System-level investing is pushing stewardship beyond company-level engagement towards safeguarding the health of the economic systems on which all portfolio returns ultimately depend.

Climate litigation is moving upstream into corporate strategy, raising the prospect that courts could directly constrain future fossil fuel investment and redefine board accountability for capital allocation decisions.

An early snapshot of how investors are responding to the 2026 UK Stewardship Code is beginning to emerge just as another proxy season gets under way.

The US Department of Labor has quietly opened a new front in the long‑running campaign against proxy advice and stewardship.

On 31 March 2026, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) published a proposed rule that quietly but decisively rewrites the language of fiduciary duty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).