By actively exercising investor voting rights and engaging in dialogue with companies in the investment portfolio, institutional investors such as insurers, pension funds and asset managers can make an important contribution to sustainability goals. Within the different sustainability approaches, stewardship (or active ownership) is considered as one of the most effective for that purpose alongside impact and thematic investing. Within alternative investments, stewardship, which includes both engagement and voting, may take place with external managers and/or directly with underlying companies. In both cases, stewardship plays an even greater role given the direct relationship investors have with external managers and/or their investees and the higher stakes investors may have in the respective underlying companies.

For this third Webinar of the Alternative Investment Committee Sustainable Finance Series, we would thrive to understand the role stewardship plays as a sustainable approach for alternative investments.