Stockholm (NordSIP) – The PRI established a list of signatories that demonstrate “both a breadth of responsible investment excellence and that excel specifically in this year’s theme: selection, appointment and monitoring of external managers.” The PRI Leaders Group 2019 only includes asset owner signatories which use external managers and have listed equity or private equity in their externally managed assets.
“Our evaluation focused specifically on listed equity and private equity, as these are the asset classes where we have the most developed work on identifying good industry practice and are most able to support signatories,” the PRI explains.
The group of leading signatories is roughly equivalent to 10% of all asset owner signatories. Development finance institutions are the most starkly well-represented group: 60% of all DFI signatories for whom this year’s theme is applicable make it into the Leaders’ Group. State-controlled funds also do well, and insurance companies fare better than average. Non-corporate pension funds do nearly twice as well as corporate pension funds.
Eight Nordic asset owners made it onto the list, of which five are Swedish, one is Norwegian and two are Finnish.
(in alphabetical order)
AP1
AP2
AP6
Church of Sweden
Church Pension Fund (of Finland)
Storebrand ASA
Swedfund International AB
Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company
The rest of the list can be found here.
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