Responsible investment policies are the foundation on which ESG activities are built. We work with clients to produce policies and statements focused on their responsible investment priorities and designed to shape their ESG plans.

Industry codes help ensure clients are following responsible investment best practices. PIRC supports and advises clients on meeting standards such as the Stewardship Code and PRI reporting.

Regulation and government policy shape the environment in which responsible investors operate. To support the interests of long-term investors, PIRC advises clients on public policy matters, including, regulatory reforms, consultations, and engagement with the policymaking process.

PIRC provides training on the basics of responsible investment to the more technical aspects of the industry.

To help inform clients and their stakeholders, PIRC organises conferences and seminars to provide insights from industry leaders and stakeholders on responsible investment issues.

As part of our approach to transparency, we provide face-to-face feedback to clients on work undertaken on their behalf, including at pension committees and annual meetings of scheme members. PIRC also provides presentations and in person advice on ESG risks.

Climate change is a top concern for us and our clients. We offer a range of advisory services, including on climate policies, code compliance, training and presentations and briefings on emerging issues.

PIRC was founded by eight UK local authority pension funds in the 1980s and continues to this day its close relationship with the LGPS. PIRC has extensive knowledge and experience providing advice and support to funds and pools on their specific regulatory requirements and ESG needs as public-facing administering authorities.

We are committed to using data to understand your risks. PIRC’s global proxy research, covering every equity in our clients’ portfolios, alerts clients to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations and advise on engagement strategies.

Not all sectors face the same risks or behave in the same way. To help inform clients about specific responsible investment risks, PIRC produces bespoke reports for clients on different industrial sectors.

Climate change poses specific and significant risk to investors. Our research services offer client insights into company performance and   emerging risks to help you assess and manage the responsible investment threats.

Some ESG issues can be overlooked or are just emerging. To support of our clients understand their risks, PIRC produces briefings and reports on specific environmental, social and governance issues.

Relying solely on company disclosures risks investors overlooking ESG threats. To provide a more comprehensive appraisal of risks, PIRC engages affected stakeholders and uses this information to produce reports and briefings for clients.

PIRC not only highlights risks but advises on how they can be addressed. To do so, PIRC produces reports and briefings to help clients develop governance and public policy positions and investor expectations documents.

PIRC works with clients to design research and reports tailored to meet the specific needs of clients. This can be a focus on specific sectors, themes, stakeholders and policies or a combination of them.

Our weekly client newsletter PIRC Alerts is a must view source of market, investor and company developments for the responsible investment community. The newsletter provides company-specific commentary, and news of market and regulatory developments. It is widely read in the City, and frequently quoted in specialist and national media. Our clients are entitled to an Alerts subscription. However, it can be ordered separately for an annual subscription.

As part of our offer to keep our clients informed about company developments, we produce a weekly PIRC Watch List. This newsletter keeps our clients up to date about company controversies, prominent responsible investment issues reported over the week, and ongoing concerns at companies with an imminent annual general or special meeting.

Each investor has their own specific portfolio and responsible investment policies. As such, each investor has their own set of ESG risks. PIRC therefore works with clients to design engagement strategies and objectives based on their own unique set of risks.

To change company behaviour and reduce investment risk, PIRC engages directly with company boards and representatives on ESG issues. PIRC sets meeting objectives and reports back to clients on the outcomes.

As part of our approach to effecting change through engagement, PIRC attends AGMs to meet and put questions direct to company boards.

Company policies and practices can at times be too slow to change. PIRC therefore supports clients escalate engagements by drafting and facilitating the filing shareholder resolutions.

PIRC enables clients to work with other investors to amplify the voice of shareholders through collaborative engagements.

PIRC’s unique approach to engagement includes engaging stakeholders on their concerns. This approach helps our clients more fully understand ESG risks facing investee companies and informs our company engagements.

Like our clients we recognise the urgency of ensuring companies are aligning their business plans to a decarbonised future. Our engagement team has decades experience engaging on climate issues coupled with detailed knowledge of specific sectoral issues. This winning combination helps us secure changes that our clients want to see at companies.

PIRC is committed to transparently reporting engagement activity. We provide clients with information, data and reports on engagement activity, including issues covered, type of activity, and outcomes.

Since the 1980s, PIRC has been at the forefront of developing best practice corporate governance guides. Based on this knowledge and experience, our Shareholder Voting Guidelines enables clients to exercise their ownership rights in a consistent and informed way.

PIRC’s voting service is flexible to the needs and interests of our clients. This includes working with clients to tailor voting guidelines to meet their specific responsible investment policies.

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations.

PIRC provides a vote execution service for all proxies in our client portfolios. Our service includes a client review and vote-change mechanism through our online platform ensuring you have complete control of voting decisions.

Climate change has become a significant part of AGM agendas. Our services ensure that clients have the information and advice to exercise their shareholder rights on climate change. To do so, PIRC provides research on company climate performance, voting guidance and advice on filing climate resolutions.

PIRC not only supports clients to exercise their voting rights, we also provide analysis of voting outcomes. This quarterly analysis enables clients to understand market concerns and support their own stewardship disclosures to beneficiaries and stakeholders.

Our voting analysis extends beyond aggregate market trends to examining the actions of specific managers. This analysis enables clients to understand how their managers and the main players in the market are voting, and how this might differ with client positions.

