"exercise stewardship" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb phrase to refer to taking responsibility to manage something properly. For example, "The board of directors is responsible for exercising stewardship over the company's finances."
Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate conceded that MPs had fastened on "hard truths" in a parliamentary report into the phone-hacking scandal that also concluded he was "not a fit person" to exercise stewardship of a major international company.
On the one hand, we need the trustees of big pension funds to understand that their fiduciary duty, far from stopping them to exercise stewardship, actually requires them to do so.
This would require asset managers to exercise stewardship over the companies in which they invest and force a longer-term ownership perspective, including, incidentally, responsibility over executive pay.Good governance is not about ticking boxes.
11.30am: Rupert Murdoch is "not a fit person" to exercise stewardship of a major international company, a committee of MPs concluded this morning in a report highly critical of the mogul's and his son's role in the News of the World phone-hacking affair.
Stewardship Code: Furthermore, 2018 will see the first reports from Danish investors on compliance with the new Danish stewardship code, which covers seven recommendations aimed at promoting Danish companies' long-term value creation and increasing transparency as to how individual Danish institutional investors choose to exercise stewardship activities.
"Since the Ebola outbreak, the WHO has come under heavy criticism for its inability to... exercise stewardship during health emergencies.
The bishops also discuss the need to protect the environment as a means of exercising stewardship of God's creation.
"The institutions … are also very keen to be seen to be exercising stewardship and that I completely respect," said Agius.
By exercising stewardship responsibilities effectively, investors are well placed to ensure companies adopt a long-term approach.
"This year the institutions are very keen to be seen to be exercising stewardship more closely than they have in the past," he said.
These approaches frame innovative ways of exercising stewardship over the entire health sector, tapping into the resources of private and informal health sectors to achieve public health goals.
