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What We Do

PIRC has been providing trusted and expert advice for over 30 years.

Our experienced and talented team are dedicated to advising clients on securing the highest environmental, social and governance standards. Whether you’re new to responsible investment or an experienced investor, PIRC services are designed to enhance your ESG performance.

If you would like to know more about the advice we offer and how we can best support you, please get in contact with:

At PIRC we believe our clients are best served by us looking beyond corporate statements rather than just repeating them.

Our fearless approach to research produces insights not apparent from annual reports and sustainability disclosures. By doing so we equip our clients with a nuanced picture of risks that need to be managed.

For PIRC engagement success is not about how many comfortable conversations we’ve had with a company.

It’s about reducing ESG risks and delivering the changes clients demand. That’s why our specialist stewardship team is focused on building relationships with companies and boards based on effective dialogue and where necessary robust challenge.

Never afraid to take robust voting positions

PIRC advises and supports its clients to vote for changes needed to support the highest standards of corporate governance to protect shareholder value.

PIRC’s Local Authority Pension Performance Peer Group provides LGPS funds with a unique benchmark and essential insights into their investment performance.

Alongside our investment performance benchmark, PIRC provides a range of governance and engagement data focused squarely on supporting clients to make decisions with confidence.

For too long work has taken a backseat in responsible investment activity.

Despite its importance to value creation too many stewardship providers and investors have only ever paid lip service to decent work and good employment standards. PIRC’s specialist stewardship services are changing this.

Companies
Sectors
Climate change
Themes
Stakeholders
Policy
Bespoke research
PIRC Alerts
Watchlist

Designing engagement strategies
Meeting companies
Attending AGMs
Filing shareholder resolutions
Collaborative engagements
Our multi-stakeholder approach
Climate engagement
Reporting

Voting guidelines
Tailored guidelines
Proxy reports and voting
Vote execution
Climate votes
Quarterly monitoring
Asset manager analysis

Local Authority Peer Group Performance
Governance data
Governance risk rating
Climate data
Engagement

Data
Research reports
Engagement
Just transition
Events
Advice
Newsletter
Capital strategies

Responsible investment policies are the foundation on which ESG activities are built. We work with clients to produce policies and statements focused on their responsible investment priorities and designed to shape their ESG plans.

Industry codes help ensure clients are following responsible investment best practices. PIRC supports and advises clients on meeting standards such as the Stewardship Code and PRI reporting.

Regulation and government policy shape the environment in which responsible investors operate. To support the interests of long-term investors, PIRC advises clients on public policy matters, including, regulatory reforms, consultations, and engagement with the policymaking process.

PIRC provides training on the basics of responsible investment to the more technical aspects of the industry.

To help inform clients and their stakeholders, PIRC organises conferences and seminars to provide insights from industry leaders and stakeholders on responsible investment issues.

As part of our approach to transparency, we provide face-to-face feedback to clients on work undertaken on their behalf, including at pension committees and annual meetings of scheme members. PIRC also provides presentations and in person advice on ESG risks.

Climate change is a top concern for us and our clients. We offer a range of advisory services, including on climate policies, code compliance, training and presentations and briefings on emerging issues.

PIRC was founded by eight UK local authority pension funds in the 1980s and continues to this day its close relationship with the LGPS. PIRC has extensive knowledge and experience providing advice and support to funds and pools on their specific regulatory requirements and ESG needs as public-facing administering authorities.

We are committed to using data to understand your risks. PIRC’s global proxy research, covering every equity in our clients’ portfolios, alerts clients to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations and advise on engagement strategies.

Not all sectors face the same risks or behave in the same way. To help inform clients about specific responsible investment risks, PIRC produces bespoke reports for clients on different industrial sectors.

Climate change poses specific and significant risk to investors. Our research services offer client insights into company performance and emerging risks to help you assess and manage the responsible investment threats.

Some ESG issues can be overlooked or are just emerging. To support of our clients understand their risks, PIRC produces briefings and reports on specific environmental, social and governance issues.

Relying solely on company disclosures risks investors overlooking ESG threats. To provide a more comprehensive appraisal of risks, PIRC engages affected stakeholders and uses this information to produce reports and briefings for clients.

PIRC not only highlights risks but advises on how they can be addressed. To do so, PIRC produces reports and briefings to help clients develop governance and public policy positions and investor expectations documents.

PIRC works with clients to design research and reports tailored to meet the specific needs of clients. This can be a focus on specific sectors, themes, stakeholders and policies or a combination of them.

Our weekly client newsletter PIRC Alerts is a must view source of market, investor and company developments for the responsible investment community. The newsletter provides company-specific commentary, and news of market and regulatory developments. It is widely read in the City, and frequently quoted in specialist and national media. Our clients are entitled to an Alerts subscription. However, it can be ordered separately for an annual subscription.

As part of our offer to keep our clients informed about company developments, we produce a weekly PIRC Watch List. This newsletter keeps our clients up to date about company controversies, prominent responsible investment issues reported over the week, and ongoing concerns at companies with an imminent annual general or special meeting.

Each investor has their own specific portfolio and responsible investment policies. As such, each investor has their own set of ESG risks. PIRC therefore works with clients to design engagement strategies and objectives based on their own unique set of risks.

To change company behaviour and reduce investment risk, PIRC engages directly with company boards and representatives on ESG issues. PIRC sets meeting objectives and reports back to clients on the outcomes.

As part of our approach to effecting change through engagement, PIRC attends AGMs to meet and put questions direct to company boards.

Company policies and practices can at times be too slow to change. PIRC therefore supports clients escalate engagements by drafting and facilitating the filing shareholder resolutions.

PIRC enables clients to work with other investors to amplify the voice of shareholders through collaborative engagements.

PIRC’s unique approach to engagement includes engaging stakeholders on their concerns. This approach helps our clients more fully understand ESG risks facing investee companies and informs our company engagements.

Like our clients we recognise the urgency of ensuring companies are aligning their business plans to a decarbonised future. Our engagement team has decades experience engaging on climate issues coupled with detailed knowledge of specific sectoral issues. This winning combination helps us secure changes that our clients want to see at companies.

PIRC is committed to transparently reporting engagement activity. We provide clients with information, data and reports on engagement activity, including issues covered, type of activity, and outcomes.

Since the 1980s, PIRC has been at the forefront of developing best practice corporate governance guides. Based on this knowledge and experience, our Shareholder Voting Guidelines enables clients to exercise their ownership rights in a consistent and informed way.

PIRC’s voting service is flexible to the needs and interests of our clients. This includes working with clients to tailor voting guidelines to meet their specific responsible investment policies.

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations.

PIRC provides a vote execution service for all proxies in our client portfolios. Our service includes a client review and vote-change mechanism through our online platform ensuring you have complete control of voting decisions.

Climate change has become a significant part of AGM agendas. Our services ensure that clients have the information and advice to exercise their shareholder rights on climate change. To do so, PIRC provides research on company climate performance, voting guidance and advice on filing climate resolutions.

PIRC not only supports clients to exercise their voting rights, we also provide analysis of voting outcomes. This quarterly analysis enables clients to understand market concerns and support their own stewardship disclosures to beneficiaries and stakeholders.

Our voting analysis extends beyond aggregate market trends to examining the actions of specific managers. This analysis enables clients to understand how their managers and the main players in the market are voting, and how this might differ with client positions.

Founded on decades of experience and data, PIRC’s unique Local Authority Peer Group analysis supports LGPS funds wanting to improve investment scrutiny and outcomes.

PIRC’s LGPS investment peer group currently comprises 63 funds with an aggregate value of £266bn. This represents over two-thirds of local authority pension fund assets.

The Universe has 36 years of Fund and asset class level detailed historical data making it unique and increasingly essential to enable funds to view their investment performance within a long-term, peer group context that will enhance governance and improve decision making.

If you are interested in learning more, please contact, Karen Thrumble: karen.thrumble@pirc.co.uk

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks.

Based on decades of knowledge, PIRC’s governance risk rating model enables clients to identify threats in their portfolio. These insights are used to inform engagement strategies and assist portfolio construction.

