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Different stakeholders are a significant asset for Aktia. Our most important stakeholders are our customers, personnel, owners and financiers, as well as social operators such as the authorities, partners, NGOs and the media.
In changing market conditions, stakeholders are a significant asset for Aktia. Collaboration with various stakeholders helps us to assess the expectations people have of Aktia and deliver on them. Our most important stakeholders are our customers, personnel, owners and financiers, as well as social operators such as the authorities, partners, NGOs and the media.
We engage in continuous open dialogue with our stakeholders in several channels in order to develop our operations. The most important communication tools are the company’s website, social media, stock exchange and press releases, customer newsletters and regular communications with selected customer groups. We also conduct research to gauge the views of our stakeholders, and we use the results to enhance our operations. We meet and listen to our stakeholders at seminars, local events, trade fairs and joint projects. We monitor and evaluate public debate about our sector. We engage in discussions within our sector on trends, challenges and opportunities. Open and transparent co-operation with the authorities, partners and national and local media is important to us. We also aim to be a significant social actor on a local level.
For years, Aktia has invested in a few key themes, which are sports, culture, and the Baltic Sea. Sponsorship support for children has been a priority under these themes. At the heart of the partnerships are Aktia’s values: courageously, skilfully, together. The future visibility through sponsorship will support Aktia’s renewed Wealth Manager Bank brand image, and with events organised together with partners, we aim to raise their members’ awareness of the long-term of their own finances according to Aktia’s “Think Further” ideology.
Aktia is a member of Finland’s Sustainable Investment Forum (Finsif), the Standards Board for Alternative Investments, Net Zero asset Managers Initiative, the Green Building Council Finland and the Finnish Business & Society corporate responsibility network (FIBS). Aktia is a signatory of the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), so it is committed to taking the environment and society into consideration in its asset management business and to complying with good corporate governance. Aktia Asset Management has also signed the international Climate Action 100+ investor initiative, which aims to influence the companies responsible for the largest volumes of climate emissions in the world.
Aktia is an investor signatory in the CDP climate change, water and forest initiatives, encouraging listed companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions and use of water and forests. Aktia also supports the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) by participating in CDP’s annual SBTi campaign and we are a public supporter of the TCFD (Task Force on Climate related Financial Disclosures) recommendations.
In 2021, Aktia joined the advisory committee of the ASCOR (Assessing Sovereign Climate-related Opportunities and Risks) project, which aims to create a practical sovereign climate risk assessment tool for the global investment community. In 2022, Aktia also signed the Principles for Responsible Banking and became a member of UNEP FI (United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative) that helps financial institutions to set and implement sustainability targets and communicate about their impacts.