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks.

Based on decades of knowledge, PIRC’s governance risk rating model enables clients to identify threats in their portfolio. These insights are used to inform engagement strategies and assist portfolio construction.

Understanding investment risks requires a deep understanding of a company’s environmental performance. PIRC provides clients with environmental and climate change data on a company-by-company basis that is needed to inform their thinking and decision making.

PIRC provides analysis so clients can understand their investment performance benchmarked to peer investors. For example, our Local Authority Pension Performance Analytics (LAPPA) service provides performance analysis for multiple local authority clients.

Effecting change can take time. PIRC’s engagement database enables clients to track activity by issue, company, and outcome and supports clients own reporting to stakeholders.

PIRC has developed a unique dataset tracking company performance on workforce issues. This data helps clients identify risks and shape engagement activity.

Employment issues are often the least considered part of responsible investment. Our research reports on the world of work provide clients with original and valued insights specifically tailored for the investor community.

Using our expertise in labour issues, PIRC provides clients with a specialist engagement service to improve employment policies and practices.

The race to net zero has the potential to create jobs and growth, but could also have very negative implications for some workers and communities which pose their own ESG threats. PIRC therefore provides research, engagement, and advice to responsible investors on ensuring a just transition.

PIRC hosts events on employment issues which couple our in-house insights and with outside expertise to inform clients on employment risks.

PIRC provides advice on developing approaches on social issues. This advice includes the investor case for action, investor commitment on social and labour issues and understanding opportunities for influence.

In 2020, PIRC launched the first employment-focused ESG newsletter which provides clients with new perspectives into employment issues affecting investors.

PIRC supports clients to foster collaboration between workers and investors, including forming and participating in coalitions to effect change on labour issues.

Responsible investment policies are the foundation on which ESG activities are built. We work with clients to produce policies and statements focused on their responsible investment priorities and designed to shape their ESG plans.

Industry codes help ensure clients are following responsible investment best practices. PIRC supports and advises clients on meeting standards such as the Stewardship Code and PRI reporting.

Regulation and government policy shape the environment in which responsible investors operate. To support the interests of long-term investors, PIRC advises clients on public policy matters, including, regulatory reforms, consultations, and engagement with the policymaking process.

PIRC provides training on the basics of responsible investment to the more technical aspects of the industry.

To help inform clients and their stakeholders, PIRC organises conferences and seminars to provide insights from industry leaders and stakeholders on responsible investment issues.

As part of our approach to transparency, we provide face-to-face feedback to clients on work undertaken on their behalf, including at pension committees and annual meetings of scheme members. PIRC also provides presentations and in person advice on ESG risks.

Climate change is a top concern for us and our clients. We offer a range of advisory services, including on climate policies, code compliance, training and presentations and briefings on emerging issues.

PIRC was founded by eight UK local authority pension funds in the 1980s and continues to this day its close relationship with the LGPS. PIRC has extensive knowledge and experience providing advice and support to funds and pools on their specific regulatory requirements and ESG needs as public-facing administering authorities.

We are committed to using data to understand your risks. PIRC’s global proxy research, covering every equity in our clients’ portfolios, alerts clients to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations and advise on engagement strategies.

Not all sectors face the same risks or behave in the same way. To help inform clients about specific responsible investment risks, PIRC produces bespoke reports for clients on different industrial sectors.

Climate change poses specific and significant risk to investors. Our research services offer client insights into company performance and   emerging risks to help you assess and manage the responsible investment threats.

Some ESG issues can be overlooked or are just emerging. To support of our clients understand their risks, PIRC produces briefings and reports on specific environmental, social and governance issues.

Relying solely on company disclosures risks investors overlooking ESG threats. To provide a more comprehensive appraisal of risks, PIRC engages affected stakeholders and uses this information to produce reports and briefings for clients.

PIRC not only highlights risks but advises on how they can be addressed. To do so, PIRC produces reports and briefings to help clients develop governance and public policy positions and investor expectations documents.

PIRC works with clients to design research and reports tailored to meet the specific needs of clients. This can be a focus on specific sectors, themes, stakeholders and policies or a combination of them.

Our weekly client newsletter PIRC Alerts is a must view source of market, investor and company developments for the responsible investment community. The newsletter provides company-specific commentary, and news of market and regulatory developments. It is widely read in the City, and frequently quoted in specialist and national media. Our clients are entitled to an Alerts subscription. However, it can be ordered separately for an annual subscription.

As part of our offer to keep our clients informed about company developments, we produce a weekly PIRC Watch List. This newsletter keeps our clients up to date about company controversies, prominent responsible investment issues reported over the week, and ongoing concerns at companies with an imminent annual general or special meeting.

Each investor has their own specific portfolio and responsible investment policies. As such, each investor has their own set of ESG risks. PIRC therefore works with clients to design engagement strategies and objectives based on their own unique set of risks.

To change company behaviour and reduce investment risk, PIRC engages directly with company boards and representatives on ESG issues. PIRC sets meeting objectives and reports back to clients on the outcomes.

As part of our approach to effecting change through engagement, PIRC attends AGMs to meet and put questions direct to company boards.

Company policies and practices can at times be too slow to change. PIRC therefore supports clients escalate engagements by drafting and facilitating the filing shareholder resolutions.