Understanding investment risks requires a deep understanding of a company’s environmental performance. PIRC provides clients with environmental and climate change data on a company-by-company basis that is needed to inform their thinking and decision making.

Effecting change can take time. PIRC’s engagement database enables clients to track activity by issue, company, and outcome and supports clients own reporting to stakeholders.

PIRC has developed a unique dataset tracking company performance on workforce issues. This data helps clients identify risks and shape engagement activity.

Employment issues are often the least considered part of responsible investment. Our research reports on the world of work provide clients with original and valued insights specifically tailored for the investor community.

Using our expertise in labour issues, PIRC provides clients with a specialist engagement service to improve employment policies and practices.

The race to net zero has the potential to create jobs and growth, but could also have very negative implications for some workers and communities which pose their own ESG threats. PIRC therefore provides research, engagement, and advice to responsible investors on ensuring a just transition.

PIRC hosts events on employment issues which couple our in-house insights and with outside expertise to inform clients on employment risks.

PIRC provides advice on developing approaches on social issues. This advice includes the investor case for action, investor commitment on social and labour issues and understanding opportunities for influence.

In 2020, PIRC launched the first employment-focused ESG newsletter which provides clients with new perspectives into employment issues affecting investors.

PIRC supports clients to foster collaboration between workers and investors, including forming and participating in coalitions to effect change on labour issues.

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Advice

About

PIRC has been providing trusted and expert advice for over 30 years.

Our experienced and talented team are dedicated to advising clients on securing the highest environmental, social and governance standards. Whether you’re new to responsible investment or an experienced investor, PIRC services are designed to enhance your ESG performance.

If you would like to know more about the advice we offer and how we can best support you, please get in contact with:

Services

RI Policies

Responsible investment policies are the foundation on which ESG activities are built. We work with clients to produce policies and statements focused on their responsible investment priorities and designed to shape their ESG plans.
Learn More
Best practice code compliance

Industry codes help ensure clients are following responsible investment best practices. PIRC supports and advises clients on meeting standards such as the Stewardship Code and PRI reporting.
Learn More
Public policy

Regulation and government policy shape the environment in which responsible investors operate. To support the interests of long-term investors, PIRC advises clients on public policy matters, including, regulatory reforms, consultations, and engagement with the policymaking process.
Learn More
Training

PIRC provides training on the basics of responsible investment to the more technical aspects of the industry.
Learn More
Conference & seminars

To help inform clients and their stakeholders, PIRC organises conferences and seminars to provide insights from industry leaders and stakeholders on responsible investment issues.
Learn More
Presentations

As part of our approach to transparency, we provide face-to-face feedback to clients on work undertaken on their behalf, including at pension committees and annual meetings of scheme members. PIRC also provides presentations and in person advice on ESG risks.
Learn More
Climate change

Climate change is a top concern for us and our clients. We offer a range of advisory services, including on climate policies, code compliance, training and presentations and briefings on emerging issues.
Learn More
LGPS

PIRC was founded by eight UK local authority pension funds in the 1980s and continues to this day its close relationship with the LGPS. PIRC has extensive knowledge and experience providing advice and support to funds and pools on their specific regulatory requirements and ESG needs as public-facing administering authorities.
Learn More

Companies

We are committed to using data to understand your risks. PIRC’s global proxy research, covering every equity in our clients’ portfolios, alerts clients to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations and advise on engagement strategies.
Sectors

Not all sectors face the same risks or behave in the same way. To help inform clients about specific responsible investment risks, PIRC produces bespoke reports for clients on different industrial sectors.
Climate change

Climate change poses specific and significant risk to investors. Our research services offer client insights into company performance and emerging risks to help you assess and manage the responsible investment threats.
Themes

Some ESG issues can be overlooked or are just emerging. To support of our clients understand their risks, PIRC produces briefings and reports on specific environmental, social and governance issues.
Stakeholders

Relying solely on company disclosures risks investors overlooking ESG threats. To provide a more comprehensive appraisal of risks, PIRC engages affected stakeholders and uses this information to produce reports and briefings for clients.
Policy

PIRC not only highlights risks but advises on how they can be addressed. To do so, PIRC produces reports and briefings to help clients develop governance and public policy positions and investor expectations documents.
Bespoke research

PIRC works with clients to design research and reports tailored to meet the specific needs of clients. This can be a focus on specific sectors, themes, stakeholders and policies or a combination of them.
PIRC Alerts

Our weekly client newsletter PIRC Alerts is a must view source of market, investor and company developments for the responsible investment community. The newsletter provides company-specific commentary, and news of market and regulatory developments. It is widely read in the City, and frequently quoted in specialist and national media. Our clients are entitled to an Alerts subscription. However, it can be ordered separately for an annual subscription.
Watchlist

As part of our offer to keep our clients informed about company developments, we produce a weekly PIRC Watch List. This newsletter keeps our clients up to date about company controversies, prominent responsible investment issues reported over the week, and ongoing concerns at companies with an imminent annual general or special meeting.

Designing engagement strategies

Each investor has their own specific portfolio and responsible investment policies. As such, each investor has their own set of ESG risks. PIRC therefore works with clients to design engagement strategies and objectives based on their own unique set of risks.
Meeting companies

To change company behaviour and reduce investment risk, PIRC engages directly with company boards and representatives on ESG issues. PIRC sets meeting objectives and reports back to clients on the outcomes.
Attending AGMs

As part of our approach to effecting change through engagement, PIRC attends AGMs to meet and put questions direct to company boards.
Filing shareholder resolutions

Company policies and practices can at times be too slow to change. PIRC therefore supports clients escalate engagements by drafting and facilitating the filing shareholder resolutions.
Collaborative engagements

PIRC enables clients to work with other investors to amplify the voice of shareholders through collaborative engagements.
Our multi-stakeholder approach

PIRC’s unique approach to engagement includes engaging stakeholders on their concerns. This approach helps our clients more fully understand ESG risks facing investee companies and informs our company engagements.
Climate engagement

Like our clients we recognise the urgency of ensuring companies are aligning their business plans to a decarbonised future. Our engagement team has decades experience engaging on climate issues coupled with detailed knowledge of specific sectoral issues. This winning combination helps us secure changes that our clients want to see at companies.
Reporting

PIRC is committed to transparently reporting engagement activity. We provide clients with information, data and reports on engagement activity, including issues covered, type of activity, and outcomes.

Voting guidelines

Since the 1980s, PIRC has been at the forefront of developing best practice corporate governance guides. Based on this knowledge and experience, our Shareholder Voting Guidelines enables clients to exercise their ownership rights in a consistent and informed way.
Tailored guidelines

PIRC’s voting service is flexible to the needs and interests of our clients. This includes working with clients to tailor voting guidelines to meet their specific responsible investment policies.
Proxy reports and voting

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations.
Vote execution

PIRC provides a vote execution service for all proxies in our client portfolios. Our service includes a client review and vote-change mechanism through our online platform ensuring you have complete control of voting decisions.
Climate votes

Climate change has become a significant part of AGM agendas. Our services ensure that clients have the information and advice to exercise their shareholder rights on climate change. To do so, PIRC provides research on company climate performance, voting guidance and advice on filing climate resolutions.
Quarterly monitoring

PIRC not only supports clients to exercise their voting rights, we also provide analysis of voting outcomes. This quarterly analysis enables clients to understand market concerns and support their own stewardship disclosures to beneficiaries and stakeholders.
Asset manager analysis

Our voting analysis extends beyond aggregate market trends to examining the actions of specific managers. This analysis enables clients to understand how their managers and the main players in the market are voting, and how this might differ with client positions.

Local Authority Peer Group Performance

Founded on decades of experience and data, PIRC’s unique Local Authority Peer Group analysis supports LGPS funds wanting to improve investment scrutiny and outcomes.

PIRC’s LGPS investment peer group currently comprises 63 funds with an aggregate value of £266bn. This represents over two-thirds of local authority pension fund assets.

The Universe has 36 years of Fund and asset class level detailed historical data making it unique and increasingly essential to enable funds to view their investment performance within a long-term, peer group context that will enhance governance and improve decision making.

