Manager monitoring

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Asset owners who monitor investment managers on their responsible investment approach are adopting leading practice. Manager monitoring increases accountability and comparability for all participants.

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Module 1
Strategy, policy and strategic asset allocation
- Writing a policy
- Defining a strategy
- Developing an approach to strategic asset allocation
Module 2
Mandate requirements and RFPs
- Developing mandate ESG requirements
- Creating RFPs for manager search
Module 3
Manager selection
- Longlist of managers
- Shortlist of managers
- In-depth due diligence
Module 4
Manager appointment
- Embedding ESG requirements into legal documents
- Sample model contracts
Module 5
Manager monitoring
- Identifying minimum reporting disclosures
- Considering asset class-specific reporting

Foreword

Responsible investment should be at the core of the relationship between asset owners and investment managers. More and more clients want it, regulators demand it and academic and industry evidence supports it. This is the starting point that explains why our work on selection, appointment and monitoring (SAM) is so crucial. These guides are designed specifically for PRI’s 550+ asset owner signatories as well as the broader asset owner community. We hope they will support large and small asset owners and their advisers to incorporate ESG factors into how they relate to, co-operate with and challenge asset managers.

Fiona Reynolds, PRI

Technical guide

Asset owner guide: investment manager monitoring

ESG goals

How asset owners and their managers can work together on ESG goals

Following the release of our technical guides on selecting, appointing and monitoring investment managers, the PRI convened a number of panel discussions to talk through how asset owners can work collaboratively with investment managers throughout the selection, appointment and monitoring process.