| Organisational Overview | ||||||
| Organisational Overview This section captures information that helps determine if some of the subsequent questions are required and also plays a role in benchmarking. Please make sure you provide accurate answers. This is also one of the more challenging sections as it may require gathering information from multiple sources. We suggest you collect all this information before progressing to other parts of the questionnaire. | ||||||
| 1. What were your organisation's total assets under management as of the most recent count (in millions)? (Estimating to the nearest hundred million as of December 31 2008 would be preferable - although the most recent available count would be sufficient. If your currency is not listed, please select 'other' and indicate your currency or convert to United States dollars.) | 181000 | |||||
| Please select currency | Swedish krona (SEK) | |||||
| 1a. If 'Other' was selected, please specify the other currency here | No Answer | |||||
2. Please pick the one category and level of complexity that best describes your organisation (if your organisation is a pension fund, please also select your pension type). This information may be used to provide you with the best possible benchmarking. Complexity
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| Non-corporate pension or superannuation or retirement or provident fund or plan | Simple | Primarily defined contribution | ||||
| 2a. If 'Other' was selected, please specify the other category here | No answer | |||||
| 3. Please provide an approximation of your average asset mix for 2008 or your asset mix as of the most recent count (in percent):(+/- 5% is sufficient. The sum of all the fields must be 100%) | ||||||
Active | Passive | Active | Passive | |||
| Listed equity (developed markets) | 0 | 10.5 | 4.4 | 28.6 | ||
| Listed equity (emerging markets) | 0 | 0 | 2.9 | 0 | ||
| Fixed income (not including corporate issuers) | 24.9 | 0 | 1.5 | 0 | ||
| Fixed income (corporate issuers) | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Private equity | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Listed real estate or property | 3.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Non-listed real estate or property | 0 | 0 | 1.7 | 0 | ||
| Hedge funds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Commodities | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Infrastructure | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | ||
| Governance, Policy and Strategy | ||||||
| Governance, Policy and StrategyQuestions 5 through 15 are about the governance and oversight of your organisation s responsible investment activities and the associated policies and strategy. This section will be scored separately from the six Principles."Policy" in this section may refer to one overall RI policy or multiple policies that address various elements of RI. | ||||||
| 5. Do you have a policy that makes specific reference to responsible investment (RI) or environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues? | Yes | |||||
| 6. If you have a policy that makes specific reference to RI/ESG issues, which of the following Principles does it address?(Please check all that apply.) | Principle 1: We will incorporate ESG issues into investment analysis and decision-making processes.,Principle 2: We will be active owners and incorporate ESG issues into our ownership policies and practices.,Principle 3: We will seek appropriate disclosure on ESG issues by the entities in which we invest.,Principle 5: We will work together to enhance our effectiveness in implementing the Principles.,Principle 6: We will each report on our activities and progress towards implementing the Principles. | |||||
| 7. If you have a policy that makes specific reference to RI/ESG issues, which of the following asset classes does it apply to?(Please check all that apply.) | Listed equity (developed markets),Listed equity (emerging markets),Fixed income (corporate issuers),Listed real estate or property | |||||
| 8. If you have a policy that makes specific reference to RI/ESG issues, when was your policy last reviewed? | Within the last 3 years, and planning to in 2009 | |||||
| 9. If you have a policy that makes specific reference to RI/ESG issues, has it been disclosed publicly?(If answering yes, please indicate how this statement can be obtained - a URL would be sufficient. If answering no, please explain why not.) | Yes: 'http://www.ap3.se/en/About+us/Environmental+and+social+responsibility/Environmental+and+social+responsibility.htm and http://www.ap3.se/en/About+us/Corporate+governance and http://www.ap3.se/NR/rdonlyres/228FC7A1-01CB-44ED-9EF1-C61833A1ADB0/0/Ethical_Council_AR_2007.pdf' | |||||
10. To what extent has your approach to responsible investment been translated into a plan of action as reflected in business planning, strategic planning, or similar internal management processes?