If you are interested in learning more, please contact, Karen Thrumble: karen.thrumble@pirc.co.uk
Governance data

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks.
Governance risk rating

Based on decades of knowledge, PIRC’s governance risk rating model enables clients to identify threats in their portfolio. These insights are used to inform engagement strategies and assist portfolio construction.
Climate data

Understanding investment risks requires a deep understanding of a company’s environmental performance. PIRC provides clients with environmental and climate change data on a company-by-company basis that is needed to inform their thinking and decision making.
Engagement

Effecting change can take time. PIRC’s engagement database enables clients to track activity by issue, company, and outcome and supports clients own reporting to stakeholders.

Data

PIRC has developed a unique dataset tracking company performance on workforce issues. This data helps clients identify risks and shape engagement activity.
Research reports

Employment issues are often the least considered part of responsible investment. Our research reports on the world of work provide clients with original and valued insights specifically tailored for the investor community.
Engagement

Using our expertise in labour issues, PIRC provides clients with a specialist engagement service to improve employment policies and practices.
Just transition

The race to net zero has the potential to create jobs and growth, but could also have very negative implications for some workers and communities which pose their own ESG threats. PIRC therefore provides research, engagement, and advice to responsible investors on ensuring a just transition.
Events

PIRC hosts events on employment issues which couple our in-house insights and with outside expertise to inform clients on employment risks.
Advice

PIRC provides advice on developing approaches on social issues. This advice includes the investor case for action, investor commitment on social and labour issues and understanding opportunities for influence.
Newsletter

In 2020, PIRC launched the first employment-focused ESG newsletter which provides clients with new perspectives into employment issues affecting investors.
Capital strategies

PIRC supports clients to foster collaboration between workers and investors, including forming and participating in coalitions to effect change on labour issues.

Go Back

Research

About

At PIRC we believe our clients are best served by us looking beyond corporate statements rather than just repeating them.

Our fearless approach to research produces insights not apparent from annual reports and sustainability disclosures. By doing so we equip our clients with a nuanced picture of risks that need to be managed.

Services

RI Policies

Responsible investment policies are the foundation on which ESG activities are built. We work with clients to produce policies and statements focused on their responsible investment priorities and designed to shape their ESG plans.
Learn More
Best practice code compliance

Industry codes help ensure clients are following responsible investment best practices. PIRC supports and advises clients on meeting standards such as the Stewardship Code and PRI reporting.
Learn More
Public policy

Regulation and government policy shape the environment in which responsible investors operate. To support the interests of long-term investors, PIRC advises clients on public policy matters, including, regulatory reforms, consultations, and engagement with the policymaking process.
Learn More
Training

PIRC provides training on the basics of responsible investment to the more technical aspects of the industry.
Learn More
Conference & seminars

To help inform clients and their stakeholders, PIRC organises conferences and seminars to provide insights from industry leaders and stakeholders on responsible investment issues.
Learn More
Presentations

As part of our approach to transparency, we provide face-to-face feedback to clients on work undertaken on their behalf, including at pension committees and annual meetings of scheme members. PIRC also provides presentations and in person advice on ESG risks.
Learn More
Climate change

Climate change is a top concern for us and our clients. We offer a range of advisory services, including on climate policies, code compliance, training and presentations and briefings on emerging issues.
Learn More
LGPS

PIRC was founded by eight UK local authority pension funds in the 1980s and continues to this day its close relationship with the LGPS. PIRC has extensive knowledge and experience providing advice and support to funds and pools on their specific regulatory requirements and ESG needs as public-facing administering authorities.
Learn More

Companies

We are committed to using data to understand your risks. PIRC’s global proxy research, covering every equity in our clients’ portfolios, alerts clients to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations and advise on engagement strategies.
Sectors

Not all sectors face the same risks or behave in the same way. To help inform clients about specific responsible investment risks, PIRC produces bespoke reports for clients on different industrial sectors.
Climate change

Climate change poses specific and significant risk to investors. Our research services offer client insights into company performance and emerging risks to help you assess and manage the responsible investment threats.
Themes

Some ESG issues can be overlooked or are just emerging. To support of our clients understand their risks, PIRC produces briefings and reports on specific environmental, social and governance issues.
Stakeholders

Relying solely on company disclosures risks investors overlooking ESG threats. To provide a more comprehensive appraisal of risks, PIRC engages affected stakeholders and uses this information to produce reports and briefings for clients.
Policy

PIRC not only highlights risks but advises on how they can be addressed. To do so, PIRC produces reports and briefings to help clients develop governance and public policy positions and investor expectations documents.
Bespoke research

PIRC works with clients to design research and reports tailored to meet the specific needs of clients. This can be a focus on specific sectors, themes, stakeholders and policies or a combination of them.
PIRC Alerts

Our weekly client newsletter PIRC Alerts is a must view source of market, investor and company developments for the responsible investment community. The newsletter provides company-specific commentary, and news of market and regulatory developments. It is widely read in the City, and frequently quoted in specialist and national media. Our clients are entitled to an Alerts subscription. However, it can be ordered separately for an annual subscription.
Watchlist

As part of our offer to keep our clients informed about company developments, we produce a weekly PIRC Watch List. This newsletter keeps our clients up to date about company controversies, prominent responsible investment issues reported over the week, and ongoing concerns at companies with an imminent annual general or special meeting.

Designing engagement strategies

Each investor has their own specific portfolio and responsible investment policies. As such, each investor has their own set of ESG risks. PIRC therefore works with clients to design engagement strategies and objectives based on their own unique set of risks.
Meeting companies

To change company behaviour and reduce investment risk, PIRC engages directly with company boards and representatives on ESG issues. PIRC sets meeting objectives and reports back to clients on the outcomes.
Attending AGMs

As part of our approach to effecting change through engagement, PIRC attends AGMs to meet and put questions direct to company boards.
Filing shareholder resolutions

Company policies and practices can at times be too slow to change. PIRC therefore supports clients escalate engagements by drafting and facilitating the filing shareholder resolutions.
Collaborative engagements

PIRC enables clients to work with other investors to amplify the voice of shareholders through collaborative engagements.
Our multi-stakeholder approach

PIRC’s unique approach to engagement includes engaging stakeholders on their concerns. This approach helps our clients more fully understand ESG risks facing investee companies and informs our company engagements.
Climate engagement

Like our clients we recognise the urgency of ensuring companies are aligning their business plans to a decarbonised future. Our engagement team has decades experience engaging on climate issues coupled with detailed knowledge of specific sectoral issues. This winning combination helps us secure changes that our clients want to see at companies.
Reporting

PIRC is committed to transparently reporting engagement activity. We provide clients with information, data and reports on engagement activity, including issues covered, type of activity, and outcomes.

Voting guidelines

Since the 1980s, PIRC has been at the forefront of developing best practice corporate governance guides. Based on this knowledge and experience, our Shareholder Voting Guidelines enables clients to exercise their ownership rights in a consistent and informed way.
Tailored guidelines

PIRC’s voting service is flexible to the needs and interests of our clients. This includes working with clients to tailor voting guidelines to meet their specific responsible investment policies.
Proxy reports and voting

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations.
Vote execution

PIRC provides a vote execution service for all proxies in our client portfolios. Our service includes a client review and vote-change mechanism through our online platform ensuring you have complete control of voting decisions.
Climate votes

Climate change has become a significant part of AGM agendas. Our services ensure that clients have the information and advice to exercise their shareholder rights on climate change. To do so, PIRC provides research on company climate performance, voting guidance and advice on filing climate resolutions.
Quarterly monitoring

PIRC not only supports clients to exercise their voting rights, we also provide analysis of voting outcomes. This quarterly analysis enables clients to understand market concerns and support their own stewardship disclosures to beneficiaries and stakeholders.
Asset manager analysis

Our voting analysis extends beyond aggregate market trends to examining the actions of specific managers. This analysis enables clients to understand how their managers and the main players in the market are voting, and how this might differ with client positions.

Local Authority Peer Group Performance

Founded on decades of experience and data, PIRC’s unique Local Authority Peer Group analysis supports LGPS funds wanting to improve investment scrutiny and outcomes.

