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Over the past several years,
the Sustainability & Impact
team at Rockefeller & Co. has
implemented active stewardship
with the financial services sector.
On behalf of our clients, we have
engaged with boards of directors
and senior management, focusing
on the following issues:
¢ Implementing strategy on
long-term financial stability
¢ Improving transparency over
business standards, values
and culture
¢ Establishing sound risk
management systems and
processes
e Compensation and incentive
programs tied to long-term
performance
¢ Implementing new employee
engagement and trainings
e Sustainable finance and
climate related investments
e Financial inclusion
and access to underserved
populations
As engaged investors, we believe
we have made significant progress
in many of these areas. We
worked together with some of
the largest banks in the United
States in seeking to improve
their disclosures over business
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standards and encouraged
them to embrace ESG in their
operations and investments. We
continue to monitor their progress
through regular meetings and
communications.
Despite making significant
progress in the areas of governing
business risk and regulatory
compliance, many financia
companies continue to be involved
in irresponsible business practices.
uch behavior can potentially
urt long-term shareholder value
and damage their corporate
reputation. This is where we
elieve our active stewardship and
constructive shareholder voice can
have the most positive impact.
ROCKEFELLER & CO. HISTORY OF CO-FILING SHAREHOLDER RESOLUTIONS
IN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR AFTER 2008:
2013
2012
Wells Fargo, Payday Lending
Morgan Stanley, Transparency in the
Wells Fargo, Report on Business Standards
J.P. Morgan Chase, Proxy Voting
Bank of America, Separation of Chair &
CEO
J.P. Morgan Chase, Report on Business
Standards
Bank of America, Report on Business
Standards
Wells Fargo, Report on Business Standards
Repurchase Markets
2012 Bank of America, Internal Controls Related
to Mortgage Loan
State Street, Separate Chair & CEO
Morgan Stanley, Restore Confidence in the
Financial System
2011
2011
Network on Climate Risk (INCR)
to engage with companies on
sustainability across various
sectors.
through active stewardship and
engagements. We believe that
institutional investors should
be more proactive than ever
as stewards of companies and
capital markets, and raise their
voice in seeking to ensure good
governance, accountability and
responsible growth.
Our engagements with the
Financial services sector are
supported by our long-term
collaborative work with the
nterfaith Center on Corporate
Responsibility (ICCR). We also
utilize other investor networks
such as the UN-backed Principles
For Responsible Investment
PRI) and the CERES/Investor
Finally, the outlook for possible
increased deregulation under
the new administration could
potentially undermine the
gains achieved by shareholders
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