Minerva Press & Awards

Keep up to date with the latest developments from Minerva. Here you'll find our press releases, company announcements, industry awards, and media coverage, highlighting the work we do to support investors with stewardship, proxy voting, corporate governance, and responsible investment services.

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Awards

Shortlisted: Personality of the Year – Sarah Wilson, CEO

Pensions Age Awards

February 1, 2023
Sarah Wilson, CEO, was recognised as a finalist for Personality of the Year, highlighting her leadership and contribution to advancing stewardship and responsible investment.
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Shortlisted: Technology Innovation Award

Pensions Age Awards

February 1, 2023
Minerva was recognised as a finalist for the Technology Innovation Award, recognising its commitment to advancing stewardship through innovative technology solutions.
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Finalist: Best ESG Fintech Platform

ESG Investing Awards

January 1, 2023
Minerva was recognised as a finalist in the Best ESG Fintech Platform category, highlighting its technology-driven approach to stewardship and proxy voting.
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Finalist: Best ESG & Sustainability Analytics Platform

ESG Investing Awards

January 1, 2023
Minerva was recognised for being a leading provider of data, insights and analytical tools that help investors assess, monitor and integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) and sustainability factors into investment decision-making.
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Winner: Best ESG Fintech

ESG Investing Awards

January 1, 2022
Minerva won the Best ESG Fintech award, recognising its innovative technology supporting stewardship, proxy voting and shareholder engagement.
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Runner-up: ESG Data Provider of the Year

Pensions Expert

September 1, 2021
Minerva was named runner-up for ESG Data Provider of the Year, recognising the strength of its stewardship, governance and ESG intelligence solutions.
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Winner: Best Sustainable & ESG Investment Initiative

Investment Week Sustainable & ESG Investment Awards

September 1, 2021
Minerva won the Best Sustainable & ESG Investment Initiative award, recognising its leadership in advancing responsible investment and stewardship outcomes.
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Winner: ESG Initiative of the Year

Environmental Finance Sustainable Investment Awards

June 1, 2021
Minerva won the ESG Initiative of the Year award, recognising its leadership in delivering impactful stewardship and responsible investment solutions.
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Press releases

LPFA and Minerva partner on improved equity investment visibility

February 1, 2026
London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) has updated its equities dashboard through a new partnership with Minerva Analytics, enhancing their commitment to transparency and accountability on where the LPFA Pension Fund is invested.
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Minerva Analytics Files Texas Public Information Act Request as State Escalates Campaign Against Proxy Advisors

September 18, 2025
Minerva Analytics has filed a Texas Public Information Act (TPIA) request (Freedom of Information request) with the Texas Attorney General following a series of escalating legal moves surrounding SB 2337, a Texas law aimed at restricting proxy advisory services and investor choice on a worldwide basis.
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Corporance forms a strategic partnership with Minerva as an Exclusive ESG Data Partner

February 13, 2025
In an exciting development, Corporance Asesores de Voto (CORPORANCE), the Spanish proxy advisor, and Minerva Analytics (MINERVA), renowned for their independent research, have partnered up.
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Investors create tool to assess company pay policies with Minerva Analytics data

September 12, 2024
A group of UK pension funds have collaborated with the High Pay Centre to develop a free-to-access online tool that helps investors assess companies’ annual corporate pay policies with the help of data from Minerva Analytics.
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UK’s LPFA Appoints Minerva to Monitor Climate Voting

September 10, 2024
The London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA), an £8 billion (US$10.44 billion) local government pension scheme fund, has asked stewardship solutions firm Minerva Analytics to provide additional insight into climate-related fund manager voting and rationale.
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LPFA appoints Minerva as vote monitoring service partner

September 6, 2024
The London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA), a £8 billion Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) fund with around 100,000 members, has appointed Minerva Analytics to provide additional insight into fund manager use of share voting rights and the rationale behind voting decisions.
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Minerva acquired by Solactive

January 11, 2023
Amid a global push towards trustworthy and granular ESG data, rigorous reporting and engagement on sustainability issues by investors, Minerva is pleased to announce its acquisition by German index provider Solactive. The move follows Solactive’s minority investment in Minerva in May 2019.
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Inrate and Minerva Analytics partner to address Swiss stewardship

January 10, 2023
Minerva Analytics, the UK stewardship support services and ESG research provider, and Inrate, the independent Swiss sustainability research, rating and proxy voting firm, have entered into a strategic partnership to provide integrated global proxy voting agency services to Swiss investors.
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Minerva in the media

FTSE bosses receive 18% pay bump this year in global fight for talent

Financial Times

July 30, 2026
Croda International has also reduced the sustainability metrics, according to a separate analysis of public annual reports by proxy adviser Minerva Analytics. Thomas Bolger, senior stewardship analyst at Minerva, said the ESG debate had shifted “away from a previous focus of simply whether ESG metrics are included at all in incentive pay, and towards whether those metrics are sufficiently material, verifiable, measurable and credibly aligned with strategy and long-term value creation”.
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BP ballot row: a test for UK shareholder democracy?

IPE

July 30, 2026
Sarah Wilson, chief executive officer of British proxy adviser Minerva Analytics, has said that the absence of any explanation is at the heart of the issue and argues that BP has created a problem of its own making. They should have just been transparent. What is the problem with explaining?” she said. “They have just shot themselves in the foot. The automatic putting up of the shutters is going to make more of an issue, not less,” Wilson added. For her, the lack of explanation is not in keeping with the spirit of the UK Corporate Governance Code and particularly its ‘comply or explain’ principle.
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How the FTSE grew comfortable with bumper pay for bosses

Financial Times

July 30, 2026
Sarah Wilson of shareholder advisory firm Minerva told the FT: “‘Attract, recruit and retain’ are the three words that seem to mean ‘we’d rather not explain.’ It’s not a rationale - it’s a ratchet. The only thing being retained is the upward trajectory of pay.” Recent analysis by Minerva also shows that average shareholder support for remuneration has generally increased in recent years and policy votes usually pass, although three pay reports were voted down by shareholders in 2025: Melrose Industries, Plus 500 and Spirent Communications.
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Your Vote, Their Permission Why US Shareholder Proposal Rights Are Structurally Fragile, and What the Rest of the World Does Differently

SSRN

July 30, 2026
The author is the founder and Chief Executive of Minerva Analytics, an independent proxy advisory and stewardship research firm established in 1995. Minerva provides proxy voting research and recommendations to institutional investors across over 70 markets worldwide.
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Trump executive order targets proxy advisers in ‘once-in-a-generation governance recalibration’

Responsible Investor

July 30, 2026
Sarah Wilson, CEO of Minerva Analytics, said that “An attack on independent advice is an attack on investor voice. While Minerva competes vigorously with ISS and Glass Lewis, we share a common principle: investors must remain free to set their own policies and access independent research. Restricting that choice undermines stewardship sovereignty and ignores the risks to fiduciary duty, market integrity, and ultimately the retirement security of millions.”
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UK government and business call on investors to review defence exclusions

Responsible Investor

July 30, 2026
In related news, a paper from UK-based proxy and stewardship provider Minerva Analytics published this week noted that there are “very few regulatory red lines” that explicitly restrict defence investments, outside of those banned by international law.
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Assault on proxy advisers is an attack on the rights of asset owners

Financial Times

July 30, 2026
Pressure seeks to censor independent analysis and neuter shareholder oversight The writer is chief executive of Minerva Analytics, a shareholder advisory firm The proxy advisory firms are accused of cartel-like behaviour and ideological over-reach in their corporate governance advice with critics treating the fiduciaries who manage money with disdain, painting them as manipulated victims.
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