| To a moderate extent | |||||
| 11. Who within your organisation has responsibilities related to RI implementation?(Please check all that apply.) | Board of trustees or board of directors,Chief Executive Officer or Chief Investment Officer or equivalent,RI or ESG specialist | |||||
| 12. Do you have a policy or approach/process that requires screening out or excluding stocks or sectors from your investment universe? | Stocks | |||||
| 13. What are your reasons for screening out or excluding stocks or sectors from your investment universe?(Please check all that apply.) | Other (please specify): 'We exclude companies as a last resort if they are in breach with international conventions and a dialogue with the company doesn´t get the results we want. However, we prefer dialogues and exclusion is the last step.' | |||||
| 14. Please describe how your organisation assesses if there is a link between your RI activities and the performance (risk and return) of your investments: | No Answer | |||||
| 15. Please add any overall comments and clarifications related to Governance, Policy, and Strategy here. | No Answer | |||||
| Principle 1 | ||||||
Principle 1: We will incorporate ESG issues into investment analysis and decision-making processes.For the purposes of this questionnaire, integration is the consideration of ESG issues alongside traditional financial measures, based on the belief that ESG issues can affect the performance (risk and/or return) of investment portfolios (to varying degrees across companies, sectors, regions, asset classes and through time). Please note that the view that ESG issues can influence investment returns may be based either on
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| 16. Please provide a one to two paragraph description of your approach to this Principle.This question and similar questions relating to each of the other Principles are being asked for three reasons. The first reason is to gather details regarding signatory implementation for inclusion in the PRI annual report on progress. The second reason is to capture activities not captured directly by questions in the Reporting and Assessment Tool. The third reason is to provide context and details to support verification calls. | We believe that well governed compnaies perform better in the long term and are therefore a better long term investment. We screen our internal and external equity portfolio to identify convention breaches. We engage in dialogues with companies that are breaching international conventions. We have proactive dialogues with Swedish companies on ESG. We use our voting rights. We have a small portion of the portfolio invested in environmental investments. | |||||
| Integration of ESG issues into investment analysis and decision-making processes of internally managed assets | ||||||
| 17. For what percentage of your internal assets under active management do you integrate RI/ESG issues into your internal investment decision-making processes (in percent)?(+/- 5% is sufficient.) | ||||||
| Fixed income (not including corporate issuers) | 0 | |||||
| Fixed income (corporate issuers) | 100 | |||||
| Listed real estate or property | 100 | |||||
18. To what extent have you integrated RI/ESG issues into your internal active investment decision-making processes?(Applies only to investments that include integration of RI/ESG issues as indicated in Q17.)
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| Fixed income (not including corporate issuers) | Not applicable | |||||
| Fixed income (corporate issuers) | To a small extent | |||||
| Listed real estate or property | To a small extent | |||||
19. When forming investment views, to what extent does your organisation gather and analyse ESG information, including, where applicable, information obtained from engagement activities?(Applies only to investments that include integration of RI/ESG issues as indicated in Q17.)
| To a small extent | |||||
20. To what extent do portfolio managers or others making investment decisions in your organisation apply the ESG information and analysis available to them when constructing and managing portfolios?(Applies only to investments that include integration of RI/ESG issues as indicated in Q17.)
| To a small extent | |||||
21. To what extent do you have a process for improving the effectiveness of research and portfolio management processes with regards to ESG factors?(Applies only to investments that include integration of RI/ESG issues as indicated in Q17.)
| To a small extent | |||||
22. To what extent do you have a process for assessing and improving internal investment staff competency to incorporate RI/ESG issues into investment analysis and decision-making processes?(Applies only to investments that include integration of RI/ESG issues as indicated in Q17.)
| To a moderate extent | |||||
| Integration of ESG issues into investment analysis and decision-making processes of externally managed assets | ||||||
| 23. For what percentage of your external assets under management are RI/ESG issues integrated into the investment decision-making processes of your external investment managers (in percent, +/- 5% is sufficient)? | ||||||
| Listed equity (developed markets) | 100 | |||||
| Listed equity (emerging markets) | 100 | |||||
| Fixed income (not including corporate issuers) | 0 | |||||
| Private equity | 0 | |||||
| Non-listed real estate or property | 100 | |||||
24. To what extent have RI/ESG issues been integrated into the investment decision-making processes of your external investment managers?(Applies only to investments that include integration of RI/ESG issues as indicated in Q23.)
