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Active Ownership

Storebrand aims to be a driving force for lasting change in how companies are managed while ensuring the best possible return for customers and owners.

Moving companies in a more sustainable direction

Storebrand's sustainable investment team is in dialogue with many companies each year, seeking to influence them towards a more sustainable direction.

By entering into dialogue with companies on their sustainability practices and development, we challenge them to be more proactive in addressing critical issues. 

We drive change through focused engagement, clear principles, and a diverse set of tools targeting climate, nature, and human rights across our investments. In our experience, we achieve the best results through cooperation with other investors and targeted engagement with companies where our ownership level is highest.

Engagement process and principles

Engagement themes 2024-26

For the period from 2024-2026 Storebrand Asset Management has prioritised three individual engagement themes and two cross-cutting themes.

Individual themes

  • Climate change
  • Nature
  • Human rights

Cross-cutting themes

  • Policy dialogue
  • Sustainability disclosure

The individual engagement themes cover certain environmental and social aspects of sustainability, while the cross-cutting themes address some aspects of governance, and context necessary to enable sustainable investment.

Our engagement priorities are characterised by a focus on double materiality, addressing salient issues that have implications for the financial value of companies, as well as the companies’ impact on the world at large. Strategically, we have also focused on issues where we have significant in-house expertise and experience, and where we believe we are well-placed to influence companies in a positive direction.

The themes that we have prioritised align with the Sustainable Development Goals and with our own corporate commitments, as outlined in our Sustainable Investment Policy.

Climate change

Storebrand is committed to achieving net-zero GHG emissions by 2050 through active engagement with key sectors, high emitting companies and climate laggards in our portfolios. We encourage companies to have credible climate strategies aligned with the Paris Agreement.

Nature

We prioritise engagement within protecting biodiversity and mitigating nature loss. We are committing to eliminate commodity-driven deforestation by 2025, and prioritising dialogue with companies in ecologically sensitive areas for impactful environmental stewardship.

Human rights

Storebrand Asset Management avoids investing in companies involved in severe human rights violations. We engage with companies and policymakers to promote human rights, and will have a particular focus on reducing inequalities, conflict areas, and digital rights.

Policy dialogue

We actively engage with policymakers and stakeholders to promote sustainable business practices aligned with the SDGs and global agreements on climate, nature, and human rights. 

Sustainability disclosure

We advocate for standardised sustainability reporting by companies to enhance transparency, manage sustainability risks and ensure comparable and reliable information for better investment decisions.

Articles on Active Ownership

Human RightsActive Ownership
Closing the gap at Amazon.com
16 May 2025

Continued engagement and voting escalation regarding risks on labour rights

Human RightsActive Ownership
Pressuring Amazon.com on respecting workers’ rights
3 October 2024

Storebrand co-files resolution at AGM and supports joint letter on company’s response to trade ...

Climate and NatureActive Ownership
Nippon Steel engagement update
1 October 2024

Shareholder resolutions successfully demonstrated broad support for greater ambition and ...

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Our Approach: Philosophy & Guiding Principles

Screening & Exclusions

Proactively screening or exiting investments that are not aligned with our sustainabile investment policies and goals.

Active Ownership

Engaging with the companies we invest in to reduce their negative impacts and increase the positive effects of their business models.

Solutions

Aligning our investment decisions with the SDGs by allocating more capital to sustainable solutions centred on themes such as renewable energy, smart cities, circular economy and equal opportunities.

Reporting & Transparency

Providing ongoing disclosure on our sustainable investment commitments, targets, KPIs and operational activities.

Historical returns are no guarantee for future returns. Future returns will depend, inter alia, on market developments, the fund manager’s skills, the fund’s risk profile and management fees. The return may become negative as a result of negative price developments. There is risk associated with investing in funds due to market movements, currency developments, interest rate levels, economic, sector and company-specific conditions. The funds are denominated in NOK. Returns may increase or decrease as a result of currency fluctuations. Prior to making a subscription, we encourage you to read the fund's prospectus and key investor information document which contain further details about the fund's characteristics and costs.