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"Empty Voting" is when an investor uses borrowed shares to vote at an AGM or EGM. Mediobanca voted borrowed shares at a Generali AGM.

Timed to coincide with the closing of COP26, this show covers securities finance, ESG and related topics

Do you ever feel that 'ESG' as a term runs the risk of diluting its underlying goals and becoming used as a label to tick boxes?

What got me thinking was that regulation is never over.

This story identifies interesting themes to watch for 2021 regarding ESG and securities lending

looking for stories of interest, the sector written about more than almost any other is Environmental, Social and Governance, ESG

On Tuesday, 24 November, 3 pm GMT, we will be hosting a webinar to introduce the team at Pierpoint. Register at https://bit.ly/PFCIntro

Four years ago this month, I made my annual pilgrimage to the RMA Securities Lending conference in Boca Raton, Florida.

From the desk of Roy Zimmerhansl Practice Lead, Pierpoint Financial Consulting Over the past three months, we have seen a significant...

From the desk of Roy Zimmerhansl Practice Lead, Pierpoint Financial Consulting The cry for increased transparency is often the first port...

John Arnesen and Roy Zimmerhansl are quoted in The Sustainability Report article which examines how asset owners are increasingly...

Securities lending makes a positive contribution to well functioning markets in five different ways.

Whenever an investor such as GPIF takes such a decision it is worth. Our view s that the reasons for continuing to lend remain in place

To be fully in line with lenders' investing principles, securities lending must adapt its business practices to embrace ESG requirements.

The discussion was focused on ESG issues as well as short selling and securities lending.

The programme included discussion on momentum investing, ESG, the recent repo market ructions and of course heady music.

Zimmerhansl - ESG as increasingly important issue for institutional investors, part of their governance process and portfolio construction

Securities lending must reflect investor principles for ESG across the spectrum of voting, collateral management and tax

Pierpoint Financial Consulting partners moderated 2 panels at IMN Beneficial Owners Securities Finance & Collateral Management conference

Roy Zimmerhansl will be speaking to an audience of UK Local Authorities on the topic of "Responsible Investment and Stock Lending"