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| Listed equity (developed markets) | To a moderate extent | |||||
| Listed equity (emerging markets) | To a small extent | |||||
| Fixed income (not including corporate issuers) | Not applicable | |||||
| Private equity | Not applicable | |||||
| Non-listed real estate or property | To a moderate extent | |||||
25. To what extent do you consider the capabilities of external investment managers to incorporate RI/ESG issues when searching for, selecting and retaining your external investment managers?(Applies only to investments that include integration of RI/ESG issues as indicated in Q23.)
| To a small extent | |||||
| Integration - final comments | ||||||
| 26. Please add any overall comments and clarifications related to Principle 1 here. Please also describe any significant activities relating to Principle 1 that have not been captured by the questions above. | This is the principle that provides most challenges, especially since large part of the portfolio is externally managed and/or passively managed. Our business model with alpha/beta separation provides another challenge.It is also a challenge to integrate ESG in all asset classes. | |||||
| Principle 2 | ||||||
| Principle 2: We will be active owners and incorporate ESG issues into our ownership policies and practices. | ||||||
| 27. Please provide a one to two paragraph description of your approach to this Principle. | We engage on two levels. First as active owners with domestic companies regarding ESG and by voting in a number of foreign companies.We engage in doemstic companies ro ensure they have risk assesments and procedures reagrding ES-issuers in place. Secondly we engage as active owners with foreign companies together with AP1-AP4 through the Ethical council.We engage in dialogues with companies that are accused of breaching international conventions. | |||||
| (Proxy) voting - applies only to listed equity (developed markets), listed equity (emerging markets) and listed real estate or property. | ||||||
| 28. Do you have a (proxy) voting policy?(If 'Yes - disclosed publicly', please indicate how your (proxy) voting policy can be obtained- a URL would be sufficient. If answering no, please explain why not.) | Yes - disclosed publicly: 'www.ap3.se' | |||||
| 29. Does your (proxy) voting policy address environmental, social, and governance issues? | ||||||
| Environmental | Yes | |||||
| Social | Yes | |||||
| Governance | Yes | |||||
| 30. Who decided how to vote on ballot items on behalf of your organisation in 2008?(Please check all that apply.) | External investment manager,Internal voting or governance group,External proxy voting service,External engagement service provider(s),Other (please specify): 'We have delegated voting rights to external managers, so some of the voting decisions are managed by them. Some of them use extrnal proxy advisors and some of them have inhouse governance teams. However, we vote in a selcted part of our portfolio inhouse and decisions for that portfolio are made by internal governance group' | |||||
31. To what extent is information related to ballot items gathered and analysed before voting decisions are made?
| To a moderate extent | |||||
| 32. Do you ensure that voting is done in accordance with your voting instructions? | Yes for some | |||||
| 33. Do you inform companies of your rationale when you abstain or vote against management recommendations? | Yes for some | |||||
| 34. Please indicate how many resolutions you could have voted on and how many resolutions you did vote on in 2008:(include abstentions as votes where votes against are not possible, use the last available one year period if information for 2008 is not available or too difficult to gather, approximate numbers are acceptable. If you are unable to provide the exact number please provide an approximation of the percentage by entering 10 in the 'Resolutions could have voted on' column and your estimate in the 'Resolutions voted on' column. So if you voted on about 70% of the possible resolutions you would enter 7 in the 'Resolutions voted on' column. If you are not sure, please enter a 1 in all four fields.) | ||||||
| Domestic | 70 | 50 | ||||
| Foreign | 10 | 6 | ||||
| 35. You are classified as an Asset Owner and should not answer this question. For the listed equities that you manage, do you provide (proxy) voting services for your clients if they request them? | No Answer | |||||
| 36. How does your securities lending program address voting? | Other (please specify): 'We recall all Swedish shares for voting, we recall some foreign shares' | |||||
| 37. How many shareholder resolutions related to ESG issues did you file or co-file during 2008? | ||||||
| As lead filer | ||||||
| As co-filer | 1 | |||||
| Planning to be lead filer in 2009 | 1 | |||||
| Planning to be co-filer in 2009 | ||||||
