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Pass-through voting: can greater investor voice strengthen sustainable stewardship?
What can investors do about climate change?
Juanita Gonzalez Uribe's project selected for LSE-Tsinghua University Sustainability Research Fund
Financial Markets Group research profiled by the Investor Forum
Research Projects
What can investors do about climate change?
This project seeks to reexamine core assumptions about the role of investors in addressing climate change and to explore what credible, evidencebased climate goals, targetsetting approaches, and...
What does sustainable investing mean to consumers?
The project investigates both the motivations retail investors articulate and the behaviours they exhibit when allocating capital across sustainable and traditional products through a combination of...
Connecting or dividing? The stewardship implications of pass-through voting
Pass-through voting is an innovation that provides investors in pooled funds with the ability to direct votes in proportion to their holdings. We partnered with the Investor & Issuer Forum to study...
The effectiveness of sustainable investing
Fostering engagement between practitioners and academics to develop a shared understanding of the opportunities and limits of sustainable investing.
Latest Publications
The Emergence of Pass-Through Voting and its Implications for Shareholder Stewardship
Pass-through voting is emerging as an important feature of the investor stewardship ecosystem following the recent introduction of voting choice...
Leverage, Engagement, and Welfare in Decentralised Financial Markets
Can financial intermediaries help solve the externalities of the real-economy, even when all investors are purely return-driven? This paper develops a...
Do Climate Disclosure Mandates Help Decarbonise the Economy?
This Policy Brief reviews the convincing academic evidence which shows that climate disclosure mandates introduced in the UK did lead to reductions in...
Behind the Corporate Veil: How Business Groups Arbitrage ESG Disclosure Mandates
We examine how ESG disclosure mandates introduced in the headquarters countries of business groups affect the ESG performance of both parent companies...
Financing a Sustainable Future Podcast
The Financing a Sustainable Future Podcast is a series of discussions with leading LSE Academics on their research in Sustainable Finance. The discussions are intended to bring research findings to practitioners in a way that is comprehensible and actionable, while informing them of the state of the art in research in the sustainable finance field.
Tom Gosling, Professor in Practice at the Financial Markets Group, hosts the series, interviewing authors of academic papers to uncover their key insights.
To listen to the Podcast and read the articles, click below.
