Stewardship

Dan Puchniak (National University of Singapore) presented his paper on 'The False Hope of Stewardship in the Context of Controlling Shareholders: Making Sense Out of the Global Transplant of a Legal Misfit' and Dionysia Katelouzou (Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London) presented her paper on 'Hedge Fund Activism and Shareholder Stewardship: An Automated Content Analysis of the Rhetoric of Stewardship' at the "Rethinking Stewardship" conference that took place on 23/10/2020 online.

Jeffrey Gordon (Colombia Law School) presented his paper on Systematic Stewardship at the "Rethinking Stewardship" conference that took place on 23/10/2020 online.

Prof. Julian Franks (London Business School) presents his paper on "Corporate governance through voice and exit" at the "Corporate Governance And Ownership With Diverse Shareholders" conference at IESE Business School, Barcelona. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Krishna Palepu (Harvard Business School). The full paper and slides from this presentation can be downloaded here: ecgi.global/content/corporate-governance-and-ownership-diverse-shareholders#!event-programme

Moderator: Paul Davies (University of Oxford and ECGI)

Prof. Christoph Van der Elst (Gent University, Tilburg University), Mr. David Frick (Nestlé S.A.), Mr. Toshitake Inoue (Corporate Accounting and Disclosure Division Planning and Markets Bureau Financial Services Agency, Government of Japan), Prof. Konstantinos Sergakis (University of Glasgow), Mr. Andy Jones (Hermes Investment Management) and Prof. Marco Becht (Université libre de Bruxelles, ECGI) discuss the future of stewardship at the "Global Shareholder Stewardship Conference" in King’s College London. More information from this conference can be found here: https://ecgi.global/content/global-shareholder-stewardship-conference

Moderator: Kornelia Fabisik (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

Mr. Chris Hodge (Global Stewardship Code Network), Prof. Dan Puchniak (National University of Singapore), Mr. Andy Jones (Hermes Investment Management), Mr. Guy Jubb (ECGI), Dr. Eva Micheler (London School of Economics) and Dr Dionysia Katelouzou (Kings College London), discuss the practice of stewardship, at the "Global Shareholder Stewardship Conference" in King’s College London. More information from this conference can be found here: https://ecgi.global/content/global-shareholder-stewardship-conference

Investor Stewardship in an Uncertain World Welcome: Marco Becht (Université libre de Bruxelles and ECGI)

Dr Tom Gosling interviews Julian Franks, Professor of Finance at London Business School,  ECGI Fellow and co-author of the paper and study