Investment stewardship and the shareholder voice are critical tools to push public companies for positive change and, we believe, represent important ways of enabling our clients to have impact beyond their investment capital alone. The shareholder resolution process allows clients, in partnership with shareholder advocacy experts, to engage with the companies in which they have invested to address a broad range of financially material issues such as building teams that represent a broad range of perspectives, setting and meeting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets and addressing the risks of misinformation and disinformation on major technology platforms.
How Shareholder Advocacy Works at LNW
Eligible LNW clients can support critical impact resolutions with a simple signature. Every year, shareholder advocacy experts at organizations such as As You Sow, Open MIC and Reproductive Health Investors Alliance draft resolutions for which they need investor support in order to file for corporate annual meetings. For the 2024 annual meeting season, those issues included climate change, racial justice, corporate governance, microplastic pollution and more. We notify all eligible clients of the opportunity. Interested clients then choose if they want to support the proposals by signing a letter authorizing the shareholder advocacy organizations to file resolutions on their behalf.
We invite you to learn more about our clients’ participation in the 2024 proxy season through our 2024 Shareholder Resolution Impact Report.
