Ashmore Group PLC – Lobbying Governance & Transparency

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Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
None	Ashmore Group PLC’s disclosures focus extensively on its responsible investing and ESG governance, describing how "the Group aims to integrate responsible investing across its operations, coordinated by the Head of Responsible Investment and ESG Policy" and how accountability is "ensured through the Group’s specialised ESG Committee (ESGC), which has overall responsibility for Ashmore’s sustainability and responsible investing framework". The company details that "the Ashmore ESG Policy is reviewed and updated annually and signed off by the Ashmore Group ESG Committee" and that the Board "delegates day to day responsibility to the ESG Committee". While this indicates robust governance of its investment-related and climate-risk management processes, we found no evidence of any policies, oversight structures, or monitoring procedures specifically governing Ashmore’s lobbying activities, nor any reference to direct or indirect climate lobbying alignment—suggesting that the company does not disclose a lobbying governance process. View Sources	E

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Ashmore Group PLC’s disclosures focus extensively on its responsible investing and ESG governance, describing how "the Group aims to integrate responsible investing across its operations, coordinated by the Head of Responsible Investment and ESG Policy" and how accountability is "ensured through the Group’s specialised ESG Committee (ESGC), which has overall responsibility for Ashmore’s sustainability and responsible investing framework". The company details that "the Ashmore ESG Policy is reviewed and updated annually and signed off by the Ashmore Group ESG Committee" and that the Board "delegates day to day responsibility to the ESG Committee". While this indicates robust governance of its investment-related and climate-risk management processes, we found no evidence of any policies, oversight structures, or monitoring procedures specifically governing Ashmore’s lobbying activities, nor any reference to direct or indirect climate lobbying alignment—suggesting that the company does not disclose a lobbying governance process.

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Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Limited	Ashmore Group offers only limited visibility into its climate-related lobbying. It does reference identifiable policy frameworks – for example, it says it "supports the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)" and points to the UK FCA’s listing-rule requirements, and it calls on petrochemical companies to back an international Global Plastics Treaty – but it does not spell out any concrete instances where it sought to influence specific pieces of legislation or regulation. On process, the firm notes that "Ashmore portfolio managers engage directly with issuers" and, on occasion, with government officials, yet it does not describe the methods used (letters, consultations, formal submissions) nor name the public bodies or jurisdictions that were approached. The outcomes it pursues are framed in broad terms such as encouraging companies to publish greenhouse-gas data, set reduction targets, or transition to “a safe and circular plastics economy,” without detailing the precise regulatory changes or legally binding targets it wants enacted. Taken together, the disclosures acknowledge some engagement with climate policy but leave significant gaps around which policies are lobbied, how lobbying is conducted, and the specific results the company is trying to achieve.	D