The paper presents the findings from a six month Investor Forum programme to identify and promote Best Practice Dialogues between corporates and investors.

The Investor Forum is pleased to publish a toolkit to assist investors in their due diligence to understand the efforts taken by their investee companies to address Modern Slavery.

Working with LBS Centre for Corporate Governance, the Investor Forum brought together academics with practitioners to address the issue of taking greater account of stakeholder concerns and creating a sustainable shareholder value model to guide legitimate investor action.

A practical guide to best practice in the evolution of governance at smaller and mid-sized companies on public markets.

A practical toolkit to help pension schemes identify best-in-class stewardship and engagement capabilities at asset managers.

Clear definitions of the different forms of engagement activity, including collective engagement, and key success factors for each category of engagement.

Setting out the key characteristics of good stewardship and the desired outcomes of effective engagement.

Analysis of the blockages to engagement between investors and companies.