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DWS: voting policy and stewardship reports

DWS’s published proxy voting policy, edition by edition, and its annual stewardship reports, its own account of how it voted and engaged. How it actually voted is on its N‑PX voting record.

Voting policy

The firm’s own guidelines for how it votes, by the year of the edition held in the policy library.

2026	DWS voting policy, 2026 PDF

Stewardship reports

The manager’s annual account of its stewardship, by the reporting year it covers. Self-reported: the figures in it are not audited.

2025	DWS Stewardship Report Firm-wide report published by DWS Investment GmbH · PDF, 10.7 MB · download.dws.com
2024	Stewardship report UK Stewardship Code filing (FRC), filed by DWS Investments UK Limited · PDF, 11.6 MB · frc.org.uk
2023	Stewardship report UK Stewardship Code filing (FRC), filed by DWS Investments UK Limited · PDF, 2.6 MB · archived copy, captured August 26, 2025 (originally on media.frc.org.uk)
2022	Stewardship report UK Stewardship Code filing (FRC), filed by DWS Investments UK Limited · PDF, 10.4 MB · archived copy, captured January 9, 2025 (originally on media.frc.org.uk)
2021	Stewardship report UK Stewardship Code filing (FRC), filed by DWS Investments UK Limited · PDF, 1.9 MB · archived copy, captured December 27, 2023 (originally on media.frc.org.uk)