| 38. Please explain why you did or did not file or co-file any shareholder resolutions related to RI/ESG issues during 2008: | Cofiling resolutions is sometimes an efficient tool to put pressure on a compaany when the dialogue with the company doesn´t move in the desired direction. Equally important as filing /cofiling is to vote on other resolutions and therefore it is useful to have the PRI Clearinghouse inform about upcomming resolutions. (Such as the CERES initiative which we have supported) | |||||
| Engagement - general | ||||||
| 39. Who engaged with companies to seek ESG improvements in 2008?Please rank who engaged with companies according to their importance within your overall active ownership activities. You can only select Most, Second, Third and Fourth most important once each. Only the method you rank as 'Most important' will be scored for benchmarking purposes. If you wish to request that your other methods of engagement also be scored, please complete all the relevant sections and email the PRI at assessment@unpri.org when you submit your response. | ||||||
| Internal staff | Most important | |||||
| External investment manager(s) | Fourth most important | |||||
| External engagement service provider(s) | Third most important | |||||
| Second most important | |||||
| 40. Do you have a written engagement policy or other documents that direct engagement?(If 'Yes - disclosed publicly', please indicate how your policy can be obtained- a URL would be sufficient.) | Yes - disclosed publicly: 'http://www.ap3.se/NR/rdonlyres/228FC7A1-01CB-44ED-9EF1-C61833A1ADB0/0/Ethical_Council_AR_2007.pdf AND http://www.ap3.se/NR/rdonlyres/F1BC16F4-BD03-44EF-95F0-25817DEAF571/0/GlobalCorporateGovernancePolicy2009.pdf ANDhttp://www.ap3.se/NR/rdonlyres/1145B67B-3D20-4FB9-86E1-52B463FFF66C/0/analyspm_vårsynpåportföljbolagensansvarförmiljöetik2007engelsk.pdf' | |||||
| 41. If you have an engagement policy or other documents that direct engagement, what do they include?(Please check all that apply.) | Expectations of companies with regards to social issues,Expectations of companies with regards to governance issues,Approach to monitoring companies,Approach to selecting companies for engagement,Approach to measuring engagement success | |||||
| 42. How many companies are you invested in? | 3500 | |||||
| Engagement - internal staff | ||||||
43. To what extent do you have a process for identifying and prioritising ESG related engagement opportunities?
| To a moderate extent | |||||
44. How many portfolio companies did you engage with on ESG issues in 2008?
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| Extensive engagement | 50 | |||||
| Moderate engagement | 40 | |||||
| Basic engagement | 3400 | |||||
| 45. What proportion of your engagements addressed environmental, social or governance issues (in percent)?(One engagement may address more than one issue, so the three percentages need not add to 100%. For example, if you only had one engagement and it addressed environmental and governance issues then the answer would be 100% for environmental and 100% for governance.) | ||||||
| Environmental | 100 | |||||
| Social | 100 | |||||
| Governance | 100 | |||||
46. To what extent do you set ESG engagement objectives and attempt to evaluate your engagement success?
| To a moderate extent | |||||
| 47. What percentage of engagements that ended in 2008 were deemed successful (in percent)?(Engagement success: a considerable part of objectives or milestones that were set when the engagement commenced were achieved.) | 25 | |||||
48. To what extent do you have a process for assessing and improving staff competency to act as active owners and incorporate ESG issues into ownership practices?
| To a moderate extent | |||||
| Engagement - external engagement service provider(s) | ||||||
49. How many portfolio companies did your external engagement service provider(s) engage with on ESG issues on your behalf in 2008?
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| Extensive engagement | 35 | |||||
| Moderate engagement | 76 | |||||
| Basic engagement | 75 | |||||
| 50. What proportion of your external engagement service provider(s)'s engagements on your behalf addressed environmental, social or governance issues (in percent)?(One engagement may address more than one issue, so the three percentages need not add to 100%. For example, if you only had one engagement and it addressed environmental and governance issues then the answer would be 100% for environmental and 100% for governance.) | ||||||
| Environmental | 100 | |||||
| Social | 100 | |||||
| Governance | 0 | |||||
51. To what extent do you contribute to and assess the ESG engagement activities of your external engagement service provider(s)?
| To a large extent | |||||
| Engagement - external investment manager(s) | ||||||
52. How many portfolio companies did your external investment manager(s)'s engage with on ESG issues on your behalf in 2008?