PIRC enables clients to work with other investors to amplify the voice of shareholders through collaborative engagements.

PIRC’s unique approach to engagement includes engaging stakeholders on their concerns. This approach helps our clients more fully understand ESG risks facing investee companies and informs our company engagements.

Like our clients we recognise the urgency of ensuring companies are aligning their business plans to a decarbonised future. Our engagement team has decades experience engaging on climate issues coupled with detailed knowledge of specific sectoral issues. This winning combination helps us secure changes that our clients want to see at companies.

PIRC is committed to transparently reporting engagement activity. We provide clients with information, data and reports on engagement activity, including issues covered, type of activity, and outcomes.

Since the 1980s, PIRC has been at the forefront of developing best practice corporate governance guides. Based on this knowledge and experience, our Shareholder Voting Guidelines enables clients to exercise their ownership rights in a consistent and informed way.

PIRC’s voting service is flexible to the needs and interests of our clients. This includes working with clients to tailor voting guidelines to meet their specific responsible investment policies.

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations.

PIRC provides a vote execution service for all proxies in our client portfolios. Our service includes a client review and vote-change mechanism through our online platform ensuring you have complete control of voting decisions.

Climate change has become a significant part of AGM agendas. Our services ensure that clients have the information and advice to exercise their shareholder rights on climate change. To do so, PIRC provides research on company climate performance, voting guidance and advice on filing climate resolutions.

PIRC not only supports clients to exercise their voting rights, we also provide analysis of voting outcomes. This quarterly analysis enables clients to understand market concerns and support their own stewardship disclosures to beneficiaries and stakeholders.

Our voting analysis extends beyond aggregate market trends to examining the actions of specific managers. This analysis enables clients to understand how their managers and the main players in the market are voting, and how this might differ with client positions.

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks.

Based on decades of knowledge, PIRC’s governance risk rating model enables clients to identify threats in their portfolio. These insights are used to inform engagement strategies and assist portfolio construction.

Understanding investment risks requires a deep understanding of a company’s environmental performance. PIRC provides clients with environmental and climate change data on a company-by-company basis that is needed to inform their thinking and decision making.

PIRC provides analysis so clients can understand their investment performance benchmarked to peer investors. For example, our Local Authority Pension Performance Analytics (LAPPA) service provides performance analysis for multiple local authority clients.

Effecting change can take time. PIRC’s engagement database enables clients to track activity by issue, company, and outcome and supports clients own reporting to stakeholders.

PIRC has developed a unique dataset tracking company performance on workforce issues. This data helps clients identify risks and shape engagement activity.

Employment issues are often the least considered part of responsible investment. Our research reports on the world of work provide clients with original and valued insights specifically tailored for the investor community.

Using our expertise in labour issues, PIRC provides clients with a specialist engagement service to improve employment policies and practices.

The race to net zero has the potential to create jobs and growth, but could also have very negative implications for some workers and communities which pose their own ESG threats. PIRC therefore provides research, engagement, and advice to responsible investors on ensuring a just transition.

PIRC hosts events on employment issues which couple our in-house insights and with outside expertise to inform clients on employment risks.

PIRC provides advice on developing approaches on social issues. This advice includes the investor case for action, investor commitment on social and labour issues and understanding opportunities for influence.

In 2020, PIRC launched the first employment-focused ESG newsletter which provides clients with new perspectives into employment issues affecting investors.

PIRC supports clients to foster collaboration between workers and investors, including forming and participating in coalitions to effect change on labour issues.

Responsible investment policies are the foundation on which ESG activities are built. We work with clients to produce policies and statements focused on their responsible investment priorities and designed to shape their ESG plans.

Industry codes help ensure clients are following responsible investment best practices. PIRC supports and advises clients on meeting standards such as the Stewardship Code and PRI reporting.

Regulation and government policy shape the environment in which responsible investors operate. To support the interests of long-term investors, PIRC advises clients on public policy matters, including, regulatory reforms, consultations, and engagement with the policymaking process.

PIRC provides training on the basics of responsible investment to the more technical aspects of the industry.

To help inform clients and their stakeholders, PIRC organises conferences and seminars to provide insights from industry leaders and stakeholders on responsible investment issues.

As part of our approach to transparency, we provide face-to-face feedback to clients on work undertaken on their behalf, including at pension committees and annual meetings of scheme members. PIRC also provides presentations and in person advice on ESG risks.

Climate change is a top concern for us and our clients. We offer a range of advisory services, including on climate policies, code compliance, training and presentations and briefings on emerging issues.

PIRC was founded by eight UK local authority pension funds in the 1980s and continues to this day its close relationship with the LGPS. PIRC has extensive knowledge and experience providing advice and support to funds and pools on their specific regulatory requirements and ESG needs as public-facing administering authorities.

We are committed to using data to understand your risks. PIRC’s global proxy research, covering every equity in our clients’ portfolios, alerts clients to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations and advise on engagement strategies.

Not all sectors face the same risks or behave in the same way. To help inform clients about specific responsible investment risks, PIRC produces bespoke reports for clients on different industrial sectors.

Climate change poses specific and significant risk to investors. Our research services offer client insights into company performance and   emerging risks to help you assess and manage the responsible investment threats.

Some ESG issues can be overlooked or are just emerging. To support of our clients understand their risks, PIRC produces briefings and reports on specific environmental, social and governance issues.

