Our beliefs

• We act as long-term stewards to generate attractive returns while considering the interests of all stakeholders.
• We integrate ESG factors throughout our investment process to achieve better risk adjusted returns. 
• We prefer inclusion over exclusion to more efficiently bring about change by working with companies. 
• We engage as active owner to drive the sustainability of a company.
• We allocate capital towards sustainable companies to achieve positive real world impact.

To put our mission and vision into practice we engage with our investee companies on a wide array of strategic, financial and ESG topics. As an active owner we use our influence to consistently encourage positive change. 

We organise our responsible investment activities across four pillars:

EU Sustainability Regulation

Acting on climate change, its related environmental consequences together with the desire to provide a strong social base for all, is increasingly becoming a priority. Against that background, the European Union (EU) in 2018 laid the foundations for its Action Plan ‘Financing Sustainable Growth’, underpinning Europe’s goal to become climate neutral by 2050. Important ambition areas of the EU are to ‘reorient capital flows towards sustainable investment, in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth’ and to mainstream sustainability into risk management (European Commission, 8 March 2018, Action Plan: Financing Sustainable Growth). To facilitate progress in these areas, the EU introduced a set of legislative initiatives, including i.a. the EU Taxonomy Regulation and the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation.

Here you can find more information on our (entity-level) disclosures required under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (“SFDR”). For fund-specific sustainability related disclosures, including the SFDR and Taxonomy Regulation, please visit our website. 

 Click here to read our SFDR entity level disclosure

Our engagements

We believe we increase our impact and stewardship when we directly engage with the companies and fund managers we invest in. We deliberately opt for dialogue with the companies we invest in and with external fund managers. This dialogue or ‘engagement’, allows us to encourage companies to improve policies and practices in which specific ESG issues have been identified. 

 Click here for our company engagement cases

READ OUR ANNUAL STEWARDSHIP AND RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT REPORT OF THE YEAR 2021: 

A wide range of issues facing the world – from digitalisation to diversity, climate change to coronavirus –have big implications for investors. Can they use their assets to help effect positive outcomes for people and planet as well as generating an attractive financial return? 

Read our Annual Stewardship and Sustainable Investment Report 2021

Our offering

Client Solutions

Our Fiduciary Management and Client Solutions team consider ESG issues through all parts of the manager selection and monitoring process. From initial shortlisting to due diligence and post-contract monitoring.

Investment strategies