How do sustainability scores affect investor behaviour?

In Richard Reporting, Richard Kooloos, Director Group Sustainability, drops in on colleagues to find out how they personally are making sustainability a reality. This time he talks to Mary Pieterse-Bloem, a member of the ABN AMRO Investment Committee, Global Head Fixed Income and a professor of financial markets at the Erasmus School of Economics, about research on the sustainability scores of investments.

Sustainable investment is now the norm at ABN AMRO. The bank devotes a great deal of time and energy to providing access to the sustainability assessments of companies in which its clients can invest. Then you want to know the impact as well – do the bank’s advisers and clients actually do anything with these sustainability scores? And can the bank do more to leverage them?

Articles: 

• Principles for Responsible Investment 

• Financial Times