Relying solely on company disclosures risks investors overlooking ESG threats. To provide a more comprehensive appraisal of risks, PIRC engages affected stakeholders and uses this information to produce reports and briefings for clients.

PIRC not only highlights risks but advises on how they can be addressed. To do so, PIRC produces reports and briefings to help clients develop governance and public policy positions and investor expectations documents.

PIRC works with clients to design research and reports tailored to meet the specific needs of clients. This can be a focus on specific sectors, themes, stakeholders and policies or a combination of them.

Our weekly client newsletter PIRC Alerts is a must view source of market, investor and company developments for the responsible investment community. The newsletter provides company-specific commentary, and news of market and regulatory developments. It is widely read in the City, and frequently quoted in specialist and national media. Our clients are entitled to an Alerts subscription. However, it can be ordered separately for an annual subscription.

As part of our offer to keep our clients informed about company developments, we produce a weekly PIRC Watch List. This newsletter keeps our clients up to date about company controversies, prominent responsible investment issues reported over the week, and ongoing concerns at companies with an imminent annual general or special meeting.

Each investor has their own specific portfolio and responsible investment policies. As such, each investor has their own set of ESG risks. PIRC therefore works with clients to design engagement strategies and objectives based on their own unique set of risks.

To change company behaviour and reduce investment risk, PIRC engages directly with company boards and representatives on ESG issues. PIRC sets meeting objectives and reports back to clients on the outcomes.

As part of our approach to effecting change through engagement, PIRC attends AGMs to meet and put questions direct to company boards.

Company policies and practices can at times be too slow to change. PIRC therefore supports clients escalate engagements by drafting and facilitating the filing shareholder resolutions.

PIRC enables clients to work with other investors to amplify the voice of shareholders through collaborative engagements.

PIRC’s unique approach to engagement includes engaging stakeholders on their concerns. This approach helps our clients more fully understand ESG risks facing investee companies and informs our company engagements.

Like our clients we recognise the urgency of ensuring companies are aligning their business plans to a decarbonised future. Our engagement team has decades experience engaging on climate issues coupled with detailed knowledge of specific sectoral issues. This winning combination helps us secure changes that our clients want to see at companies.

PIRC is committed to transparently reporting engagement activity. We provide clients with information, data and reports on engagement activity, including issues covered, type of activity, and outcomes.

Since the 1980s, PIRC has been at the forefront of developing best practice corporate governance guides. Based on this knowledge and experience, our Shareholder Voting Guidelines enables clients to exercise their ownership rights in a consistent and informed way.

PIRC’s voting service is flexible to the needs and interests of our clients. This includes working with clients to tailor voting guidelines to meet their specific responsible investment policies.

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations.

PIRC provides a vote execution service for all proxies in our client portfolios. Our service includes a client review and vote-change mechanism through our online platform ensuring you have complete control of voting decisions.

Climate change has become a significant part of AGM agendas. Our services ensure that clients have the information and advice to exercise their shareholder rights on climate change. To do so, PIRC provides research on company climate performance, voting guidance and advice on filing climate resolutions.

PIRC not only supports clients to exercise their voting rights, we also provide analysis of voting outcomes. This quarterly analysis enables clients to understand market concerns and support their own stewardship disclosures to beneficiaries and stakeholders.

Our voting analysis extends beyond aggregate market trends to examining the actions of specific managers. This analysis enables clients to understand how their managers and the main players in the market are voting, and how this might differ with client positions.

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks.

Based on decades of knowledge, PIRC’s governance risk rating model enables clients to identify threats in their portfolio. These insights are used to inform engagement strategies and assist portfolio construction.

Understanding investment risks requires a deep understanding of a company’s environmental performance. PIRC provides clients with environmental and climate change data on a company-by-company basis that is needed to inform their thinking and decision making.

PIRC provides analysis so clients can understand their investment performance benchmarked to peer investors. For example, our Local Authority Pension Performance Analytics (LAPPA) service provides performance analysis for multiple local authority clients.

Effecting change can take time. PIRC’s engagement database enables clients to track activity by issue, company, and outcome and supports clients own reporting to stakeholders.

PIRC has developed a unique dataset tracking company performance on workforce issues. This data helps clients identify risks and shape engagement activity.

Employment issues are often the least considered part of responsible investment. Our research reports on the world of work provide clients with original and valued insights specifically tailored for the investor community.

Using our expertise in labour issues, PIRC provides clients with a specialist engagement service to improve employment policies and practices.

The race to net zero has the potential to create jobs and growth, but could also have very negative implications for some workers and communities which pose their own ESG threats. PIRC therefore provides research, engagement, and advice to responsible investors on ensuring a just transition.

PIRC hosts events on employment issues which couple our in-house insights and with outside expertise to inform clients on employment risks.

PIRC provides advice on developing approaches on social issues. This advice includes the investor case for action, investor commitment on social and labour issues and understanding opportunities for influence.

In 2020, PIRC launched the first employment-focused ESG newsletter which provides clients with new perspectives into employment issues affecting investors.

PIRC supports clients to foster collaboration between workers and investors, including forming and participating in coalitions to effect change on labour issues.

Responsible investment policies are the foundation on which ESG activities are built. We work with clients to produce policies and statements focused on their responsible investment priorities and designed to shape their ESG plans.