PIRC’s LGPS investment peer group currently comprises 63 funds with an aggregate value of £266bn. This represents over two-thirds of local authority pension fund assets.

The Universe has 36 years of Fund and asset class level detailed historical data making it unique and increasingly essential to enable funds to view their investment performance within a long-term, peer group context that will enhance governance and improve decision making.

If you are interested in learning more, please contact, Karen Thrumble: karen.thrumble@pirc.co.uk
Governance data

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks.
Governance risk rating

Based on decades of knowledge, PIRC’s governance risk rating model enables clients to identify threats in their portfolio. These insights are used to inform engagement strategies and assist portfolio construction.
Climate data

Understanding investment risks requires a deep understanding of a company’s environmental performance. PIRC provides clients with environmental and climate change data on a company-by-company basis that is needed to inform their thinking and decision making.
Engagement

Effecting change can take time. PIRC’s engagement database enables clients to track activity by issue, company, and outcome and supports clients own reporting to stakeholders.

Data

PIRC has developed a unique dataset tracking company performance on workforce issues. This data helps clients identify risks and shape engagement activity.
Research reports

Employment issues are often the least considered part of responsible investment. Our research reports on the world of work provide clients with original and valued insights specifically tailored for the investor community.
Engagement

Using our expertise in labour issues, PIRC provides clients with a specialist engagement service to improve employment policies and practices.
Just transition

The race to net zero has the potential to create jobs and growth, but could also have very negative implications for some workers and communities which pose their own ESG threats. PIRC therefore provides research, engagement, and advice to responsible investors on ensuring a just transition.
Events

PIRC hosts events on employment issues which couple our in-house insights and with outside expertise to inform clients on employment risks.
Advice

PIRC provides advice on developing approaches on social issues. This advice includes the investor case for action, investor commitment on social and labour issues and understanding opportunities for influence.
Newsletter

In 2020, PIRC launched the first employment-focused ESG newsletter which provides clients with new perspectives into employment issues affecting investors.
Capital strategies

PIRC supports clients to foster collaboration between workers and investors, including forming and participating in coalitions to effect change on labour issues.

Go Back

Engagement

About

For PIRC engagement success is not about how many comfortable conversations we’ve had with a company.

It’s about reducing ESG risks and delivering the changes clients demand. That’s why our specialist stewardship team is focused on building relationships with companies and boards based on effective dialogue and where necessary robust challenge.

Services

RI Policies

Responsible investment policies are the foundation on which ESG activities are built. We work with clients to produce policies and statements focused on their responsible investment priorities and designed to shape their ESG plans.
Learn More
Best practice code compliance

Industry codes help ensure clients are following responsible investment best practices. PIRC supports and advises clients on meeting standards such as the Stewardship Code and PRI reporting.
Learn More
Public policy

Regulation and government policy shape the environment in which responsible investors operate. To support the interests of long-term investors, PIRC advises clients on public policy matters, including, regulatory reforms, consultations, and engagement with the policymaking process.
Learn More
Training

PIRC provides training on the basics of responsible investment to the more technical aspects of the industry.
Learn More
Conference & seminars

To help inform clients and their stakeholders, PIRC organises conferences and seminars to provide insights from industry leaders and stakeholders on responsible investment issues.
Learn More
Presentations

As part of our approach to transparency, we provide face-to-face feedback to clients on work undertaken on their behalf, including at pension committees and annual meetings of scheme members. PIRC also provides presentations and in person advice on ESG risks.
Learn More
Climate change

Climate change is a top concern for us and our clients. We offer a range of advisory services, including on climate policies, code compliance, training and presentations and briefings on emerging issues.
Learn More
LGPS

PIRC was founded by eight UK local authority pension funds in the 1980s and continues to this day its close relationship with the LGPS. PIRC has extensive knowledge and experience providing advice and support to funds and pools on their specific regulatory requirements and ESG needs as public-facing administering authorities.
Learn More

Companies

We are committed to using data to understand your risks. PIRC’s global proxy research, covering every equity in our clients’ portfolios, alerts clients to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations and advise on engagement strategies.
Sectors

Not all sectors face the same risks or behave in the same way. To help inform clients about specific responsible investment risks, PIRC produces bespoke reports for clients on different industrial sectors.
Climate change

Climate change poses specific and significant risk to investors. Our research services offer client insights into company performance and emerging risks to help you assess and manage the responsible investment threats.
Themes

Some ESG issues can be overlooked or are just emerging. To support of our clients understand their risks, PIRC produces briefings and reports on specific environmental, social and governance issues.
Stakeholders

Relying solely on company disclosures risks investors overlooking ESG threats. To provide a more comprehensive appraisal of risks, PIRC engages affected stakeholders and uses this information to produce reports and briefings for clients.
Policy

PIRC not only highlights risks but advises on how they can be addressed. To do so, PIRC produces reports and briefings to help clients develop governance and public policy positions and investor expectations documents.
Bespoke research

PIRC works with clients to design research and reports tailored to meet the specific needs of clients. This can be a focus on specific sectors, themes, stakeholders and policies or a combination of them.
PIRC Alerts

Our weekly client newsletter PIRC Alerts is a must view source of market, investor and company developments for the responsible investment community. The newsletter provides company-specific commentary, and news of market and regulatory developments. It is widely read in the City, and frequently quoted in specialist and national media. Our clients are entitled to an Alerts subscription. However, it can be ordered separately for an annual subscription.
Watchlist

As part of our offer to keep our clients informed about company developments, we produce a weekly PIRC Watch List. This newsletter keeps our clients up to date about company controversies, prominent responsible investment issues reported over the week, and ongoing concerns at companies with an imminent annual general or special meeting.

Designing engagement strategies

Each investor has their own specific portfolio and responsible investment policies. As such, each investor has their own set of ESG risks. PIRC therefore works with clients to design engagement strategies and objectives based on their own unique set of risks.
Meeting companies

To change company behaviour and reduce investment risk, PIRC engages directly with company boards and representatives on ESG issues. PIRC sets meeting objectives and reports back to clients on the outcomes.
Attending AGMs

As part of our approach to effecting change through engagement, PIRC attends AGMs to meet and put questions direct to company boards.
Filing shareholder resolutions

Company policies and practices can at times be too slow to change. PIRC therefore supports clients escalate engagements by drafting and facilitating the filing shareholder resolutions.
Collaborative engagements

PIRC enables clients to work with other investors to amplify the voice of shareholders through collaborative engagements.
Our multi-stakeholder approach

PIRC’s unique approach to engagement includes engaging stakeholders on their concerns. This approach helps our clients more fully understand ESG risks facing investee companies and informs our company engagements.
Climate engagement

Like our clients we recognise the urgency of ensuring companies are aligning their business plans to a decarbonised future. Our engagement team has decades experience engaging on climate issues coupled with detailed knowledge of specific sectoral issues. This winning combination helps us secure changes that our clients want to see at companies.
Reporting

PIRC is committed to transparently reporting engagement activity. We provide clients with information, data and reports on engagement activity, including issues covered, type of activity, and outcomes.

Voting guidelines

Since the 1980s, PIRC has been at the forefront of developing best practice corporate governance guides. Based on this knowledge and experience, our Shareholder Voting Guidelines enables clients to exercise their ownership rights in a consistent and informed way.
Tailored guidelines

PIRC’s voting service is flexible to the needs and interests of our clients. This includes working with clients to tailor voting guidelines to meet their specific responsible investment policies.
Proxy reports and voting

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations.
Vote execution

PIRC provides a vote execution service for all proxies in our client portfolios. Our service includes a client review and vote-change mechanism through our online platform ensuring you have complete control of voting decisions.
Climate votes

Climate change has become a significant part of AGM agendas. Our services ensure that clients have the information and advice to exercise their shareholder rights on climate change. To do so, PIRC provides research on company climate performance, voting guidance and advice on filing climate resolutions.
Quarterly monitoring

PIRC not only supports clients to exercise their voting rights, we also provide analysis of voting outcomes. This quarterly analysis enables clients to understand market concerns and support their own stewardship disclosures to beneficiaries and stakeholders.
Asset manager analysis

Our voting analysis extends beyond aggregate market trends to examining the actions of specific managers. This analysis enables clients to understand how their managers and the main players in the market are voting, and how this might differ with client positions.

