ACT Board Toolkit

Designed for boards and fiduciaries, the ACT Board Toolkit offers the practical tools and guidance needed to apply the ACT Framework in practice — enabling consistent, transparent assessment of culture and evidence of effective governance.

What’s inside:

  • Guidance notes – clear, step-by-step instructions on how to apply the ACT Framework within board processes and meetings.

  • Research and reference material – insight into how culture drives governance quality, drawn from City Hive’s industry analysis and stewardship work.

  • Supporting resources – links to ACT Framework documentation, signatory guidance, and further reading on culture, inclusion and stewardship.

USING ACT

  • Guidance for Investment Trust Boards

    Guidance

    Guidance for Investment Trust Boards on how to integrate ACT into your governance process.

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  • Accessing the Data

    Find out how to access ACT reporting.

    Learn more

  • Regulatory Mapping

    Read the Simmons & Simmons insights on how ACT questions map over FCA regulations including Consumer duty and SMRC.

    Read It
  • Signatory Firms

    ACT Signatory Firms

    The latest list of ACT Signatory firms

    View here
  • Governance of ACT

    Governance of ACT

    Explore who governs ACT.

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  • Door

    Access the data from Door

    Register to request and access the latest ACT reporting data from Door.

    View here

RESEARCH & INSIGHTS

  • Ethnicity Investment Gap Report

    Ethnicity Investment Gap

    Explore attitudes towards investments amongst women, minorities and other seldom heard groups. It is crucial to understand the barriers different groups face and then actively seek solutions to remove them.

    Read It
  • Gender Pension Gap

    Gender Pension Gap

    This white paper seeks to understand the key reasons for the current gender pension gap and what can be done about it.

    Read It
  • Financial Inclusion and Disability Report

    Financial Inclusion and Disability

    This report centres the voice of disabled people, to understand what actions the asset management industry can take to attract and enable sustained participation from disabled people in a position to save, by understanding more about their needs and motivations.

    Read It
  • City Hive Working Forwards Report

    Working Forwards Report

    How can firms consider and implement flexibility, agile working and leave policies and practice, as we navigate changing attitudes towards the workplace?

    Read it
  • ACT Insights

    ACT Insights

    Browse our insights, strengthening the investment management industry through research, reports, and commentary.

    Browse Here

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