BlackRock Investment Stewardship

Promoting sound corporate governance and resilient business models

Engagement is core to our stewardship efforts. Our engagement priorities reflect the five themes on which we most frequently engage companies, where they are relevant and a source of material business risk or opportunity.

• Board quality and effectiveness

Our investment stewardship efforts have always started with the board and executive leadership. The performance of the board is critical to the long-term financial success of a company and the protection of shareholders’ economic interests.

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• Strategy, purpose, and financial resilience

We engage on long-term corporate strategy, purpose and financial resilience to understand how boards and management are aligning their business decision-making with the company’s purpose and adjusting strategy and/or capital allocation plans as necessary as business dynamics change.

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Financial resilience in a new economic regime

• Incentives aligned with financial value creation

Executive compensation is an important tool to drive long-term financial value creation by incentivizing and rewarding the successful delivery of strategy goals and financial outperformance against peers. In our view, it is important for companies to make clear in their disclosures the connection between compensation policies and outcomes and the financial interests of long-term shareholders.

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• Climate and natural capital

BIS engages with companies to better understand their approach to, and oversight of, material climate-related risks and opportunities as well as how they manage material natural capital impacts and dependencies, in the context of their business model and sector.

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Our Climate Focus Universe

2020: Our participation in Climate Action 100+

2024: BlackRock International participation in Climate Action 100+

• Company impacts on people

In our experience, companies that invest in the relationships that are critical to their ability to meet their strategic objectives are more likely to deliver durable, long-term financial performance. By contrast, poor relationships may create adverse impacts that could expose companies to legal, regulatory, operational, and reputational risks.

See more on human capital management

Read more on human rights

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BIS content library

We are committed to transparency in our investment stewardship activities. It is important to us that our clients understand how the work we do on their behalf aligns with their economic interests. Below is a library of our policies, reports, thought leadership pieces, and vote bulletins.

To request an engagement please submit a request through CorpAxe

For all other inquiries please contact the team at ContactStewardship@blackrock.com