Engagement, Research, and Policy Resources
FOR SAVERS
We provide resources and training to help pension savers better understand the investment system and their role within it, as well as the tools to reprogramme the status quo.FOR INVESTORS
We rank pension providers and asset managers on responsible investment. Our briefings and reports investigate how they can in turn tackle key problems through capital markets.FOR POLICY-MAKERS
We offer practical recommendations and guidance to policy-makers and regulators to promote a financial system that works in savers’ best interests in the UK and Europe.Resources for savers
We provide resources and training to help individual pension savers better understand the investment system and their role within it, as well as the tools to reprogramme the status quo of the corporate world and investment system.
Our feature resource for savers
Mission: Pension Power
This guide will help you use the power of your pension to create change through the investment system on the issues that matter to you, from climate change to fair pay.
Our latest resources for savers
Pensions for the Next Generation: Communicating What Matters
17 March 2018
This report explores the attitudes of young savers towards their pensions and proposes easy, low-cost solutions that will help switch millennials on to the power of their savings.
Local Government Pension Funds – Divest From Carbon Campaign: A UNISON Guide
10 January 2018
This is a guide to help UNISON members understand the risk climate change poses to their savings and what actions they can take to protect their pensions.
Our latest videos
Resources for investors
Our annual surveys rank big pension providers or asset managers on responsible investment. Our briefings and reports investigate how industry professionals can tackle key environmental, social, and governance problems through capital markets.
Our latest surveys & rankings
Point of No Returns Part III – Climate Change
11 June 2020
This report looks at 75 of the world’s largest asset managers and their performance on responsible investment, with a specific focus being on climate change. It is the second of four reports in our ‘Points of No Returns‘ series.
Point of No Returns Part IV – Biodiversity
11 June 2020
This report looks at 75 of the world’s largest asset managers and their performance on responsible investment, with a specific focus being on biodiversity. It is the second of four reports in our ‘Points of No Returns‘ series.
Point of No Returns Part II – Human Rights
14 May 2020
This report looks at 75 of the world’s largest asset managers and their performance on responsible investment, with a specific focus being on human rights. It is the second of four reports in our ‘Points of No Returns‘ series.
Our latest investor briefings & reports
A Healthy Investment: The importance of prioritising health in the food and drink manufacturing sector
30 July 2020
This briefing examines the role food and drink manufacturers have to play in the fight against obesity and why it is vital these companies – and those who invest in them – prioritise health.
Insecure Work in Insecure Times
16 July 2020
This briefing intends to build the case that the growth of insecure work has been driven, willingly or not, by investor demands for shareholder value and that investors should therefore be considering and engaging with companies on how their workforce policies and practices might be driving greater insecure work.
Why investors should vote for climate at the 2020 ExxonMobil AGM
12 May 2020
ShareAction recommends that investors take a strong voting stance on director re-election at the 2020 ExxonMobil AGM, and encourages investors to also support items 4 and 9 on the ballot.
Resources for policy-makers
We provide practical recommendations and guidance to policy-makers and regulators to promote responsible investment and a pension system that works in savers’ best interests in the UK and Europe.
Our latest policy briefings & resources
Amending sectoral legislation to integrate end-investors’ sustainability preferences
8 July 2020
ShareAction, the responsible investment advocacy group, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to the draft Delegated Acts presented by the European Commission on the obligation of investment firms, investment funds, mutual funds and insurance firms to advise clients on social and environmental aspects of financial products, amending UCITS, MiFID II and IDD.
Raising the bar on corporate disclosure with an ambitious NFRD-Review
17 June 2020
ShareAction has responded to the public consultation on the review of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD).
Virtual AGMs in the wake of Covid-19
26 March 2020
ShareAction has called on the UK Government to protect shareholder democracy during virtual annual general meetings (AGMs) in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In a letter to Alok Sharma, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, ShareAction asks BEIS to issue clear guidance to ensure the process for accessing, asking questions and voting at digital AGMs continues to be easy and accessible to all shareholders, to ensure that AGMs maintain their usual standards of transparency. While these measures are eminently sensible precaution to take in these times,they should be a temporary solution.
Our latest consultation submissions
Amending sectoral legislation to integrate end-investors’ sustainability preferences
8 July 2020 ShareAction, the responsible investment advocacy group, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to the draft Delegated Acts presented by the European Commission on the obligation of investment firms, investment funds, mutual funds and insurance firms to advise clients on social and environmental aspects of financial products, amending UCITS, MiFID II and IDD.
Raising the bar on corporate disclosure with an ambitious NFRD-Review
17 June 2020 ShareAction has responded to the public consultation on the review of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD).
Response to LGPS consultation on responsible investment guidance
10 January 2020
ShareAction responds to a consultation on the Local Government Pension Scheme’s guidance on responsible investment.