Local Authority Peer Group Performance

Founded on decades of experience and data, PIRC’s unique Local Authority Peer Group analysis supports LGPS funds wanting to improve investment scrutiny and outcomes.

PIRC’s LGPS investment peer group currently comprises 63 funds with an aggregate value of £266bn. This represents over two-thirds of local authority pension fund assets.

The Universe has 36 years of Fund and asset class level detailed historical data making it unique and increasingly essential to enable funds to view their investment performance within a long-term, peer group context that will enhance governance and improve decision making.

If you are interested in learning more, please contact, Karen Thrumble: karen.thrumble@pirc.co.uk
Governance data

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks.
Governance risk rating

Based on decades of knowledge, PIRC’s governance risk rating model enables clients to identify threats in their portfolio. These insights are used to inform engagement strategies and assist portfolio construction.
Climate data

Understanding investment risks requires a deep understanding of a company’s environmental performance. PIRC provides clients with environmental and climate change data on a company-by-company basis that is needed to inform their thinking and decision making.
Engagement

Effecting change can take time. PIRC’s engagement database enables clients to track activity by issue, company, and outcome and supports clients own reporting to stakeholders.

Data

PIRC has developed a unique dataset tracking company performance on workforce issues. This data helps clients identify risks and shape engagement activity.
Research reports

Employment issues are often the least considered part of responsible investment. Our research reports on the world of work provide clients with original and valued insights specifically tailored for the investor community.
Engagement

Using our expertise in labour issues, PIRC provides clients with a specialist engagement service to improve employment policies and practices.
Just transition

The race to net zero has the potential to create jobs and growth, but could also have very negative implications for some workers and communities which pose their own ESG threats. PIRC therefore provides research, engagement, and advice to responsible investors on ensuring a just transition.
Events

PIRC hosts events on employment issues which couple our in-house insights and with outside expertise to inform clients on employment risks.
Advice

PIRC provides advice on developing approaches on social issues. This advice includes the investor case for action, investor commitment on social and labour issues and understanding opportunities for influence.
Newsletter

In 2020, PIRC launched the first employment-focused ESG newsletter which provides clients with new perspectives into employment issues affecting investors.
Capital strategies

PIRC supports clients to foster collaboration between workers and investors, including forming and participating in coalitions to effect change on labour issues.

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Voting

About

Never afraid to take robust voting positions

PIRC advises and supports its clients to vote for changes needed to support the highest standards of corporate governance to protect shareholder value.

Services

RI Policies

Responsible investment policies are the foundation on which ESG activities are built. We work with clients to produce policies and statements focused on their responsible investment priorities and designed to shape their ESG plans.
Learn More
Best practice code compliance

Industry codes help ensure clients are following responsible investment best practices. PIRC supports and advises clients on meeting standards such as the Stewardship Code and PRI reporting.
Learn More
Public policy

Regulation and government policy shape the environment in which responsible investors operate. To support the interests of long-term investors, PIRC advises clients on public policy matters, including, regulatory reforms, consultations, and engagement with the policymaking process.
Learn More
Training

PIRC provides training on the basics of responsible investment to the more technical aspects of the industry.
Learn More
Conference & seminars

To help inform clients and their stakeholders, PIRC organises conferences and seminars to provide insights from industry leaders and stakeholders on responsible investment issues.
Learn More
Presentations

As part of our approach to transparency, we provide face-to-face feedback to clients on work undertaken on their behalf, including at pension committees and annual meetings of scheme members. PIRC also provides presentations and in person advice on ESG risks.
Learn More
Climate change

Climate change is a top concern for us and our clients. We offer a range of advisory services, including on climate policies, code compliance, training and presentations and briefings on emerging issues.
Learn More
LGPS

PIRC was founded by eight UK local authority pension funds in the 1980s and continues to this day its close relationship with the LGPS. PIRC has extensive knowledge and experience providing advice and support to funds and pools on their specific regulatory requirements and ESG needs as public-facing administering authorities.
Learn More

Companies

We are committed to using data to understand your risks. PIRC’s global proxy research, covering every equity in our clients’ portfolios, alerts clients to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations and advise on engagement strategies.
Sectors

Not all sectors face the same risks or behave in the same way. To help inform clients about specific responsible investment risks, PIRC produces bespoke reports for clients on different industrial sectors.
Climate change

Climate change poses specific and significant risk to investors. Our research services offer client insights into company performance and emerging risks to help you assess and manage the responsible investment threats.
Themes

Some ESG issues can be overlooked or are just emerging. To support of our clients understand their risks, PIRC produces briefings and reports on specific environmental, social and governance issues.
Stakeholders

Relying solely on company disclosures risks investors overlooking ESG threats. To provide a more comprehensive appraisal of risks, PIRC engages affected stakeholders and uses this information to produce reports and briefings for clients.
Policy

PIRC not only highlights risks but advises on how they can be addressed. To do so, PIRC produces reports and briefings to help clients develop governance and public policy positions and investor expectations documents.
Bespoke research

PIRC works with clients to design research and reports tailored to meet the specific needs of clients. This can be a focus on specific sectors, themes, stakeholders and policies or a combination of them.
PIRC Alerts

Our weekly client newsletter PIRC Alerts is a must view source of market, investor and company developments for the responsible investment community. The newsletter provides company-specific commentary, and news of market and regulatory developments. It is widely read in the City, and frequently quoted in specialist and national media. Our clients are entitled to an Alerts subscription. However, it can be ordered separately for an annual subscription.
Watchlist

As part of our offer to keep our clients informed about company developments, we produce a weekly PIRC Watch List. This newsletter keeps our clients up to date about company controversies, prominent responsible investment issues reported over the week, and ongoing concerns at companies with an imminent annual general or special meeting.

Designing engagement strategies

Each investor has their own specific portfolio and responsible investment policies. As such, each investor has their own set of ESG risks. PIRC therefore works with clients to design engagement strategies and objectives based on their own unique set of risks.
Meeting companies

To change company behaviour and reduce investment risk, PIRC engages directly with company boards and representatives on ESG issues. PIRC sets meeting objectives and reports back to clients on the outcomes.
Attending AGMs

As part of our approach to effecting change through engagement, PIRC attends AGMs to meet and put questions direct to company boards.
Filing shareholder resolutions

Company policies and practices can at times be too slow to change. PIRC therefore supports clients escalate engagements by drafting and facilitating the filing shareholder resolutions.
Collaborative engagements

PIRC enables clients to work with other investors to amplify the voice of shareholders through collaborative engagements.
Our multi-stakeholder approach

PIRC’s unique approach to engagement includes engaging stakeholders on their concerns. This approach helps our clients more fully understand ESG risks facing investee companies and informs our company engagements.
Climate engagement

Like our clients we recognise the urgency of ensuring companies are aligning their business plans to a decarbonised future. Our engagement team has decades experience engaging on climate issues coupled with detailed knowledge of specific sectoral issues. This winning combination helps us secure changes that our clients want to see at companies.
Reporting

PIRC is committed to transparently reporting engagement activity. We provide clients with information, data and reports on engagement activity, including issues covered, type of activity, and outcomes.

Voting guidelines

Since the 1980s, PIRC has been at the forefront of developing best practice corporate governance guides. Based on this knowledge and experience, our Shareholder Voting Guidelines enables clients to exercise their ownership rights in a consistent and informed way.
Tailored guidelines

PIRC’s voting service is flexible to the needs and interests of our clients. This includes working with clients to tailor voting guidelines to meet their specific responsible investment policies.
Proxy reports and voting

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations.
Vote execution

PIRC provides a vote execution service for all proxies in our client portfolios. Our service includes a client review and vote-change mechanism through our online platform ensuring you have complete control of voting decisions.
Climate votes

Climate change has become a significant part of AGM agendas. Our services ensure that clients have the information and advice to exercise their shareholder rights on climate change. To do so, PIRC provides research on company climate performance, voting guidance and advice on filing climate resolutions.
Quarterly monitoring

PIRC not only supports clients to exercise their voting rights, we also provide analysis of voting outcomes. This quarterly analysis enables clients to understand market concerns and support their own stewardship disclosures to beneficiaries and stakeholders.
Asset manager analysis

Our voting analysis extends beyond aggregate market trends to examining the actions of specific managers. This analysis enables clients to understand how their managers and the main players in the market are voting, and how this might differ with client positions.

