City Hive urges data platforms and providers to incorporate ACT signatory status

'Key' indicator for fund selectors

Valeria Martinez
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City Hive’s ACT Stewardship Council has urged data platforms to include ACT Signatory status in firm- and fund-level data, calling it a key tool for fund selectors to assess culture and behaviours.

The ACT Stewardship Council, a cross-industry body of fund selectors and investors acting on behalf of $2trn in clients' assets, has issued a letter to data platforms and providers to publish an investment house's signatory status and the year the firm became a signatory. The think-tank and advocacy group said these are both "key" indicators for analysts assessing its commitment to workplace culture and transparency. City Hive's Bev Shah: What firms are telling us about values and commitments ACT signatories pledge to disclose in a standardised way, offering a "high degree of openn...

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