Stewardship
Illinois treasurer and Maryland comptroller join opposition to Exxon’s leadership
Ahead of Exxon Mobil’s AGM on 29 May, the state comptrollers for Maryland and the treasurer for Illinois have also joined the pushback against Exxon's leadership
Wespath’s Schoeppner: why we are calling for a vote against Exxon’s CEO
NZI caught up with Lucas Schoeppner, manager Sustainable Investment Stewardship at Wespath to find out why he is calling for a vote against Exxon's leadership
Asset owners call out Shell’s LNG expansion plans
Oil giant Shell is putting Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) at the heart of its expansion plans but ahead of its AGM, asset owners warn it is failing to meet Paris targets
Now:Pensions’ Keith Guthrie on ditching third party managers and new stewardship strategies
UK master trust Now:Pension has ceased relationships with its third party managers over stewardship misalignment. NZI caught up with Keith Guthrie, head of sustainability at Cardano and Now:Pensions to find out more
Shareholders back off BP to ramp up pressure on Shell and Exxon
Shareholders have overwhelmingly supported BP’s board despite the oil and gas supermajor backtracking on its climate targets, focussing their pressure on Shell and Exxon instead
Brunel to vote against Exxon’s board
Brunel Pension Partnership has announced that it will vote against all all management resolutions at the forthcoming Exxon AGM in response to the oil firm's legal threats against shareholders
Why universal owners need modest objectives
Tom Gosling, executive fellow at London Business School argues that by aiming for less, asset owners can achieve more as universal owners
No-action requests 2024: the climate resolutions companies don’t want to discuss
2024 saw a surge of corporate no-action requests to prevent resolutions from being heard, Atharva Deshmukh examines how the reasoning behind them has evolved
‘CalPERS will not be silenced’ pension fund CEO warns Exxon Mobil
CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost has issued a stark warning to US oil giant Exxon, stressing that shareholders would not be silenced on climate change
Rebellion brewing as Exxon targets shareholder dissent with No Action requests
Oil giant Exxon Mobil has successfully filed a No Action Request against a resolution put forward by As You Sow, but shareholders are now calling to vote against the board