Index Fund Stewardship

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Index Fund Stewardship

Date published:

19 Nov 2020

Merritt Fox

Columbia Law School

Lucian Bebchuk

Harvard Law School

Richard F Lacaille

Dorothy S. Lund

Columbia Law School

Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law School) presented his paper on Index Fund Stewardship at the "Rethinking Stewardship" conference that took place on 23/10/2020 online. The session was moderated by Merritt Fox (Columbia Law School) and the panelists included Richard F Lacaille (State Street Global Advisors), Dorothy S. Lund (USC Gould) and Bonnie Saynay (ISS ESG). For more information please see the following event page: /content/rethinking-stewardship#!event-programme

Reading material

Bebchuk, Lucian A. and Hirst, Scott, Index Funds and the Future of Corporate Governance: Theory, Evidence, and Policy (May 31, 2019). Columbia Law Review, Vol. 119, December 2019, pp. 2029-2146, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 433/2018, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 986, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3282794 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3282794.

Bebchuk, Lucian A. and Hirst, Scott, Index Funds and the Future of Corporate Governance: Presentation Slides (November 12, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3485678 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3485678.

Bebchuk, Lucian A. and Hirst, Scott, The Specter of the Giant Three (May 9, 2019). Boston University Law Review, Vol. 99, 2019, pp. 721-741, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 1004, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 608/2019, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3385501 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3385501.

Lund, Dorothy S., Passive Investing and Corporate Governance: A Law and Economics Analysis (June 9, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3623381 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3623381.

Lund, Dorothy S., The Case Against Passive Shareholder Voting (March 21, 2018). 43 Journal of Corporation Law 493 (2017) , University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 829, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992046 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2992046.