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Active ownership: LGT Capital Partners publishes 2024 report for sustainable equity and fixed income

LGT Capital Partners has published its Active Ownership Report 2024, offering insights into their engagement efforts, key outcomes and the evolution of their active ownership strategy within sustainable equity and fixed income portfolios.

Posted on Jun 24, 2025

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... This 2024 report, with active ownership metrics and case studies, highlights LGT Capital Partners' commitment to positively influencing corporate behaviour, driving measurable ESG improvements and aligning investments with long-term sustainability goals.

  • Extensive global engagements - the sustainable equity and fixed income teams engaged with 54 companies across 16 countries.
  • Geographical distribution - 50% of their engagements were concentrated in Europe, followed by 42% in the Americas and 7% in Asia.
  • Priority areas - environmental topics were the primary focus, accounting for 39% of engagements, in line with their five-year engagement theme of climate action. Topics predominantly centered on climate action, biodiversity, supply chain management and sustainability disclosures. 82% of engagements were linked to the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs).
  • Engagement classification - half of engagements were explicitly aimed at driving change, with 50% being objective oriented, 33% research related and 18% reactive.
  • Proxy voting - a fundamental aspect of their active ownership approach is the exercising of voting rights. In 2024, they participated in 100% of the meetings of our portfolio companies, voting on a total of 1,140 items.

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