The pensions world – and indeed the broader investment world – has essentially sleepwalked into their exposure to the Russian Ukraine war. War as a real and near-term geopolitical risk between major economies was thought to be too far-fetched. But beyond the immediacy of war, there is a broader problem of investors having exposure to government which treat their own society poorly to an alarming degree, and we would say unacceptable degree.
Kempen designed a framework scoring each country in our universe for a range of E, S and G factors which fit the values we believe are core to our clients’ beliefs, and their underlying beneficiaries.
In this podcast we discuss the necessity of having such a framework and how it can help investors to engage on the governance of a major country.