Local Authority Peer Group Performance

Founded on decades of experience and data, PIRC’s unique Local Authority Peer Group analysis supports LGPS funds wanting to improve investment scrutiny and outcomes.

PIRC’s LGPS investment peer group currently comprises 63 funds with an aggregate value of £266bn. This represents over two-thirds of local authority pension fund assets.

The Universe has 36 years of Fund and asset class level detailed historical data making it unique and increasingly essential to enable funds to view their investment performance within a long-term, peer group context that will enhance governance and improve decision making.

If you are interested in learning more, please contact, Karen Thrumble: karen.thrumble@pirc.co.uk
Governance data

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks.
Governance risk rating

Based on decades of knowledge, PIRC’s governance risk rating model enables clients to identify threats in their portfolio. These insights are used to inform engagement strategies and assist portfolio construction.
Climate data

Understanding investment risks requires a deep understanding of a company’s environmental performance. PIRC provides clients with environmental and climate change data on a company-by-company basis that is needed to inform their thinking and decision making.
Engagement

Effecting change can take time. PIRC’s engagement database enables clients to track activity by issue, company, and outcome and supports clients own reporting to stakeholders.

Data

PIRC has developed a unique dataset tracking company performance on workforce issues. This data helps clients identify risks and shape engagement activity.
Research reports

Employment issues are often the least considered part of responsible investment. Our research reports on the world of work provide clients with original and valued insights specifically tailored for the investor community.
Engagement

Using our expertise in labour issues, PIRC provides clients with a specialist engagement service to improve employment policies and practices.
Just transition

The race to net zero has the potential to create jobs and growth, but could also have very negative implications for some workers and communities which pose their own ESG threats. PIRC therefore provides research, engagement, and advice to responsible investors on ensuring a just transition.
Events

PIRC hosts events on employment issues which couple our in-house insights and with outside expertise to inform clients on employment risks.
Advice

PIRC provides advice on developing approaches on social issues. This advice includes the investor case for action, investor commitment on social and labour issues and understanding opportunities for influence.
Newsletter

In 2020, PIRC launched the first employment-focused ESG newsletter which provides clients with new perspectives into employment issues affecting investors.
Capital strategies

PIRC supports clients to foster collaboration between workers and investors, including forming and participating in coalitions to effect change on labour issues.

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Peer Group Benchmarking

About

PIRC’s Local Authority Pension Performance Peer Group provides LGPS funds with a unique benchmark and essential insights into their investment performance.

Alongside our investment performance benchmark, PIRC provides a range of governance and engagement data focused squarely on supporting clients to make decisions with confidence.

Services

RI Policies

Responsible investment policies are the foundation on which ESG activities are built. We work with clients to produce policies and statements focused on their responsible investment priorities and designed to shape their ESG plans.
Learn More
Best practice code compliance

Industry codes help ensure clients are following responsible investment best practices. PIRC supports and advises clients on meeting standards such as the Stewardship Code and PRI reporting.
Learn More
Public policy

Regulation and government policy shape the environment in which responsible investors operate. To support the interests of long-term investors, PIRC advises clients on public policy matters, including, regulatory reforms, consultations, and engagement with the policymaking process.
Learn More
Training

PIRC provides training on the basics of responsible investment to the more technical aspects of the industry.
Learn More
Conference & seminars

To help inform clients and their stakeholders, PIRC organises conferences and seminars to provide insights from industry leaders and stakeholders on responsible investment issues.
Learn More
Presentations

As part of our approach to transparency, we provide face-to-face feedback to clients on work undertaken on their behalf, including at pension committees and annual meetings of scheme members. PIRC also provides presentations and in person advice on ESG risks.
Learn More
Climate change

Climate change is a top concern for us and our clients. We offer a range of advisory services, including on climate policies, code compliance, training and presentations and briefings on emerging issues.
Learn More
LGPS

PIRC was founded by eight UK local authority pension funds in the 1980s and continues to this day its close relationship with the LGPS. PIRC has extensive knowledge and experience providing advice and support to funds and pools on their specific regulatory requirements and ESG needs as public-facing administering authorities.
Learn More

Companies

We are committed to using data to understand your risks. PIRC’s global proxy research, covering every equity in our clients’ portfolios, alerts clients to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations and advise on engagement strategies.
Sectors

Not all sectors face the same risks or behave in the same way. To help inform clients about specific responsible investment risks, PIRC produces bespoke reports for clients on different industrial sectors.
Climate change

Climate change poses specific and significant risk to investors. Our research services offer client insights into company performance and emerging risks to help you assess and manage the responsible investment threats.
Themes

Some ESG issues can be overlooked or are just emerging. To support of our clients understand their risks, PIRC produces briefings and reports on specific environmental, social and governance issues.
Stakeholders

Relying solely on company disclosures risks investors overlooking ESG threats. To provide a more comprehensive appraisal of risks, PIRC engages affected stakeholders and uses this information to produce reports and briefings for clients.
Policy

PIRC not only highlights risks but advises on how they can be addressed. To do so, PIRC produces reports and briefings to help clients develop governance and public policy positions and investor expectations documents.
Bespoke research

PIRC works with clients to design research and reports tailored to meet the specific needs of clients. This can be a focus on specific sectors, themes, stakeholders and policies or a combination of them.
PIRC Alerts

Our weekly client newsletter PIRC Alerts is a must view source of market, investor and company developments for the responsible investment community. The newsletter provides company-specific commentary, and news of market and regulatory developments. It is widely read in the City, and frequently quoted in specialist and national media. Our clients are entitled to an Alerts subscription. However, it can be ordered separately for an annual subscription.
Watchlist

As part of our offer to keep our clients informed about company developments, we produce a weekly PIRC Watch List. This newsletter keeps our clients up to date about company controversies, prominent responsible investment issues reported over the week, and ongoing concerns at companies with an imminent annual general or special meeting.

Designing engagement strategies

Each investor has their own specific portfolio and responsible investment policies. As such, each investor has their own set of ESG risks. PIRC therefore works with clients to design engagement strategies and objectives based on their own unique set of risks.
Meeting companies

To change company behaviour and reduce investment risk, PIRC engages directly with company boards and representatives on ESG issues. PIRC sets meeting objectives and reports back to clients on the outcomes.
Attending AGMs

As part of our approach to effecting change through engagement, PIRC attends AGMs to meet and put questions direct to company boards.
Filing shareholder resolutions

Company policies and practices can at times be too slow to change. PIRC therefore supports clients escalate engagements by drafting and facilitating the filing shareholder resolutions.
Collaborative engagements

PIRC enables clients to work with other investors to amplify the voice of shareholders through collaborative engagements.
Our multi-stakeholder approach

PIRC’s unique approach to engagement includes engaging stakeholders on their concerns. This approach helps our clients more fully understand ESG risks facing investee companies and informs our company engagements.
Climate engagement

Like our clients we recognise the urgency of ensuring companies are aligning their business plans to a decarbonised future. Our engagement team has decades experience engaging on climate issues coupled with detailed knowledge of specific sectoral issues. This winning combination helps us secure changes that our clients want to see at companies.
Reporting

PIRC is committed to transparently reporting engagement activity. We provide clients with information, data and reports on engagement activity, including issues covered, type of activity, and outcomes.

