more astute with capital expenditure and managing their social licence to operate. What does this mean for corporate governance in 2024?
We put together a list of some of the most prominent frameworks, raters and rankers, organisations and initiatives Issuers should understand.
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With Georgeson, you’ll have a global team of ESG experts that bring diverse backgrounds, including proxy advisor, legal, investor stewardship, equity analyst, ESG analyst and corporate secretary experience, to extend your resources and roadmap a strategy to meet your ESG goals.
Our team spans the globe, with experts in the United States, Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom