COVID-19: stewardship and the pandemic - AXA Investment Managers

Learn more about our engagement around public health, climate change, biodiversity, human capital and corporate governance in AXA IM's H1 Stewardship Report.

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Responsible investment in 2020 was meant to be all about starting the Transition Decade to a low-carbon future. The asset management industry would build on the mainstreaming of ESG and climate change into investment strategies – and AXA IM would seek to lead from the front. The shock of the COVID-19 pandemic may have shaken things up, but it has only served to strengthen those trends. As an active long-term fund manager, they had the agility and experience to respond quickly and meaningfully in this crisis, helped in part by the quality of their existing relationships with investee companies. Despite the lockdown, they engaged more than 180 issuers in the past six months and voted at about 4,300 shareholder meetings. AXA IM’s record of expressing their opinion and recommendations through engagement and voting is outlined in this report.

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