Anticipating and managing the controversies in invested companies is crucial to limiting the financial and reputational risk of your investments. But without the right tools, it can quickly become a time-consuming task for your teams. WeeFin helps simplify controversy management, from the creation of a controversy management policy to its practical implementation.
A rigorous and auditable controversy management process
Automatic alerts
Centralised analysis and decision-making process
Direct link to shareholder engagement functionality
Automatic alerts
WeeFin lets you set up alerts when controversy indicators exceed a certain threshold. This automated alerts saves you time and informs you instantly.
A customisable process to track all stages of decision-making following the emergence of controversies:
Qualitative analysis
teams can annotate and add their views to the controvery
Proposed framework
provide a framework for multiple parties to make a decision concerning the controversy
Committee Review
final decisions (divestment, shareholder engagement, ...) taken by a committee
Dissemination of the decision
the decision is centralised on the platform and disseminated across the impacted teams
Direct link to shareholder engagement feature
WeeFin can link the management of your controversies with our shareholder engagement tracking functionality, to ensure auditable monitoring of portfolio companies.
Strategic functionnality to help you achieve your sustainability objectives
Risk mitigation
reputational or financial risk is usually caused by any controversies in an invested company.
Time-saving
by automating alerts and centralisingcommunication between team members.
Compliance
which requires asset management companies to implement a controversy management policy.
WeeFin supports the review of the UK Governance Code to promote a more sustainable and transparent approach that is adapted to the current challenges of the financial sector.
The UK is moving towards a green taxonomy to steer investments into sustainable activities. At WeeFin, we've responded to this consultation, drawing on our expertise with the European taxonomy. Explore our responses in this blog and learn how this initiative could reshape sustainable finance in the UK.
