Sustainability in our funds

We believe that companies that incorporate sustainability in their business strategy will outperform their peers over the longer term. Investing sustainably is thus essential in order to achieve the best possible risk-adjusted returns for unit holders.

Holger Drachmann, Sørfjord. Hardanger, 1886.This painting is manipulated and belongs to The Art Museums of Skagen.

Sustainability in our funds

We exclude

A range of non-sustainable products, businesses and activities.

We integrate

Sustainability is an integrated part of the investment process. We reward companies that provide sustainable solutions.

We are very active owners

Through direct dialogue with companies and voting at general meetings, we can positively influence companies' behaviour over the long term.

Sustainability report

We have now published our second third Sustainability Report for 2020. Read the report below.

Read the sustainability report here

Environmental, Social and Governance Policy

Our sustainability policy combines the strengths of both SKAGEN and Storebrand within sustainable investing and active ownership.

Read the policy here

Find out how the funds vote

Find out how we have voted in our portfolio companies the day after the votes are cast.

The team

Silje Simonsen Viste and Sondre Myge Haugland work with sustainable investing and oversee our sustainability policy. They work closely with the portfolio managers to screen each potential portfolio company against our guidelines, both before an investment is made and after a company has entered the portfolio.

"We want to be good investors and all our investments should be sustainable. We combine this with our main objective of creating good returns for our unit holders," says Sondre.

How SKAGEN invests sustainably

We report on our sustainability work on a quarterly basis.

The report lays out how we work with all aspects of sustainability – from how we incorporate ESG (environment, social and governance) factors into our investment process to how we as a company work with sustainability.

You can find our sustainability reports in pdf format below.

Previous reports

Global Stock Markets Coronavirus Sustainability

CEO update: An odd year

18 December 2020

As this extraordinary year draws to a close, we reflect on what we have learned. While the pandemic has served to remind us of our essential fragility, one of the benefits is that sustainability is now firmly at the forefront of people's minds.