Live Webinar
What Do Asset Managers Really Want (From Companies)?
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 | 7:00–8:00 PM (EDT)
Wednesday, March 30, 2022 | 8:00–9:00 AM (Japan Time)
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Featuring:
Jamie Allen, Secretary General, Asian Corporate Governance Association
Benjamin Colton, Global Head of Asset Stewardship, Voting & Engagement, State Street Global Advisors
Moderator: Alicia Ogawa, Project Director for Japanese Corporate Governance and Stewardship, Project on Japanese Corporate Governance and Stewardship, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School
What you'll learn:
● The meteoric rise of ESG investing strategies has made the role of asset managers more important than ever before in the history of the industry. How do asset managers actively seek to shape and change the behavior of companies on a variety of financial and non-financial issues? How do their approaches differ from country to country?
● The ESG agendas of asset managers need to be tailored to the specific legal, regulatory, and cultural environment of different countries. Diversity has a different context in Japan than it does in the US, for example. CEO compensation is often an issue of too much in the US, and too little in Japan.
How do global asset managers balance their ESG agendas to reflect local circumstances? How do they define ESG priorities for companies with global operations and global supply chains that operate across many countries, cultures, and legal systems?
● What are the key issues on which asset managers are coming together as an industry to promote in Asian countries as a whole vs. Japan, and vs. the US? How has the global pandemic affected this agenda?