KCGS 한국ESG기준원

As a steward managing and taking care of the assets entrusted by clients, institutional investors are obliged to put in their best efforts to maximize the benefit of the clients. The proactive exercise of voting rights is the most fundamental right and duty expected of institutional investors, who should cast votes in the best interests of their clients. As most of the general meetings in Korea are clustered around a short period of time, however, institutional investors have difficulties analyzing the agenda of all investee companies in a faithful manner.

Moreover, it is hard for individual institutional investors to bear all the expenses required to set up the infrastructure necessary for exercising voting rights. They also need to effectively manage potential conflicts of interest they may encounter in transactional relationships. This is why they need help from an independent expert agency. As an independent expert group, KCGS provides comprehensive proxy advisory service from providing guidance on the standards for exercising voting rights to analyzing individual agenda items of the general meeting so that institutional investors can exercise shareholder voting rights without challenges.