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Private investor homepageOur clients have entrusted us to generate the highest possible return with the lowest possible risk. At Nordea Asset Management (NAM) we strive to do this by managing and investing their assets in a responsible way. We believe that responsible investment can help create long-term value for our clients.
Our commitment to be a responsible asset manager is deeply rooted in our corporate culture and business model. Our mission to deliver returns with responsibility begins by being an active shareowner. Active ownership is about exercising our formal rights as a shareholder and our informal influence to encourage companies to improve their management systems, their ESG performance or their reporting. The goal is to encourage companies to improve the management of risks in order to protect shareholder value and enhance long-term returns. More specifically, we demonstrate stewardship and active ownership through our representation on nomination committees, through voting on shareholder resolutions and through our engagement activities.
We recognize that integrating ESG issues forms part of our fiduciary duty to clients and beneficiaries and want to see their portfolios managed in a way that systematically assesses drivers of risk and return over the long term. To that end, we deploy a broad range of ESG approaches (e.g. positive screening, norms-based screening and, as a last resort, exclusion). Additionally, we have developed a specific range of positively screened ESG products where only ESG best in class companies are eligible investments.
Socially responsible thinking is inherent in the Nordic mentality and so it is not surprising that the Scandinavian countries are global leaders in numerous related aspects. In 2001, Nordea signed the UNEP FI (United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative). A year later we signed the UNGC (UN Global Compact).
Nordea has been an early adopter in socially responsible investing. On 11 January 2007, we became one of the first signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI), thereby incorporating environmental, social and corporate governance issues into our investment decision-making processes. That same year, we signed the Equator Principles.
More recently, Nordea signed the Montreal Carbon Pledge, launched on 25 September 2014. We also signed the Paris Pledge, which was launched at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in December 2015, in which NAM participated.
Nordea maintains memberships in various international and European forums. For a complete list, see our Commitments and Policies.
