Shaping sustainable pathways towards change
Our ambition is to be a sustainability shaper for our clients. Our Sustainability and Stewardship Report 2022 charts our progress on this journey, covering our sustainable investment activities and commitment to active stewardship.
This year’s report also showcases our enhanced approach to corporate sustainability as we embed sustainable values across our business.
Our goal? To progress from sustainability commitments towards tangible change and real-world impact.
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Sustainability highlights 2022
Total assets under management (AuM)
of ESG risk-focused, sustainability-focused and impact-focused
438 engagements
covering 996 topics
shareholder meetings participated in during 2022
50% Female
(since 2020)
electricity in our offices and local data centres (since 2021)
Data as at 31 December 2022
Our progress in 2022
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- Our sustainability shaper ambition means guiding investors on the journey from an ESG-risk1 focus to sustainability and ultimately to showing the true impact of our investments.
- Throughout the challenges of 2022, we remained committed to supporting this transition by developing scalable solutions structured around our three pivotal themes: climate change, planetary boundaries, and inclusive capitalism.
- These themes guide our targeted engagement and research to ensure we identity the most material risks and opportunities.
The future temperature in
which we will live
How we sustain ourselves in
a future higher temperature
How we live equitably in
a resource-constrained world
- In 2022 our thematic focus areas included the interconnectivity of the climate crisis and biodiversity, the future of energy, and the relationship between social inclusion, climate change and biodiversity-related challenges.
- We embedded these focus areas in our sustainability research programme and expanded stewardship activities, supported by our enhanced data capabilities.
1 Environmental, Social and Governance.
- We increased our range of sustainable products to 177 (2021: 150) offered across three categories to meet an increasingly broad range of client needs and objectives.
- We developed a new key performance indicator approach applied to our sustainability-focused and impact-focused products, focusing on measurable targets, monitoring and reporting.
ESG risk-focused EUR 117bn
These strategies incorporate material ESG risk considerations into investment analysis without constraining the investment universe. This category includes our integrated ESG investment
Sustainability-focused EUR 126bn
These strategies have specific sustainability objectives and values, and apply sustainable minimum exclusion criteria. This category includes our sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) best-in-class, climate engagement with outcome and key performance indicator (KPI) based investment approaches.
Impact-focused EUR 9bn
These strategies aim to achieve measurable sustainable outcomes on specific issues, such as renewable energy and the priorities set out in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This category includes our private market impact and and SDG-aligned investment approaches.
- Sustainability research is a cornerstone of AllianzGI’s active investment approach and close collaboration between our Research team and our Stewardship and Sustainability Methodologies and Analytics teams has advanced the credible and consistent use of ESG data in our investment processes.
- Given the criticality of ESG data as the foundation for every sustainability-informed investment decision, we launched our Sustainability Insights Engine (SusIE) – a digital platform facilitating access to a range of ESG data from multiple providers in one place.
2, 3 These figures relate to EU-domiciled funds that are classified as either Article 8 or Article 9 under SFDR.
4 The ESG risk-focused category (integrated ESG investment approach) is not considered sustainable according to EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation.
- As an active investment manager, we see constructive engagement dialogue with investee companies as essential for creating sustainable pathways towards change.
- Our global approach also incorporates proxy voting at the shareholder meetings of all the companies in which we invest where we have the authority to exercise voting rights.
- We participated in 10,200 shareholder meetings in 2022. Focus topics included the election of board directors, executive compensation, authorisations related to capital structure, and the appointment of external auditors.
- We substantially expanded our engagement activities in 2022, engaging with 355 companies in 28 countries through a thematic and collaborative engagement approach aligned to our three themes plus the topic of governance.
Highlights of our expanded engagement activities
in 2022
Highlights of our proxy voting activities
in 2022
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10,200shareholder meetings participated in during 2022 |
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Representing 94%of all votable meetings |
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We opposed 22%of all management resolutions |
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At 69%of meetings globally we voted against, withheld or abstained from at least one agenda item |
5 Some engagement activities span multiple years.
6 Engagement on “sustainable investment share” and Principal Adverse Impacts began in 2022 per regulatory requirements.
7 Emerging market sovereign engagement was not reported in 2021.
- Being a sustainable business means creating long-term value without compromising our impact on people, the planet or profit, and we are committed to the same high standards that we expect of the companies in which we invest.
- With the new role of Corporate Sustainability Officer in place we developed a three-year road map to enable delivery of our long-term ambitions.
- These focus on how we empower our people, how we run our business, how we manage the environmental effects of our operations, and how we contribute to societal development.
Our corporate sustainability approach
8 Social = related to society; the CSR concept is not limited to charitable work; responsibility refers to social, environmental and governance aspects.
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