Industry codes help ensure clients are following responsible investment best practices. PIRC supports and advises clients on meeting standards such as the Stewardship Code and PRI reporting.

Regulation and government policy shape the environment in which responsible investors operate. To support the interests of long-term investors, PIRC advises clients on public policy matters, including, regulatory reforms, consultations, and engagement with the policymaking process.

PIRC provides training on the basics of responsible investment to the more technical aspects of the industry.

To help inform clients and their stakeholders, PIRC organises conferences and seminars to provide insights from industry leaders and stakeholders on responsible investment issues.

As part of our approach to transparency, we provide face-to-face feedback to clients on work undertaken on their behalf, including at pension committees and annual meetings of scheme members. PIRC also provides presentations and in person advice on ESG risks.

Climate change is a top concern for us and our clients. We offer a range of advisory services, including on climate policies, code compliance, training and presentations and briefings on emerging issues.

PIRC was founded by eight UK local authority pension funds in the 1980s and continues to this day its close relationship with the LGPS. PIRC has extensive knowledge and experience providing advice and support to funds and pools on their specific regulatory requirements and ESG needs as public-facing administering authorities.

We are committed to using data to understand your risks. PIRC’s global proxy research, covering every equity in our clients’ portfolios, alerts clients to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations and advise on engagement strategies.

Not all sectors face the same risks or behave in the same way. To help inform clients about specific responsible investment risks, PIRC produces bespoke reports for clients on different industrial sectors.

Climate change poses specific and significant risk to investors. Our research services offer client insights into company performance and   emerging risks to help you assess and manage the responsible investment threats.

Some ESG issues can be overlooked or are just emerging. To support of our clients understand their risks, PIRC produces briefings and reports on specific environmental, social and governance issues.

Relying solely on company disclosures risks investors overlooking ESG threats. To provide a more comprehensive appraisal of risks, PIRC engages affected stakeholders and uses this information to produce reports and briefings for clients.

PIRC not only highlights risks but advises on how they can be addressed. To do so, PIRC produces reports and briefings to help clients develop governance and public policy positions and investor expectations documents.

PIRC works with clients to design research and reports tailored to meet the specific needs of clients. This can be a focus on specific sectors, themes, stakeholders and policies or a combination of them.

Our weekly client newsletter PIRC Alerts is a must view source of market, investor and company developments for the responsible investment community. The newsletter provides company-specific commentary, and news of market and regulatory developments. It is widely read in the City, and frequently quoted in specialist and national media. Our clients are entitled to an Alerts subscription. However, it can be ordered separately for an annual subscription.

As part of our offer to keep our clients informed about company developments, we produce a weekly PIRC Watch List. This newsletter keeps our clients up to date about company controversies, prominent responsible investment issues reported over the week, and ongoing concerns at companies with an imminent annual general or special meeting.

Each investor has their own specific portfolio and responsible investment policies. As such, each investor has their own set of ESG risks. PIRC therefore works with clients to design engagement strategies and objectives based on their own unique set of risks.

To change company behaviour and reduce investment risk, PIRC engages directly with company boards and representatives on ESG issues. PIRC sets meeting objectives and reports back to clients on the outcomes.

As part of our approach to effecting change through engagement, PIRC attends AGMs to meet and put questions direct to company boards.

Company policies and practices can at times be too slow to change. PIRC therefore supports clients escalate engagements by drafting and facilitating the filing shareholder resolutions.

PIRC enables clients to work with other investors to amplify the voice of shareholders through collaborative engagements.

PIRC’s unique approach to engagement includes engaging stakeholders on their concerns. This approach helps our clients more fully understand ESG risks facing investee companies and informs our company engagements.

Like our clients we recognise the urgency of ensuring companies are aligning their business plans to a decarbonised future. Our engagement team has decades experience engaging on climate issues coupled with detailed knowledge of specific sectoral issues. This winning combination helps us secure changes that our clients want to see at companies.

PIRC is committed to transparently reporting engagement activity. We provide clients with information, data and reports on engagement activity, including issues covered, type of activity, and outcomes.

Since the 1980s, PIRC has been at the forefront of developing best practice corporate governance guides. Based on this knowledge and experience, our Shareholder Voting Guidelines enables clients to exercise their ownership rights in a consistent and informed way.

PIRC’s voting service is flexible to the needs and interests of our clients. This includes working with clients to tailor voting guidelines to meet their specific responsible investment policies.

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations.

PIRC provides a vote execution service for all proxies in our client portfolios. Our service includes a client review and vote-change mechanism through our online platform ensuring you have complete control of voting decisions.

Climate change has become a significant part of AGM agendas. Our services ensure that clients have the information and advice to exercise their shareholder rights on climate change. To do so, PIRC provides research on company climate performance, voting guidance and advice on filing climate resolutions.

PIRC not only supports clients to exercise their voting rights, we also provide analysis of voting outcomes. This quarterly analysis enables clients to understand market concerns and support their own stewardship disclosures to beneficiaries and stakeholders.

Our voting analysis extends beyond aggregate market trends to examining the actions of specific managers. This analysis enables clients to understand how their managers and the main players in the market are voting, and how this might differ with client positions.

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks.

Based on decades of knowledge, PIRC’s governance risk rating model enables clients to identify threats in their portfolio. These insights are used to inform engagement strategies and assist portfolio construction.