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| Extensive engagement | 0 | |||||
| Moderate engagement | 0 | |||||
| Basic engagement | 10 | |||||
| 53. What proportion of your external investment manager(s)'s engagements on your behalf addressed environmental, social or governance issues (in percent)? (One engagement may address more than one issue, so the three percentages need not add to 100%. For example, if you only had one engagement and it addressed environmental and governance issues then the answer would be 100% for environmental and 100% for governance.) | ||||||
| Environmental | 0 | |||||
| Social | 100 | |||||
| Governance | 100 | |||||
54. To what extent do you contribute to and assess the ESG engagement activities of your external investment manager(s)?
| To a small extent | |||||
| 55. Did you consider the capabilities of external investment managers to engage with companies on ESG issues on your behalf when searching for, selecting and retaining your investment managers? | Yes, for less than half of our external investment managers | |||||
| Engagement - final comments | ||||||
| 56. What ESG issues were addressed in your or your service providers' engagement initiatives? (Please check all that apply.) | Benefits and compensation,Bribery/corruption,Climate change,Environment,Governance,Health,Health and safety,HIV/AIDS,Human rights,Labour issues | |||||
| 57. What measures do you or your external service provider(s) use to assess the impact and success of engagement? | Adress the alleged breaches of conventions and to implement preventive systems to avoid future breaches of international conventions. | |||||
| 58. Please add any overall comments and clarifications related to Principle 2 here. Please also describe any significant activities relating to Principle 2 that have not been captured by the questions above. | We believe that it is important to join initiatives that also focus on companies where we are not an owner but as a global investor can be a POTENTIAL OWNER in the future. This survey (question 42 and 44) doesn´t capture this type of engagement! The Seoul initiative, which we supported, for example was directed to 9000 companies! Although we own approx 3500 companies we believe this was an important initiative to support! | |||||
| Principle 3 | ||||||
| Principle 3: We will seek appropriate disclosure on ESG issues by the entities in which we invest. | ||||||
| 59. Please provide a one to two paragraph description of your approach to this Principle. | We actively promote ans support reporting on ESG-issues: For example we support several investor initiatives (like CDP, EITI, Global compact-initiatives etc). We also promote reporting ESG by using GRI. We actively ask companies to report on ESG. | |||||
| 60. Who asked investee companies (or other investment entities) to provide information about their ESG policies, practices or performance in 2008?(Please check all that apply.) | Internal staff,Internal staff collaboratively with other investors,External investment manager(s),External engagement service provider(s),External engagement service provider(s) collaboratively with other investors | |||||
61. To what extent did you or your external engagement service provider(s) or your external investment manager(s) have a dialogue with investee companies (or other investment entities) regarding the production of standardized reporting about their ESG policies, practices or performance in 2008?('Standardized' could also include systematic reporting in areas where standardized reporting has not yet emerged.)
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| Listed equity (developed market) | To a large extent | |||||
| Listed equity (emerging markets) | To a large extent | |||||
| Fixed income (not including corporate issuers) | Not at all | |||||
| Fixed income (corporate issuers) | Not at all | |||||
| Private equity | To a small extent | |||||
| Listed real estate or property | Not at all | |||||
| Non-listed real estate or property | To a moderate extent | |||||
| 62. What formats of reporting on ESG issue policies, practices or performance have been requested? Please check all that apply. | Integrated with regular financial reports,Standalone corporate social responsibility or sustainability reporting,Global Reporting Initiative (GRI),Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP),Other (please specify): 'Repoort on Global compact principles' | |||||
63. To what extent did you or your external engagement service provider(s) or your external investment manager(s) seek information from companies regarding their practices related to norms, standards, codes of conduct or international initiatives related to ESG issues in 2008?