Voting guidelines

Since the 1980s, PIRC has been at the forefront of developing best practice corporate governance guides. Based on this knowledge and experience, our Shareholder Voting Guidelines enables clients to exercise their ownership rights in a consistent and informed way.
Tailored guidelines

PIRC’s voting service is flexible to the needs and interests of our clients. This includes working with clients to tailor voting guidelines to meet their specific responsible investment policies.
Proxy reports and voting

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations.
Vote execution

PIRC provides a vote execution service for all proxies in our client portfolios. Our service includes a client review and vote-change mechanism through our online platform ensuring you have complete control of voting decisions.
Climate votes

Climate change has become a significant part of AGM agendas. Our services ensure that clients have the information and advice to exercise their shareholder rights on climate change. To do so, PIRC provides research on company climate performance, voting guidance and advice on filing climate resolutions.
Quarterly monitoring

PIRC not only supports clients to exercise their voting rights, we also provide analysis of voting outcomes. This quarterly analysis enables clients to understand market concerns and support their own stewardship disclosures to beneficiaries and stakeholders.
Asset manager analysis

Our voting analysis extends beyond aggregate market trends to examining the actions of specific managers. This analysis enables clients to understand how their managers and the main players in the market are voting, and how this might differ with client positions.

Local Authority Peer Group Performance

Founded on decades of experience and data, PIRC’s unique Local Authority Peer Group analysis supports LGPS funds wanting to improve investment scrutiny and outcomes.

PIRC’s LGPS investment peer group currently comprises 63 funds with an aggregate value of £266bn. This represents over two-thirds of local authority pension fund assets.

The Universe has 36 years of Fund and asset class level detailed historical data making it unique and increasingly essential to enable funds to view their investment performance within a long-term, peer group context that will enhance governance and improve decision making.

If you are interested in learning more, please contact, Karen Thrumble: karen.thrumble@pirc.co.uk
Governance data

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks.
Governance risk rating

Based on decades of knowledge, PIRC’s governance risk rating model enables clients to identify threats in their portfolio. These insights are used to inform engagement strategies and assist portfolio construction.
Climate data

Understanding investment risks requires a deep understanding of a company’s environmental performance. PIRC provides clients with environmental and climate change data on a company-by-company basis that is needed to inform their thinking and decision making.
Engagement

Effecting change can take time. PIRC’s engagement database enables clients to track activity by issue, company, and outcome and supports clients own reporting to stakeholders.

Data

PIRC has developed a unique dataset tracking company performance on workforce issues. This data helps clients identify risks and shape engagement activity.
Research reports

Employment issues are often the least considered part of responsible investment. Our research reports on the world of work provide clients with original and valued insights specifically tailored for the investor community.
Engagement

Using our expertise in labour issues, PIRC provides clients with a specialist engagement service to improve employment policies and practices.
Just transition

The race to net zero has the potential to create jobs and growth, but could also have very negative implications for some workers and communities which pose their own ESG threats. PIRC therefore provides research, engagement, and advice to responsible investors on ensuring a just transition.
Events

PIRC hosts events on employment issues which couple our in-house insights and with outside expertise to inform clients on employment risks.
Advice

PIRC provides advice on developing approaches on social issues. This advice includes the investor case for action, investor commitment on social and labour issues and understanding opportunities for influence.
Newsletter

In 2020, PIRC launched the first employment-focused ESG newsletter which provides clients with new perspectives into employment issues affecting investors.
Capital strategies

PIRC supports clients to foster collaboration between workers and investors, including forming and participating in coalitions to effect change on labour issues.

Go Back

Work

About

For too long work has taken a backseat in responsible investment activity.

Despite its importance to value creation too many stewardship providers and investors have only ever paid lip service to decent work and good employment standards. PIRC’s specialist stewardship services are changing this.

Services

RI Policies

Responsible investment policies are the foundation on which ESG activities are built. We work with clients to produce policies and statements focused on their responsible investment priorities and designed to shape their ESG plans.
Learn More
Best practice code compliance

Industry codes help ensure clients are following responsible investment best practices. PIRC supports and advises clients on meeting standards such as the Stewardship Code and PRI reporting.
Learn More
Public policy

Regulation and government policy shape the environment in which responsible investors operate. To support the interests of long-term investors, PIRC advises clients on public policy matters, including, regulatory reforms, consultations, and engagement with the policymaking process.
Learn More
Training

PIRC provides training on the basics of responsible investment to the more technical aspects of the industry.
Learn More
Conference & seminars

To help inform clients and their stakeholders, PIRC organises conferences and seminars to provide insights from industry leaders and stakeholders on responsible investment issues.
Learn More
Presentations

As part of our approach to transparency, we provide face-to-face feedback to clients on work undertaken on their behalf, including at pension committees and annual meetings of scheme members. PIRC also provides presentations and in person advice on ESG risks.
Learn More
Climate change

Climate change is a top concern for us and our clients. We offer a range of advisory services, including on climate policies, code compliance, training and presentations and briefings on emerging issues.
Learn More
LGPS

PIRC was founded by eight UK local authority pension funds in the 1980s and continues to this day its close relationship with the LGPS. PIRC has extensive knowledge and experience providing advice and support to funds and pools on their specific regulatory requirements and ESG needs as public-facing administering authorities.
Learn More

Companies

We are committed to using data to understand your risks. PIRC’s global proxy research, covering every equity in our clients’ portfolios, alerts clients to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations and advise on engagement strategies.
Sectors

Not all sectors face the same risks or behave in the same way. To help inform clients about specific responsible investment risks, PIRC produces bespoke reports for clients on different industrial sectors.
Climate change

Climate change poses specific and significant risk to investors. Our research services offer client insights into company performance and emerging risks to help you assess and manage the responsible investment threats.
Themes

Some ESG issues can be overlooked or are just emerging. To support of our clients understand their risks, PIRC produces briefings and reports on specific environmental, social and governance issues.
Stakeholders

Relying solely on company disclosures risks investors overlooking ESG threats. To provide a more comprehensive appraisal of risks, PIRC engages affected stakeholders and uses this information to produce reports and briefings for clients.
Policy

PIRC not only highlights risks but advises on how they can be addressed. To do so, PIRC produces reports and briefings to help clients develop governance and public policy positions and investor expectations documents.
Bespoke research

PIRC works with clients to design research and reports tailored to meet the specific needs of clients. This can be a focus on specific sectors, themes, stakeholders and policies or a combination of them.
PIRC Alerts

Our weekly client newsletter PIRC Alerts is a must view source of market, investor and company developments for the responsible investment community. The newsletter provides company-specific commentary, and news of market and regulatory developments. It is widely read in the City, and frequently quoted in specialist and national media. Our clients are entitled to an Alerts subscription. However, it can be ordered separately for an annual subscription.
Watchlist

As part of our offer to keep our clients informed about company developments, we produce a weekly PIRC Watch List. This newsletter keeps our clients up to date about company controversies, prominent responsible investment issues reported over the week, and ongoing concerns at companies with an imminent annual general or special meeting.

Designing engagement strategies

Each investor has their own specific portfolio and responsible investment policies. As such, each investor has their own set of ESG risks. PIRC therefore works with clients to design engagement strategies and objectives based on their own unique set of risks.
Meeting companies

To change company behaviour and reduce investment risk, PIRC engages directly with company boards and representatives on ESG issues. PIRC sets meeting objectives and reports back to clients on the outcomes.
Attending AGMs

As part of our approach to effecting change through engagement, PIRC attends AGMs to meet and put questions direct to company boards.
Filing shareholder resolutions

Company policies and practices can at times be too slow to change. PIRC therefore supports clients escalate engagements by drafting and facilitating the filing shareholder resolutions.
Collaborative engagements

PIRC enables clients to work with other investors to amplify the voice of shareholders through collaborative engagements.
Our multi-stakeholder approach

PIRC’s unique approach to engagement includes engaging stakeholders on their concerns. This approach helps our clients more fully understand ESG risks facing investee companies and informs our company engagements.
Climate engagement

Like our clients we recognise the urgency of ensuring companies are aligning their business plans to a decarbonised future. Our engagement team has decades experience engaging on climate issues coupled with detailed knowledge of specific sectoral issues. This winning combination helps us secure changes that our clients want to see at companies.
Reporting

PIRC is committed to transparently reporting engagement activity. We provide clients with information, data and reports on engagement activity, including issues covered, type of activity, and outcomes.

