Kempen Sustainable Investment: Our Engagements

Through our engagements, we seek to encourage positive change at companies. We engage on a broad range of strategic, financial, corporate governance, environmental and social aspects in order to: 

• Be informed about corporate strategy, policies and programmes and increase our understanding of a company;
• Ensure that companies’ boards and management teams have proper oversight and management of ESG risks, and that companies sufficiently embrace environmental and social opportunities; and
• Encourage companies to adopt corporate governance best practices.

We differentiate between:

• Engagement for awareness: Aim to raise awareness about a certain issue among our investee companies or to get more information on a particular company.
• Engagement for change: Have concrete objectives with specific timelines set in advance specifying what we would like to achieve. Progress of these engagements is measured via milestones achieved.
• Public policy and collaborative engagements: Aim to improve the overall landscape of (financial) markets and general level of ESG performance in particular sectors, markets and geographies.

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