| To a large extent | |||||
| 64. Please add any overall comments and clarifications related to Principle 3 here. Please also describe any significant activities relating to Principle 3 that have not been captured by the questions above. | We have supported several initiatives 2008, such as the Morley Avivas global compact initiative, EITI, CDP, Seoul-initiative etc | |||||
| Principle 4 | ||||||
| Principle 4: We will promote acceptance and implementation of the Principles within the investment industry. | ||||||
| 65. Please provide a one to two paragraph description of your approach to this Principle. | We sent letters to all our external managers 2007 asking them to sign PRI. We followed up on some of them in 2008 and have joined a PRI-initiative this year with the same demand. We include ESG-questions in our RFPs. | |||||
| 66. Did you consider RI/ESG requirements when searching for and selecting service providers in 2008 when applicable? | ||||||
| Investment consultant | Not applicable | |||||
| Proxy voting service provider | Yes, all of the time | |||||
| External overlay service provider | Yes, all of the time | |||||
| Investment research provider | Not applicable | |||||
| 67. Have you included RI/ESG elements in the following? | ||||||
| Investment monitoring | No | |||||
| Incentive structure (internally managed) | Yes, some of the time | |||||
| Incentive structure (externally managed) | No | |||||
| Contractual relationships with external investment managers | No | |||||
| Contractual relationships with other investment related service providers | No | |||||
68. To what extent did you encourage your eligible service providers to become PRI signatories or consider RI/ESG factors in 2008?(Service providers include but are not limited to: external investment managers, investment consultants, proxy voting service providers, external engagement service providers, and investment research providers.)
| To a moderate extent | |||||
69. You are classified as an Asset Owner and should not answer this question. To what extent did you encourage your institutional clients to become PRI signatories or consider RI/ESG factors in 2008?
| No Answer | |||||
70. To what extent did you encourage peer organisations to become PRI signatories or consider RI/ESG factors in 2008?
| To a small extent | |||||
| 71. Have you revisited any relationships with service providers in light of RI/ESG issue-related capabilities? | No | |||||
| 72. Does your broker evaluation process (which determines how you allocate commissions to brokers) include an ESG component and/or do you have a budget to pay for ESG broker research? | No | |||||
| 73A. What is your total investment research budget (including brokerage commissions intended to recognize research, in the same currency used in Q1) | No Answer | |||||
| 73B. what proportion of your total investment research budget is allocated to ESG research (in percent)? | No Answer | |||||
74. To what extent do you identify ESG issues and suggest them to brokers or other investment research providers for research?
| Not at all | |||||
75. To what extent did you engage in dialogue, lobbying or initiatives pertaining to government policy and/or industry regulations (for example, stock exchanges or accounting standards) related to RI/ESG issues in 2008?
| To a moderate extent | |||||
| 76. Please add any overall comments and clarifications related to Principle 4 here. Please also describe any significant activities relating to Principle 4 that have not been captured by the questions above. | Our CEO and our deputy chairman of the Board are both members of the Swedish corporate governance board. We are als active in the IÄF in Sweden (Association of institutional investors) that take active part in the regulation of Swedish governance. | |||||
| Principle 5 | ||||||
| Principle 5: We will work together to enhance our effectiveness in implementing the Principles. | ||||||
| 77. Please provide a one to two paragraph description of your approach to this Principle. | We have signed and supported a couple of the PRI clearing house initiatives. AP3 also works together with AP1, AP2 and AP4 through a joint Ethical council to promote changed behavour in companies accused for violating intenational conventions. Several of the dialogues have been together with other investors. | |||||
78. To what extent did you collaborate with other investors to improve your effectiveness in implementing each of the following Principles?
