Stewardship and Engagement

As an advanced responsible asset manager, AXA IM believe that a robust and measurable stewardship and engagement strategy will build a beneficial environment for our clients. Our responsible investment teams lobby for change with industry bodies and regulators, vote with conviction at company meetings, and maintain dialogue with companies to effect change - where future risk is foreseen, to drive progress to a sustainable future.

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Stewardship in figures

681
total engagements, +14% increase vs 20221.
200
engagements at senior executive or board director level1.
+69 %
of engagements linked to the UN SDGs, with high proportion on climate action goal. 1
54,782
proposals voted. 1
4,856
meetings. 1
63 %
of escalations see vote escalation used as the main technique. 1

Marco Morelli, AXA IM Executive Chairman
Gilles Moëc, AXA Group Chief Economist and AXA IM Core Head of Research
Virginie Derue, AXA IM Head of RI research
Clémence Humeau, AXA IM Head of Sustainability Coordination and Governance
2023 engagement themes

In 2023, we conducted 681 engagements with 503 entities, representing a 14% increase in engagements compared to 2022. The increase was observed both for engagement with objectives (298) and for sustainability dialogue (383, +60%).

Engagement and dialogue are often conducted in collaboration with various teams providing strategic and technical views of the company’s practices. Our integrated stewardship approach allows the information gained during engagement to be fed into investment-decision making.

Progress

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Initially comprised of eight metrics selected for their strategic importance and material contribution towards our goal of becoming net zero as a business and investor by 2050.

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