Stewardship and engagement at Chronos
Chronos is a global leader in helping investors find strategic value in stewardship.
We run engagement programmes for individual investors and collaborative engagements for investors and multi-stakeholder groups. We help investment organisations clarify stewardship objectives, build capacity, and deliver stewardship reporting in line with best practice standards like the UK Stewardship Code.
Why Chronos?
Every organisation has its own story. We take time to understand your core values and unique market position. We ask the questions you may not, challenging assumptions to spark fresh thinking, empower your stewardship team and deliver outcomes that serve your strategic goals.
We bring specialist knowledge honed by 20+ years of capital market experience, new insights from our wide network of policymakers and practitioners, and a track record driving high-profile stewardship initiatives such as Climate Action 100+, Transition Pathway Initiative and Mining 2030.
Our aim is to leave clients better able to deliver sustainability performance, than when we start working with you.
Case studies
Our stewardship and engagement services
PLAN
We work with individual clients and groups to design engagement programs tailored to your organisation. Our process ensures stewardship plans are built based on organisational goals, fiduciary duty and business strategies. We help investors to select the right tools to achieve their stewardship goals - from letter writing to voting and benchmarking - and to put clear milestones and escalation strategies in place should a company not respond positively.
IMPLEMENT
We run and support major engagements either assisting in-house teams (e.g. Brunel physical climate risk engagement), or driving stewardship as Secretariat to a wider initiative (e.g. BBFAW, Mining 2030). We help ensure engagements progress, keeping key objectives in mind and with knowledge shared across organisations to maximise value creation.
REPORT
We help investors to produce stewardship reports that both focus on the value their engagement activities create, and which align with national frameworks including the latest UK Stewardship Code. We help clients to go beyond box-ticking by help them measure the value of their stewardship activities including setting clear objectives and building capacity for impact and future reporting.
REVIEW
We help leaders to compare their approach against industry peers, as well as legislative and voluntary standards, to identify gaps and understand best practices. We use our knowledge and networks to offer routes to continuous improvement. We encourage fixed reviews, such as a bi-annual stocktake, to be built into engagement programs to ensure targets remain meaningful and the plan is flexible enough to adapt as times change.