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| Principle 1 | Not at all | |||||
| Principle 2 | To a large extent | |||||
| Principle 3 | To a large extent | |||||
| Principle 4 | To a moderate extent | |||||
| 79. How did you use the PRI Engagement Clearinghouse in 2008?(Please check all that apply.) | Logged in during 2008 to use the Clearinghouse as a learning tool or to keep up to date on ongoing engagements,Joined a collaborative engagement led by another signatory that was posted to the Clearinghouse | |||||
| 80. Did you participate in any of the following RI/ESG issue-related collaborations and/or associations? For those not listed, please use the "other" field:(Please check all that apply.) | Carbon Disclosure Project,Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI),Other (please specify): 'Ethical council',Other (please specify): 'Amnesty Business Group',Other (please specify): 'IÄF - Institutional Owner Association for regulatory issues (in Sweden)' | |||||
81. Please indicate the three RI/ESG issue-related collaborative engagement initiatives and/or industry associations that you participated in most extensively and indicate how you did so:
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| PRI | To a moderate extent | Ethical Council - collaboration between AP1-AP4 | ||||
| Carbon Disclosure Project | To a moderate extent | Amnesty Business Group | ||||
| Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) | To a moderate extent | IÄF - Institutional Owner Association for regulatory issues (in Sweden) | ||||
| 82. Please add any overall comments and clarifications related to Principle 5 here. Please also describe any significant activities relating to Principle 5 that have not been captured by the questions above. | No Answer | |||||
| Principle 6 | ||||||
| Principle 6: We will each report on our activities and progress towards implementing the Principles. | ||||||
| 83. Please provide a one to two paragraph description of your approach to this Principle. | We report on our work within the Ethical council by publishing an annual report. We also publish a corporate governace report annually which describes our engagement within ESG as well as reasons for voting in a certain way. We also describe our work in our annual report.All reports are published in Swedish and English and can be found on our web site www.ap3.se. | |||||
84. To what extent did you disclose (privately and/or publicly) your approach to incorporating ESG issues into investment analysis and decision-making processes in 2008?(If you disclose publicly, please indicate how this disclosure can be obtained - a URL would be sufficient. If answering not at all, please explain why not.)
| To a moderate extent: '' | |||||
| 85. How did you disclose your (proxy) voting record in 2008?(Please select all that apply. If you disclose publicly, please indicate how this disclosure can be obtained - a URL would be sufficient. If answering not at all, please explain why not.) | Disclosed publicly: 'http://www.ap3.se/en/About+us/Corporate+governance.htm',Some votes,Guidance explaining some votes,Disclosed annually | |||||
86. To what extent did you disclose (privately and/or publicly) your RI/ESG issue-related engagement activities, results and progress in 2008?(If you disclose publicly, please indicate how this disclosure can be obtained - a URL would be sufficient. If answering not at all, please explain why not.)
| To a large extent: 'http://www.ap3.se/NR/rdonlyres/228FC7A1-01CB-44ED-9EF1-C61833A1ADB0/0/Ethical_Council_AR_2007.pdf AND http://www.ap3.se/en/About+us/Corporate+governance.htm' | |||||
| 87. Did you disclose (privately and/or publicly) RI/ESG activities, results and progress related to Principle 3, Principle 4 or Principle 5 in 2008?(If you disclose publicly, please indicate how this disclosure can be obtained - a URL would be sufficient. If answering not at all, please explain why not.) | ||||||
| Principle 3 | Yes - to the public | http://www.ap3.se/NR/rdonlyres/228FC7A1-01CB-44ED-9EF1-C61833A1ADB0/0/Ethical_Council_AR_2007.pdf andhttp://www.ap3.se/en/About+us/Corporate+governance.htm | ||||
| Principle 4 | Yes - to the public | http://www.ap3.se/NR/rdonlyres/228FC7A1-01CB-44ED-9EF1-C61833A1ADB0/0/Ethical_Council_AR_2007.pdf and http://www.ap3.se/en/About+us/Corporate+governance.htm | ||||
| Principle 5 | Yes - to the public | http://www.ap3.se/NR/rdonlyres/228FC7A1-01CB-44ED-9EF1-C61833A1ADB0/0/Ethical_Council_AR_2007.pdf and http://www.ap3.se/en/About+us/Corporate+governance.htm | ||||
| 88. How would you like to publish your responses to this PRI Reporting and Assessment tool?(Please check all that apply.) | We will send a URL to the PRI Secretariat which will link to the responsible investment section of our website (which will include a partial response to this reporting and assessment tool) | |||||
| 89. Please add any overall comments and clarifications related to Principle 6 here. Please also describe any significant activities relating to Principle 6 that have not been captured by the questions above. | No Answer | |||||
| Closing Comments | ||||||
| 90. Please describe the benefits you have enjoyed as a result of signing the PRI: | Increased collaboration with other investors. The clearing house is very good and the conference in Korea was excellent. Collaborating and sharing experiences are the achievements I value most. | |||||
