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  • 29 June 2022

    Spotlight on Capital Group: Opportunities to Embed Fundamental Labour Rights in Investment Stewardship

    Capital Group is the world’s 7th largest asset manager. The US-headquartered firm is an active investor which often ranks as a top 10 shareholder in the companies where it invests, including priority cases among CWC participating trade unions, such as Amazon and Wizz Air. The manager has a (...)

  • 27 September 2021

    Spotlight on UBS: Opportunities to Reinforce Fundamental Labour Rights in Investment Stewardship Practices

    UBS Asset Management (“UBS”) is the world’s 13th largest asset manager with USD 1.1 trillion in assets under management (AUM). Of this amount, institutional investors – including pension funds - account for 59% of their global client base.
    The CWC’s analysis finds that UBS’s stewardship framework (...)

  • 6 July 2021

    Spotlight on Macquarie: Opportunities to Embed Labour Rights in Investment Stewardship Practices

    With a USD 146 billion portfolio invested in infrastructure and real estate around the world, Macquarie is the world’s largest infrastructure asset manager. It has an employment footprint of more 130,000 across its portfolio.
    This report, which focuses on Macquarie’s real asset portfolio, (...)

  • 29 April 2021

    Comparison Table: SSGA and BlackRock

    Click below to download a PDF of the comparison table on State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) and BlackRock’s incorporation of fundamental labour rights in their stewardship frameworks.
    Full report on BlackRock available here.
    Full report on SSGA available (...)

  • 22 April 2021

    Spotlight on State Street Global Advisors: The Role of Fundamental Labour Rights in Investment Stewardship

    This report, part of the CWC Asset Manager Report Series, evaluates the strength of SSGAs stewardship framework, the impact of its stewardship practices on workers’ rights and its degree of alignment with the ILO Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and rights-based frameworks such as the (...)
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Documents

  • 1 October 2020

    Spotlight on BlackRock: The Role of Fundamental Labour Rights in Investment Stewardship

    This report, part of the CWC Asset Manager Report Series, evaluates the strength of BlackRock’s stewardship framework, the impact of its stewardship practices on workers’ rights and its degree of alignment with the ILO Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and rights-based frameworks such as (...)

  • 1 October 2018

    Pension Fund Cost Transparency: A How-to Guide for Unions

    This report seeks to empower trade unions and pension trustees around the world to seek better transparency on the fees paid when the retirement savings of workers are invested.
    Click here to read the report

  • 1 May 2017

    CWC Guidelines for the Evaluation of Workers’ Human Rights and Labour Standards

    The Committee on Workers’ Capital (CWC) Guidelines for the Evaluation of Workers’ Human Rights and Labour Standards are a comprehensive set of key performance indicators (KPIs) for investors to evaluate companies’ social performance.
    The Guidelines were developed in response to concerns that (...)

  • 20 December 2013

    CWC Investor Brief: Climate Change Risks and Opportunities for Investors

    This 2013 CWC brief outlines risks and opportunities for pension funds in climate-related investments, trustee action items and resources.

  • 19 December 2013

    CWC Investor Brief: The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

    The CWC Investor Brief on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises was published in 2013.
    This Investor Brief provides basic information about the Guidelines, key expectations and responsibilities of institutional investors, information for trade unions and their pension funds and key (...)
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