Understanding investment risks requires a deep understanding of a company’s environmental performance. PIRC provides clients with environmental and climate change data on a company-by-company basis that is needed to inform their thinking and decision making.

PIRC provides analysis so clients can understand their investment performance benchmarked to peer investors. For example, our Local Authority Pension Performance Analytics (LAPPA) service provides performance analysis for multiple local authority clients.

Effecting change can take time. PIRC’s engagement database enables clients to track activity by issue, company, and outcome and supports clients own reporting to stakeholders.

PIRC has developed a unique dataset tracking company performance on workforce issues. This data helps clients identify risks and shape engagement activity.

Employment issues are often the least considered part of responsible investment. Our research reports on the world of work provide clients with original and valued insights specifically tailored for the investor community.

Using our expertise in labour issues, PIRC provides clients with a specialist engagement service to improve employment policies and practices.

The race to net zero has the potential to create jobs and growth, but could also have very negative implications for some workers and communities which pose their own ESG threats. PIRC therefore provides research, engagement, and advice to responsible investors on ensuring a just transition.

PIRC hosts events on employment issues which couple our in-house insights and with outside expertise to inform clients on employment risks.

PIRC provides advice on developing approaches on social issues. This advice includes the investor case for action, investor commitment on social and labour issues and understanding opportunities for influence.

In 2020, PIRC launched the first employment-focused ESG newsletter which provides clients with new perspectives into employment issues affecting investors.

PIRC supports clients to foster collaboration between workers and investors, including forming and participating in coalitions to effect change on labour issues.

Responsible investment policies are the foundation on which ESG activities are built. We work with clients to produce policies and statements focused on their responsible investment priorities and designed to shape their ESG plans.

Industry codes help ensure clients are following responsible investment best practices. PIRC supports and advises clients on meeting standards such as the Stewardship Code and PRI reporting.

Regulation and government policy shape the environment in which responsible investors operate. To support the interests of long-term investors, PIRC advises clients on public policy matters, including, regulatory reforms, consultations, and engagement with the policymaking process.

PIRC provides training on the basics of responsible investment to the more technical aspects of the industry.

To help inform clients and their stakeholders, PIRC organises conferences and seminars to provide insights from industry leaders and stakeholders on responsible investment issues.

As part of our approach to transparency, we provide face-to-face feedback to clients on work undertaken on their behalf, including at pension committees and annual meetings of scheme members. PIRC also provides presentations and in person advice on ESG risks.

Climate change is a top concern for us and our clients. We offer a range of advisory services, including on climate policies, code compliance, training and presentations and briefings on emerging issues.

PIRC was founded by eight UK local authority pension funds in the 1980s and continues to this day its close relationship with the LGPS. PIRC has extensive knowledge and experience providing advice and support to funds and pools on their specific regulatory requirements and ESG needs as public-facing administering authorities.

We are committed to using data to understand your risks. PIRC’s global proxy research, covering every equity in our clients’ portfolios, alerts clients to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations and advise on engagement strategies.

Not all sectors face the same risks or behave in the same way. To help inform clients about specific responsible investment risks, PIRC produces bespoke reports for clients on different industrial sectors.

Climate change poses specific and significant risk to investors. Our research services offer client insights into company performance and   emerging risks to help you assess and manage the responsible investment threats.

Some ESG issues can be overlooked or are just emerging. To support of our clients understand their risks, PIRC produces briefings and reports on specific environmental, social and governance issues.

Relying solely on company disclosures risks investors overlooking ESG threats. To provide a more comprehensive appraisal of risks, PIRC engages affected stakeholders and uses this information to produce reports and briefings for clients.

PIRC not only highlights risks but advises on how they can be addressed. To do so, PIRC produces reports and briefings to help clients develop governance and public policy positions and investor expectations documents.

PIRC works with clients to design research and reports tailored to meet the specific needs of clients. This can be a focus on specific sectors, themes, stakeholders and policies or a combination of them.

Our weekly client newsletter PIRC Alerts is a must view source of market, investor and company developments for the responsible investment community. The newsletter provides company-specific commentary, and news of market and regulatory developments. It is widely read in the City, and frequently quoted in specialist and national media. Our clients are entitled to an Alerts subscription. However, it can be ordered separately for an annual subscription.

As part of our offer to keep our clients informed about company developments, we produce a weekly PIRC Watch List. This newsletter keeps our clients up to date about company controversies, prominent responsible investment issues reported over the week, and ongoing concerns at companies with an imminent annual general or special meeting.

Each investor has their own specific portfolio and responsible investment policies. As such, each investor has their own set of ESG risks. PIRC therefore works with clients to design engagement strategies and objectives based on their own unique set of risks.

To change company behaviour and reduce investment risk, PIRC engages directly with company boards and representatives on ESG issues. PIRC sets meeting objectives and reports back to clients on the outcomes.

As part of our approach to effecting change through engagement, PIRC attends AGMs to meet and put questions direct to company boards.

Company policies and practices can at times be too slow to change. PIRC therefore supports clients escalate engagements by drafting and facilitating the filing shareholder resolutions.

PIRC enables clients to work with other investors to amplify the voice of shareholders through collaborative engagements.

PIRC’s unique approach to engagement includes engaging stakeholders on their concerns. This approach helps our clients more fully understand ESG risks facing investee companies and informs our company engagements.

