Sustainability | ~ 4 min read
Three takeaways from our new Sustainable Investing Report

This week we published our Sustainable Investing and Stewardship Report 2024. From launching new impact products to engaging with more investee companies than ever before, the report charts a year of progress that also marked 25 years of sustainable investing at Allianz Global Investors.
It’s been a year of significant uncertainty in financial markets and beyond, driven by geopolitics, technology advancements and the ongoing implications of climate change. Through this uncertainty, developments in sustainable and impact investing accelerated in 2024. Our report outlines how we’ve evolved our capabilities across three strategic areas, based on our conviction in a long-term approach to investing sustainably:
- Sustainable investing: we demonstrated our conviction through our products and solutions. In 2024, we increased the number of sustainable funds we offer to 211, equivalent to 64% of our mutual fund assets under management. 1
- Active stewardship: we invested more time and resources to increase our stewardship activities. As a result, our engagement activity expanded geographically and thematically, while we also strengthened our proxy voting policy. Continuing to be vocal on issues such as biodiversity risks and climate led to positive outcomes with several global corporations.
- Impact investing: we were a first mover with new products and enhancements to our impact offering. Our newly launched Impact Private Credit strategy attracted EUR 560 million at first closing – ahead of target and leading AllianzGI to become one of the first pureplay impact credit players in Europe. Our new Impact Research Award highlights the critical role of academic researchers’ work in our impact decision-making process.
Looking ahead, our focus is on demonstrating the value of sustainable investing and making it even more tangible for clients. To this end, in 2025 we are prioritising the development of climate transition-focused products and further enhancing our approach to impact investments to target meaningful outcomes. Additionally, our stewardship activities will encompass issues such as living wages, mental health and responsible use of artificial intelligence.
Discover more highlights of our year in sustainable investing – and download our report in full.
1 Our mutual fund AUM figure is a subset of our total AUM. The percentage number we quote here includes only EU-domiciled mutual funds reporting under EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation Article 8 or Article 9.