Engagement Service

Specialized services

The advantages of this specialized Robeco Engagement Service are:

• A specialized professional party handles tasks relating to socially involved shareholder participation
• Maximum investment freedom
• Responds to regulations in the field of corporate governance
• Quarterly reports on engagement activities

Overview reports and services

Clients of Robeco Engagement Service will receive the following quarterly reports and services:

• A confidential institutional report on engagement services.
• A public report, including voting, which can be integrally put on the client’s website.
• Full details on voting activity, a.o. Tabaksblat compliant and suitable for website.
• Comprehensive summary of most important voting issues such as votes against management and shareholder proposals.
• A key contact will be assigned to service the client.

Exclusion

If engagement fails to bring about the desired change, investors can choose for more severe and definite measures, e.g. exclusion. Exclusion is not uncommon if companies keep refusing to improve their behaviour. Often, however, engagement really makes a difference and changes the behaviour of companies towards being more responsible.

Robeco will have a general exclusion policy that has become effective in 2010.