Voting guidelines

Since the 1980s, PIRC has been at the forefront of developing best practice corporate governance guides. Based on this knowledge and experience, our Shareholder Voting Guidelines enables clients to exercise their ownership rights in a consistent and informed way.
Tailored guidelines

PIRC’s voting service is flexible to the needs and interests of our clients. This includes working with clients to tailor voting guidelines to meet their specific responsible investment policies.
Proxy reports and voting

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations.
Vote execution

PIRC provides a vote execution service for all proxies in our client portfolios. Our service includes a client review and vote-change mechanism through our online platform ensuring you have complete control of voting decisions.
Climate votes

Climate change has become a significant part of AGM agendas. Our services ensure that clients have the information and advice to exercise their shareholder rights on climate change. To do so, PIRC provides research on company climate performance, voting guidance and advice on filing climate resolutions.
Quarterly monitoring

PIRC not only supports clients to exercise their voting rights, we also provide analysis of voting outcomes. This quarterly analysis enables clients to understand market concerns and support their own stewardship disclosures to beneficiaries and stakeholders.
Asset manager analysis

Our voting analysis extends beyond aggregate market trends to examining the actions of specific managers. This analysis enables clients to understand how their managers and the main players in the market are voting, and how this might differ with client positions.

Local Authority Peer Group Performance

Founded on decades of experience and data, PIRC’s unique Local Authority Peer Group analysis supports LGPS funds wanting to improve investment scrutiny and outcomes.

PIRC’s LGPS investment peer group currently comprises 63 funds with an aggregate value of £266bn. This represents over two-thirds of local authority pension fund assets.

The Universe has 36 years of Fund and asset class level detailed historical data making it unique and increasingly essential to enable funds to view their investment performance within a long-term, peer group context that will enhance governance and improve decision making.

If you are interested in learning more, please contact, Karen Thrumble: karen.thrumble@pirc.co.uk
Governance data

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks.
Governance risk rating

Based on decades of knowledge, PIRC’s governance risk rating model enables clients to identify threats in their portfolio. These insights are used to inform engagement strategies and assist portfolio construction.
Climate data

Understanding investment risks requires a deep understanding of a company’s environmental performance. PIRC provides clients with environmental and climate change data on a company-by-company basis that is needed to inform their thinking and decision making.
Engagement

Effecting change can take time. PIRC’s engagement database enables clients to track activity by issue, company, and outcome and supports clients own reporting to stakeholders.

Data

PIRC has developed a unique dataset tracking company performance on workforce issues. This data helps clients identify risks and shape engagement activity.
Research reports

Employment issues are often the least considered part of responsible investment. Our research reports on the world of work provide clients with original and valued insights specifically tailored for the investor community.
Engagement

Using our expertise in labour issues, PIRC provides clients with a specialist engagement service to improve employment policies and practices.
Just transition

The race to net zero has the potential to create jobs and growth, but could also have very negative implications for some workers and communities which pose their own ESG threats. PIRC therefore provides research, engagement, and advice to responsible investors on ensuring a just transition.
Events

PIRC hosts events on employment issues which couple our in-house insights and with outside expertise to inform clients on employment risks.
Advice

PIRC provides advice on developing approaches on social issues. This advice includes the investor case for action, investor commitment on social and labour issues and understanding opportunities for influence.
Newsletter

In 2020, PIRC launched the first employment-focused ESG newsletter which provides clients with new perspectives into employment issues affecting investors.
Capital strategies

PIRC supports clients to foster collaboration between workers and investors, including forming and participating in coalitions to effect change on labour issues.

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SPOTTING RISKS, ASSESSING PERFORMANCE

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Government’s corporate reporting reforms risk weakening the foundations of good governance and economic growth

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Government’s corporate reporting reforms risk weakening the foundations of good governance and economic growth

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PIRC response to European Commission – Shareholder Rights Directive – Call for Evidence

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PIRC response to European Commission – Shareholder Rights Directive – Call for Evidence

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Governance Insights: The decline of US Shareholder Proposals

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Leadership transition: A note of thanks to Alan MacDougall and Janice Hayward

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Leadership transition: A note of thanks to Alan MacDougall and Janice Hayward

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Best Practice Principles for Shareholder Voting Research: Compliance Statement

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Local Authority Pension Performance Initial Indicators - Q1 2025

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Statement on the revised UK Stewardship Code – A step in the wrong direction

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Statement on the revised UK Stewardship Code – A step in the wrong direction

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Flash analysis: Pro-climate shareholder proposals decline for second year in a row

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Statement from PIRC on the passing of Robert Monks

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Statement from PIRC on the passing of Robert Monks

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REAL ESTATE SECTOR FRAMEWORK & PROXY VOTING GUIDELINES

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FOOD & AGRICULTURE SECTOR FRAMEWORK & PROXY VOTING GUIDELINES

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Material Climate Disclosures: Diversified Mining Sector Framework and Proxy Voting Guidelines

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Local Authority Pension Performance Initial Indicators - Q3 2024

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Press release: PIRC announces appointment of CEO and new chair

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Press release: PIRC announces appointment of CEO and new chair

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Material Climate Disclosures: BHP Group Proxy Report

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Local Authority Pension Performance Initial Indicators - Q2 2024

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Material Climate Disclosures: SSE Proxy Report

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Material Climate Disclosures: National Grid Proxy Report

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Material Climate Disclosures: Utilities Sector Framework & Proxy Voting Guidelines

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Material Climate Disclosures: CEZ Proxy Report

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Material Climate Disclosures: Centrica Proxy Report

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Still Going Strong: The 2023/24 PIRC Local Authority Analytics Service Annual Review

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Material Climate Disclosures: Volkswagen Proxy Report

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Material Climate Disclosures: Automotive sector framework and proxy voting guidelines

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Local Authority Pension Performance Initial Indicators - Q1 2024

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Local Authority Pension Performance Initial Indicators - Q1 2024

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Local Authority Pension Performance Initial Indicators - Q4 2023

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Your Voice In the Market: Pass Through Voting Solutions

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Local Authority Pension Performance Initial Indicators - Q3 2023

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Local Authority Pension Performance Initial Indicators - Q2 2023

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It’s Complicated… The 2022/23 PIRC Local Authority Analytics Service Annual Review

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PIRC opposes Glencore’s climate report and backs shareholder resolution

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PIRC opposes Glencore’s climate report and backs shareholder resolution

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PIRC opposes Shell chair and annual report over climate risk

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PIRC opposes Shell chair and annual report over climate risk

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Local Authority Pension Performance Initial Indicators - Q1 2023

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Carbon 1.5 - Climate Voting for Responsible Investors

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Carbon 1.5 - Climate Voting for Responsible Investors

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Hounslow adopts split voting with BlackRock

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Hounslow adopts split voting with BlackRock

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Cisco and Microsoft AGM Tax Transparency vote outcomes

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Cisco and Microsoft AGM Tax Transparency vote outcomes

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CICTAR report raises concerns over Microsoft tax

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CICTAR report raises concerns over Microsoft tax

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PIRC analysis of takeovers, turnout and use of derivatives

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PIRC analysis of takeovers, turnout and use of derivatives

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Cisco to put tax transparency resolution to a vote

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Cisco to put tax transparency resolution to a vote

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PIRC analysis of due diligence supply chains

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PIRC analysis of due diligence supply chains

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PIRC supports mandatory tax CbCR in Australia

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PIRC supports mandatory tax CbCR in Australia

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Cisco tax transparency resolution filed

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Cisco tax transparency resolution filed

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Microsoft tax transparency resolution filed

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Microsoft tax transparency resolution filed

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PIRC statement on ILO adopting safety as a fundamental right at work

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PIRC statement on ILO adopting safety as a fundamental right at work

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Amazon AGM Tax Transparency vote outcome

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Amazon AGM Tax Transparency vote outcome

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PIRC Tax Brief

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PIRC Tax Brief

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PIRC occupational health and safety research

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PIRC occupational health and safety research

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Amazon loses SEC Tax Resolution appeal

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Amazon loses SEC Tax Resolution appeal

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Uncovering Social Washing

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Uncovering Social Washing

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Investor Support for Amazon Tax Resolution

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Investor Support for Amazon Tax Resolution

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Climate Governance: Board governance and oversight for a just transition

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PIRC Workforce-related risks research

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PIRC Workforce-related risks research

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