Like our clients we recognise the urgency of ensuring companies are aligning their business plans to a decarbonised future. Our engagement team has decades experience engaging on climate issues coupled with detailed knowledge of specific sectoral issues. This winning combination helps us secure changes that our clients want to see at companies.

PIRC is committed to transparently reporting engagement activity. We provide clients with information, data and reports on engagement activity, including issues covered, type of activity, and outcomes.

Since the 1980s, PIRC has been at the forefront of developing best practice corporate governance guides. Based on this knowledge and experience, our Shareholder Voting Guidelines enables clients to exercise their ownership rights in a consistent and informed way.

PIRC’s voting service is flexible to the needs and interests of our clients. This includes working with clients to tailor voting guidelines to meet their specific responsible investment policies.

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations.

PIRC provides a vote execution service for all proxies in our client portfolios. Our service includes a client review and vote-change mechanism through our online platform ensuring you have complete control of voting decisions.

Climate change has become a significant part of AGM agendas. Our services ensure that clients have the information and advice to exercise their shareholder rights on climate change. To do so, PIRC provides research on company climate performance, voting guidance and advice on filing climate resolutions.

PIRC not only supports clients to exercise their voting rights, we also provide analysis of voting outcomes. This quarterly analysis enables clients to understand market concerns and support their own stewardship disclosures to beneficiaries and stakeholders.

Our voting analysis extends beyond aggregate market trends to examining the actions of specific managers. This analysis enables clients to understand how their managers and the main players in the market are voting, and how this might differ with client positions.

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks.

Based on decades of knowledge, PIRC’s governance risk rating model enables clients to identify threats in their portfolio. These insights are used to inform engagement strategies and assist portfolio construction.

Understanding investment risks requires a deep understanding of a company’s environmental performance. PIRC provides clients with environmental and climate change data on a company-by-company basis that is needed to inform their thinking and decision making.

PIRC provides analysis so clients can understand their investment performance benchmarked to peer investors. For example, our Local Authority Pension Performance Analytics (LAPPA) service provides performance analysis for multiple local authority clients.

Effecting change can take time. PIRC’s engagement database enables clients to track activity by issue, company, and outcome and supports clients own reporting to stakeholders.

PIRC has developed a unique dataset tracking company performance on workforce issues. This data helps clients identify risks and shape engagement activity.

Employment issues are often the least considered part of responsible investment. Our research reports on the world of work provide clients with original and valued insights specifically tailored for the investor community.

Using our expertise in labour issues, PIRC provides clients with a specialist engagement service to improve employment policies and practices.

The race to net zero has the potential to create jobs and growth, but could also have very negative implications for some workers and communities which pose their own ESG threats. PIRC therefore provides research, engagement, and advice to responsible investors on ensuring a just transition.

PIRC hosts events on employment issues which couple our in-house insights and with outside expertise to inform clients on employment risks.

PIRC provides advice on developing approaches on social issues. This advice includes the investor case for action, investor commitment on social and labour issues and understanding opportunities for influence.

In 2020, PIRC launched the first employment-focused ESG newsletter which provides clients with new perspectives into employment issues affecting investors.

PIRC supports clients to foster collaboration between workers and investors, including forming and participating in coalitions to effect change on labour issues.

Responsible investment policies are the foundation on which ESG activities are built. We work with clients to produce policies and statements focused on their responsible investment priorities and designed to shape their ESG plans.

Industry codes help ensure clients are following responsible investment best practices. PIRC supports and advises clients on meeting standards such as the Stewardship Code and PRI reporting.

Regulation and government policy shape the environment in which responsible investors operate. To support the interests of long-term investors, PIRC advises clients on public policy matters, including, regulatory reforms, consultations, and engagement with the policymaking process.

PIRC provides training on the basics of responsible investment to the more technical aspects of the industry.

To help inform clients and their stakeholders, PIRC organises conferences and seminars to provide insights from industry leaders and stakeholders on responsible investment issues.

As part of our approach to transparency, we provide face-to-face feedback to clients on work undertaken on their behalf, including at pension committees and annual meetings of scheme members. PIRC also provides presentations and in person advice on ESG risks.

Climate change is a top concern for us and our clients. We offer a range of advisory services, including on climate policies, code compliance, training and presentations and briefings on emerging issues.

PIRC was founded by eight UK local authority pension funds in the 1980s and continues to this day its close relationship with the LGPS. PIRC has extensive knowledge and experience providing advice and support to funds and pools on their specific regulatory requirements and ESG needs as public-facing administering authorities.

We are committed to using data to understand your risks. PIRC’s global proxy research, covering every equity in our clients’ portfolios, alerts clients to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations and advise on engagement strategies.

Not all sectors face the same risks or behave in the same way. To help inform clients about specific responsible investment risks, PIRC produces bespoke reports for clients on different industrial sectors.

Climate change poses specific and significant risk to investors. Our research services offer client insights into company performance and   emerging risks to help you assess and manage the responsible investment threats.

Some ESG issues can be overlooked or are just emerging. To support of our clients understand their risks, PIRC produces briefings and reports on specific environmental, social and governance issues.

Relying solely on company disclosures risks investors overlooking ESG threats. To provide a more comprehensive appraisal of risks, PIRC engages affected stakeholders and uses this information to produce reports and briefings for clients.

