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Engagement Letters and Resources

Identify Key Governance and ESG Issues Important to Investors

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As regulatory requirements and investor expectations grow, effective shareholder engagement is more important than ever. Glass Lewis’ investor engagement letters on Governance Hub help you identify key shareholder concerns, enabling you to craft timely and effective responses.

Key Features and Benefits

Proactively Address Concerns

Leveraging the Engagement Letters on Governance Hub allows you to proactively address concerns, helping to mitigate risks and strengthen shareholder relationships.

Understand Global Engagement Trends

Access reports detailing focus list selection, engagement themes, and case studies from our Active Stewardship Engagement Program.

Strengthen Governance and ESG Practices

Leverage engagement reports to identify peer challenges, understand areas for improvement, or showcase your company’s competitive advantages.

Download our 2024 Active Stewardship Engagement Report

Market-Leading Governance Platform

Our Engagement Letters and Resources are available via our user-friendly governance platform, Governance Hub. Clients can also access our corporate governance research thought leadership, and policy guidelines through the platform.

Overview of Glass Lewis' Stewardship Solutions

Glass Lewis' Stewardship team engages with hundreds of issuers globally each year on behalf of institutional investors. Below are the engagement programs we offer.

Custom Engagement Services

Glass Lewis' Stewardship team engages with hundreds of issuers globally each year on behalf of institutional investors. Below are the engagement programs we offer.

Identify the issue(s) 

Investors determine the voting issues they want to engage on, such as say-on-pay votes or other shareholder proposals.

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Screen the votes 

Glass Lewis helps investors to identify the specific vote decisions and criteria to screen for, based on their voting policy, and the list of companies to target with the campaign.

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Engage with target companies

Glass Lewis helps investors to draft the engagement outreach and determine when to engage, depending on their desired outcomes.

Track the results

All engagement outreach and company responses are tracked on our Engagement Management Platform.

Active Stewardship Engagement Services

Glass Lewis’ Active Stewardship Engagement Program enables investors to maximize their engagement efficiency and impact by signing on to our program. Our focus list of 200+ global companies cover a wide range of sectors and themes. Focus list companies are selected through a comprehensive and structured screening process of ESG data,
GlaLewis Controversy Alerts, and AGM vote result analysis.

Initial Outreach

Glass Lewis’ Stewardship team identifies a material issue at a focus list company and identifies the appropriate contact. We notify the company by sending an engagement letter through email and Governance Hub, our corporate platform used by 3,000+ subscribers.

Regular Engagement

We schedule engagement meetings with the company to discuss the issues and conduct follow-ups via email or through meetings at least twice per year.

Progress Tracking

All progress on engagement milestones and communication is tracked on our Engagement Management Platform until the issue is resolved.

The company has been contacted by the Stewardship team

The company has expressed its intention to consider the concern

The company has at least partially addressed the issue through enhanced disclosure or practices

Action completed

The company has satisfactorily addressed the issue

The company made progress on engagement milestones in the last twelve months

The company's progress on engagement milestones remained the same in the last twelve months

Insufficient progress

The company showed deteriorating performance, failed to take sufficient action, or did not act within the last twelve months

Related Products and Services

Governance Hub

Flexible stewardship solutions, ranging from custom services to active engagement, backed by an advanced reporting platform.

Corporate Governance Research

Digestible data on company ESG practices to empower investor decision-making.

Controversy Alerts

Concise risk alerts highlighting key ESG issues for upcoming shareholder meetings.

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