Principal Sponsors
CLSA
CLSA is Asia’s leading capital markets and investment group, providing global investors with insights, liquidity and capital to drive their investment strategies.
Award-winning research, an extensive Asia footprint, direct links to China and highly experienced finance professionals differentiate CLSA’s innovative products and services in alternative investments, asset management, corporate finance, capital and debt markets, securities and wealth management.
As the international platform of CITIC Securities, China’s leading investment bank, CLSA is uniquely positioned to facilitate cross-border capital flows and connect China with the world and the world to China.
Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Hong Kong, CLSA operates from 13 countries across Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. For further information, please visit www.clsa.com.
Fidelity International
Fidelity International provides world class investment solutions and retirement expertise to institutions, individuals and their advisors—to help our clients build better futures for themselves and generations to come. As a family and management-owned company, we think generationally and invest for the long term. Helping clients to save for retirement and other long-term investing objectives has been at the core of our business for over 50 years.
We believe that investing in companies with high standards of corporate responsibility can enhance and protect investment returns for our clients. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues form an integral part of our investment decision-making process. Our rigorous research approach and the use of our forward-looking proprietary ratings system ensure we gain a deep understanding of ESG issues at a company level before they escalate and potentially threaten the value of our clients’ investments.
As stewards, we play an important role in improving the governance of companies in which we invest. We engage directly with companies to promote good governance and sustainable corporate practices, including having robust climate governance in place. We also aim to drive behavioural change by voting against companies that do not meet our corporate governance requirements, when necessary.
Supporting Sponsor
EY
EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society, and to build trust in the capital markets.
Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.
Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
EY refers to the global organisation, and may refer to one or more of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients. Information about how EY collects and uses personal data and a description of the rights individuals have under data protection legislation are available via ey.com/privacy. EY member firms do not practice law where prohibited by local laws. For more information about our organization, please visit ey.com.
Workshop Sponsors
Capital Group
Capital Group is one of the oldest and largest asset management companies in the world, managing multi-asset, equity and fixed income investment strategies for different types of investors.
Since 1931, Capital Group has been singularly focussed on delivering superior, consistent results for long-term investors using high-conviction portfolios, rigorous research and individual accountability. We build our investment strategies with durability in mind, backed by our experience in varying market conditions. Fundamental proprietary research provided by our global network of experienced investment analysts forms the backbone of our approach. Capital Group has an integrated global research network of more than 450 investment professionals, and its portfolio managers have an average of 27 years of investment experience.
Today, Capital Group works with financial intermediaries and institutions to manage more than US$2.4 trillion1 in long-term assets for investors around the world.
1All data as at 30 June 2023 and attributed to Capital Group, unless otherwise stated.
Norges Bank Investment Management
Norges Bank Investment Management runs the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, which has assets of more than NOK15 trillion (US$1.4 trillion). The fund is invested in international equity and fixed-income markets and in real estate and renewable energy infrastructure. It is one of the largest single owners in the world’s stock markets, holding almost 1.5% of all shares in the world’s listed companies, with holdings in around 9,000 entities.
The aim of the fund is to ensure responsible and long-term management of revenue from Norway’s oil and gas resources so that this wealth benefits both current and future generations. The objective is to generate the highest possible return on the fund in a safe, efficient, responsible and transparent manner, and within government guidelines.
CLP Holdings
The CLP Group is one of the largest investor-owned power businesses in Asia Pacific with investments across Hong Kong, Mainland China, Australia, India, Southeast Asia and Taiwan. Hong Kong-listed CLP Holdings Limited is the holding company for the CLP Group, which has a diversified portfolio of generating assets that uses a wide range of fuels including coal, gas, nuclear and renewable sources.
Through CLP Power Hong Kong Limited, the Group operates a vertically integrated electricity supply business that provides a highly reliable supply of electricity to 80% of Hong Kong’s population. The CLP Group is the largest external investor in the energy sector in Mainland China, with a focus on low-carbon energy. The Group’s wholly-owned subsidiary EnergyAustralia is a leading integrated energy company in Australia, providing gas and electricity to about 2.45 million households and businesses. Apraava Energy, in which CLP has a 50% interest, is one of India’s biggest renewable energy producers with operations in power generation and transmission.
CLP Holdings is included in the Global Dow – a 150-stock index of the world’s leading blue-chip companies, the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index (DJSI Asia Pacific), the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific 40 Index (DJSI Asia Pacific 40), the Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Index Series and the FTSE4Good Index series.
Supporting Organisation
Institutional Investor Advisory Services (IiAS)
Institutional Investor Advisory Services (IiAS) is an advisory firm dedicated to providing participants in the Indian market with independent opinions, research and data on corporate governance issues as well as voting recommendations on shareholder resolutions for over 1000 companies that account for over 96% of market capitalisation.
IiAS provides bespoke research and assists institutions in their engagement with company managements and their boards. It runs two cloud-based platforms: SMART, to help investors with reporting on their stewardship activities; and ADRIAN, a repository of resolutions and institutional voting patterns.
IiAS, together with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange), has developed a corporate governance scorecard for India (CG Scorecard) to evaluate governance practices and market benchmarks. More recently, IiAS has extended its analysis to ESG. IiAS is now a signatory to United Nations supported Principles of Responsible Investment, is empanelled with the Association of Mutual Funds in India as an ESG rating provider and provides Second Party Opinions on green bond issuances.
IiAS has equity participation by Aditya Birla Sunlife AMC, Axis Bank, Fitch Group, HDFC Investments, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, Kotak Mahindra Bank, RBL Bank, Tata Investment, UTI Asset Management and Yes Bank.
IiAS is a SEBI registered entity (proxy advisor registration number: INH000000024).
