November 19, 2024

The International ESG Identity Awards 2024 were presented last night, Monday, November 18. The presentation took place during the ceremony that closed the first day of the salone.SRI in Borsa Italiana (Italian Stock Exchange).

Luca Testoni, founder of ET.Group and salone.SRI, commented: ‘It is significant that, in a very challenging scenario for the environmental, social and governance analysis model, the number of Asset Managers undergoing the assessment on their ESG Identity is growing significantly. Recent SEC sanctions also demonstrate how crucial the Asset Manager’s governance structure is. Going forward, any fund selection activity cannot fail to measure the Asset Managers’ ESG Identity. Indeed, this concept encompasses the set of distinctive elements of an Asset Manager, starting from its organizational structure (governance) to the ESG consistency and coherence of its offering to the market, via the ways in which the entity thinks (its ESG corporate culture) and engages on the sustainable front (its ESG purpose)‘.

The Awards were based on the analysis on the ESG Identity of Asset Managers, ESG.IAMA 2024, with respect to 11 categories:

ESG.IAMA:
1. Eurizon Capital SGR
2. DPAM
3. BNP Paribas Asset Management

Corporate ESG Identity:
1. Eurizon Capital SGR
2. Legal & General Investment Management
3. Schroders

ESG Investment Process:
1. Abrdn
2. Eurizon Capital SGR
3. BNP Paribas Asset Management

ESG Asset Management:
1. Legal & General Investment Management
2. Allianz Global Investors
3. AXA Investment Managers

ESG Identity Extended:
1. Eurizon Capital SGR
2. DPAM
3. Candriam

Behemoth size AM:
1. UBS Asset Management
2. Legal & General Investment Management
3. Amundi AM

Large size AM:
1. Eurizon Capital SGR
2. BNP Paribas Asset Management
3. AXA Investment Managers

Mid-size AM:
1. Candriam
2. Ofi invest Asset Management
3. Groupama Asset Management

Small size AM:
1. DPAM
2. Rothschild & Co Asset Management
3. Lazard Frères Gestion

Boutique size AM:
1. Etica Sgr
2. IMPact SGR
3. Sycomore AM

Italian Asset Manager:
1. Eurizon Capital SGR
2. Etica Sgr
3. Generali AM

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