The Dutch pension asset manager APG has published its second annual Stewardship Overview, highlighting the activities it carried out on behalf of its clients in 2023.

The report looks at APG’s activities in a range of asset classes and markets all over the world and shows how it implements its clients’ responsible investment policies in practice.

The annual Stewardship Overview is part of APG’s commitment to being transparent about the activities it carries out on behalf of clients and to making its activities tangible for stakeholders, in pursuit of its goal to help create a more sustainable future.

Commenting, APG chief sustainability and strategy officer, Claudia Kruse, said: “APG wants to contribute to a sustainable future while securing long-term returns for our pension fund clients and their beneficiaries. This is why assessing our investments’ sustainability and governance performance and their risk and return characteristics, is an integral part of our investment process.

“We work with a wide range of stakeholders and believe that as a responsible investor we need to address systemic risks like biodiversity as part of our stewardship efforts. Realising APG’s and our clients’ ambitions also means actively seeking investments that contribute to solving societal and sustainability issues. The ambition to have a real-world impact and being able to measure that impact, forms the foundation for our ongoing work.”

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