PIRC not only highlights risks but advises on how they can be addressed. To do so, PIRC produces reports and briefings to help clients develop governance and public policy positions and investor expectations documents.

PIRC works with clients to design research and reports tailored to meet the specific needs of clients. This can be a focus on specific sectors, themes, stakeholders and policies or a combination of them.

Our weekly client newsletter PIRC Alerts is a must view source of market, investor and company developments for the responsible investment community. The newsletter provides company-specific commentary, and news of market and regulatory developments. It is widely read in the City, and frequently quoted in specialist and national media. Our clients are entitled to an Alerts subscription. However, it can be ordered separately for an annual subscription.

As part of our offer to keep our clients informed about company developments, we produce a weekly PIRC Watch List. This newsletter keeps our clients up to date about company controversies, prominent responsible investment issues reported over the week, and ongoing concerns at companies with an imminent annual general or special meeting.

Each investor has their own specific portfolio and responsible investment policies. As such, each investor has their own set of ESG risks. PIRC therefore works with clients to design engagement strategies and objectives based on their own unique set of risks.

To change company behaviour and reduce investment risk, PIRC engages directly with company boards and representatives on ESG issues. PIRC sets meeting objectives and reports back to clients on the outcomes.

As part of our approach to effecting change through engagement, PIRC attends AGMs to meet and put questions direct to company boards.

Company policies and practices can at times be too slow to change. PIRC therefore supports clients escalate engagements by drafting and facilitating the filing shareholder resolutions.

PIRC enables clients to work with other investors to amplify the voice of shareholders through collaborative engagements.

PIRC’s unique approach to engagement includes engaging stakeholders on their concerns. This approach helps our clients more fully understand ESG risks facing investee companies and informs our company engagements.

Like our clients we recognise the urgency of ensuring companies are aligning their business plans to a decarbonised future. Our engagement team has decades experience engaging on climate issues coupled with detailed knowledge of specific sectoral issues. This winning combination helps us secure changes that our clients want to see at companies.

PIRC is committed to transparently reporting engagement activity. We provide clients with information, data and reports on engagement activity, including issues covered, type of activity, and outcomes.

Since the 1980s, PIRC has been at the forefront of developing best practice corporate governance guides. Based on this knowledge and experience, our Shareholder Voting Guidelines enables clients to exercise their ownership rights in a consistent and informed way.

PIRC’s voting service is flexible to the needs and interests of our clients. This includes working with clients to tailor voting guidelines to meet their specific responsible investment policies.

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks. Using our proprietary risk rating analysis, we then make voting recommendations.

PIRC provides a vote execution service for all proxies in our client portfolios. Our service includes a client review and vote-change mechanism through our online platform ensuring you have complete control of voting decisions.

Climate change has become a significant part of AGM agendas. Our services ensure that clients have the information and advice to exercise their shareholder rights on climate change. To do so, PIRC provides research on company climate performance, voting guidance and advice on filing climate resolutions.

PIRC not only supports clients to exercise their voting rights, we also provide analysis of voting outcomes. This quarterly analysis enables clients to understand market concerns and support their own stewardship disclosures to beneficiaries and stakeholders.

Our voting analysis extends beyond aggregate market trends to examining the actions of specific managers. This analysis enables clients to understand how their managers and the main players in the market are voting, and how this might differ with client positions.

PIRC produces trusted and comprehensive company information which is used by our clients to exercise their ownership rights. Our global proxy research is undertaken by a dedicated and experienced team of researchers. Information covers every equity in our clients’ portfolios and alerts them to major corporate governance, social and environmental risks.

Based on decades of knowledge, PIRC’s governance risk rating model enables clients to identify threats in their portfolio. These insights are used to inform engagement strategies and assist portfolio construction.

Understanding investment risks requires a deep understanding of a company’s environmental performance. PIRC provides clients with environmental and climate change data on a company-by-company basis that is needed to inform their thinking and decision making.

PIRC provides analysis so clients can understand their investment performance benchmarked to peer investors. For example, our Local Authority Pension Performance Analytics (LAPPA) service provides performance analysis for multiple local authority clients.

Effecting change can take time. PIRC’s engagement database enables clients to track activity by issue, company, and outcome and supports clients own reporting to stakeholders.

PIRC has developed a unique dataset tracking company performance on workforce issues. This data helps clients identify risks and shape engagement activity.

Employment issues are often the least considered part of responsible investment. Our research reports on the world of work provide clients with original and valued insights specifically tailored for the investor community.

Using our expertise in labour issues, PIRC provides clients with a specialist engagement service to improve employment policies and practices.

The race to net zero has the potential to create jobs and growth, but could also have very negative implications for some workers and communities which pose their own ESG threats. PIRC therefore provides research, engagement, and advice to responsible investors on ensuring a just transition.

PIRC hosts events on employment issues which couple our in-house insights and with outside expertise to inform clients on employment risks.

PIRC provides advice on developing approaches on social issues. This advice includes the investor case for action, investor commitment on social and labour issues and understanding opportunities for influence.

In 2020, PIRC launched the first employment-focused ESG newsletter which provides clients with new perspectives into employment issues affecting investors.

PIRC supports clients to foster collaboration between workers and investors, including forming and participating in coalitions to effect change on labour issues.