The Path to Enlightened Investor Stewardship

Author: Dionysia Katelouzou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009279468
Published In: August 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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The Path to Enlightened Investor Stewardship begins from a transformative premise: that institutional investors, as custodians of capital, bear enduring responsibilities not only to their proximate clients and beneficiaries, but also to end-investors and to the financial, social, and ecological systems in which they operate. Yet stewardship remains a contested and fragmented field of norms, practices, and expectations.

Focusing on the UK as a paradigmatic site, this book traces the historical, conceptual, and regulatory evolution of stewardship from its shareholder-centric roots to an expansive, system-aware model. Drawing on original analysis of stewardship disclosures and activist interventions, and informed by interdisciplinary insights, it develops a typology of investor stewardship-multi-level, multi-actor, multi-asset, multi-mean, and multi-aim. At its heart is the model of enlightened investor stewardship: a relational and purposive practice that charts a path from fragmented duties to coherent accountability, and from procedural compliance to transformative responsibility.

1. Why Stewardship, why now? The stakes, the puzzle, and the path forward

2. Ownership, control and shareholder governance: theoretical roots and institutional shifts

3. Institutional shareholder activism: evolving actors, strategies and influence

4. The anatomy of investor Stewardship

5. Regulating Stewardship: the UK Stewardship code and the expansion of normative ambitions

6. Empirical insights into UK Stewardship reporting: a textual and computational analysis

7. The varieties of investor Stewardship: a typology and framework for reform

8. The third-generation UK Stewardship code: towards enlightened investor Stewardship