| 91. What has your organisation changed as a direct result of becoming a PRI signatory? | Increased attention internally to ESG issues. Increased collaboration with other investors. Formation of the Ethical council (AP1-AP4) in the beginning of 2007. | |||||
| 92. Did the financial market turmoil of 2008 cause you to change your approach to the consideration of ESG factors or active ownership? If it did, please explain how. | No we have a systematic engagement approach which we will continue to follow. Some new agenda items on the AGMs this year will appear due to the financial crisis and are mainly due to the fact that many companies need capital injections. | |||||
| 93. What are the top three activities the PRI Secretariat could undertake to enhance and encourage further implementation of the PRI by current and prospective signatories? | ||||||
| 1. | Clearinghouse as well as monthly emails | |||||
| 2. | Webinars | |||||
| 3. | Yearly conference (for sharing experiences and promoting networking) | |||||
| 94. What are your top three PRI-related goals/priorities for 2009? | ||||||
| 1. | Continued development of the Ethical council together with AP1-AP4). | |||||
| 2. | Internal education on ESG | |||||
| 3. | Examine the possibilities to improve our work on implementing principle 1 in a larger extent. | |||||
| 95. What were your most significant achievements in 2008 in relation to your implementation of Principles? | ||||||
| Principle 1: We will incorporate ESG issues into investment analysis and decision-making processes. | ||||||
| Principle 2: We will be active owners and incorporate ESG issues into our ownership policies and practices. | We have seen that engagement can lead to changed bahaviour. Dialogues makes a difference although some of the are very time consuming. | |||||
| Principle 3: We will seek appropriate disclosure on ESG issues by the entities in which we invest. | We engaged in several PRI initiatives seeking disclosure. (Aviva Morley on Global compact; Calvert, Siran and KLD on GRI-reporting in emerging market companies; CDP-project, the Seoul-initiative regarding global compact. We also engaged in Swedish companies to seek disclosure regarding ESG. Among others we supported the Swedish Amnesty Business rating-project that seeks disclosure about how companies evaluates human rights risks , what policies and processes they have in place , code of conducts etc. | |||||
| Principle 4: We will promote acceptance and implementation of the Principles within the investment industry. | ||||||
| Principle 5: We will work together to enhance our effectiveness in implementing the Principles. | Thanks to PRI and thanks to establishing the Ethical council we have been able to collaborate in several cases with other investors which we think is very positive. | |||||
| Principle 6: We will each report on our activities and progress towards implementing the Principles. | The annual report of the Ethical COuncil received a lot of positive feedback and both media and other investors thought it was very transparent to disclose among others, company names and targets for the engagement. Publishing this report gives us confidence that transparency is important in order to build trust and understanding for a systematic approach towards ESG. | |||||
| 96. What were your biggest barriers in 2008 with relation to your implementation of the Principles? | ||||||
| Principle 1: We will incorporate ESG issues into investment analysis and decision-making processes. | We worked hard last year on alpha and betaseparation Moreover we have a large portion of investments externally managed as well as a large portion which i spassively managed. Other investments such as fixed income and private equity are challenging. Moreover, lack of time and resources makes this principle very challenging. | |||||
| Principle 2: We will be active owners and incorporate ESG issues into our ownership policies and practices. | Lack of time and resources to engage as much as we would have liked to. | |||||
| Principle 3: We will seek appropriate disclosure on ESG issues by the entities in which we invest. | Lack of time and resources to engage as much as we would have liked to. | |||||
| Principle 4: We will promote acceptance and implementation of the Principles within the investment industry. | Lack of time and resources to engage as much as we would have liked to. | |||||
| Principle 5: We will work together to enhance our effectiveness in implementing the Principles. | Lack of time and resources to engage as much as we would have liked to. | |||||
| Principle 6: We will each report on our activities and progress towards implementing the Principles. | Transparency is always a BALANCE between how much you can disclose about a dialogue. A succesful dialogue is very often a result of confidence and trust between us and the company. It takes time to build trust and trust can be lost very fast. Disclosing a dialogue can result in for example negative media publicity for both us and the company and the comapny looses confidence in us. Therefore, transparency is important BUT it is not ALWAYS possible to disclose all engagement activities. | |||||
| 97. Please indicate which principle you find the most difficult to implement and the principle you find the least difficult to implement: | ||||||
| Most difficult | Principle 1 | |||||
| Least difficult | Principle 3 | |||||