Our Approach to Sustainable Investing

The global challenges we face mean that the relationships between companies and their stakeholders—including employees, consumers, suppliers, governments, and the environment—have never been more complex or critical to understand.

 

The current backdrop has given impetus to a broader interest in sustainable investing, which is becoming an important priority for certain investors that are more focused on the financial impacts arising from the feedback loops between industry, society, and the environment.

 

We believe that fundamental analysis, supported by the thoughtful application of non-traditional data alongside targeted interactions with companies and governments where relevant, can unearth interesting investment opportunities and help to mitigate risks.

 

To do this, we believe investment expertise must be at the forefront of integrating human capital, natural capital, and governance considerations across relevant strategies and products. That is why our investment research, company engagements, and voting activities are often fully led by our investment professionals.

 

Reports and Policy

 

Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) – UK Entity Report (Lazard Asset Management Ltd.)

 

Find enclosed Lazard Asset Management Limited’s first UK entity annual report in line with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate- Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Lazard Asset Management (LAM) has been a supporter of the TCFD since 2019. Supporting the TCFD aids financial markets through helping to standardise reporting and disclosures on climate across the market to address systemic risk as well as promoting the markets’ ability to price carbon risk.

 

Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Report

 

Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) UK Product-Level Reports

 

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