Active Stewardship in Financial Services

While the financial markets have moved well beyond the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, the public trust of a very large sector of the global economy is still severely marred due to continued bad behavior, lack of corporate transparency, accountability and proper risk management, as well as risky business practices. To overcome these shortcomings, the global investment community took on the role of “active stewardship” in capital markets. And when the outlook for possible deregulation under the new administration could potentially undermine the gains of active stewardship, it becomes even more important for institutional investors to be more proactive than ever as stewards of companies and capital markets.