Complex global issues, including climate change, the clean energy transition, and social inequality, are shaping policymaking, altering consumer behavior, and accelerating technological change. This is driving the shift to a more sustainable future.
Our 300+ investment professionals incorporate financially material sustainability-related risk and opportunity assessments into their analysis and are supported by our in-house sustainable investment specialists. Our analysts and portfolio managers share their insights and research globally.
We tailor our approach by asset class and investment style, with an awareness that sustainability considerations can affect risk, return, liquidity, and other investment objectives in different ways.
Our overarching purpose is to provide investment solutions to meet our clients’ needs and objectives. For clients who are committed to sustainable investment, our approach flows from our conviction that we can both serve their sustainable investment needs and fulfil our fiduciary responsibilities while considering the impact of our investments on communities, society, and the environment. The decisions we make in our sustainable investment-based portfolios are rooted in the same rigorous fundamental analysis for which our firm has always been known.
Lazard Asset Management LLC (including its global investment advisory affiliates, “Lazard” or the “firm”) actively manages client portfolios with the objective of delivering positive investment performance and maximizing long-term shareholder value. Portfolio managers at Lazard have discretion to incorporate ESG considerations into their investment processes, and to what degree. Information concerning a particular investment strategy’s utilization of ESG considerations (including its status as ESG Integrated or Sustainability Focused under our procedures) are set forth in Lazard’s description of that strategy, or are available upon request. Other disclosures herein may describe sustainable investment views and resources that Lazard’s ESG professionals have developed to assist our clients and portfolio management teams.
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