ATNI's Investors in Nutrition and Health
As shareholders and bondholders of most of the companies rated on our Indexes, institutional investors have the potential to drive substantial change in these companies’ commitments, practices and disclosure on nutrition.
This is why ATNI works extensively with the investment community to ensure that our Indexes are designed to provide them with the in-depth information they need on companies’ performance on nutrition not available from any other source. Investors can then use our Indexes and reports in their ESG research, investment analysis and engagement.
Investor Expectations on Nutrition, Diets and Health
On July 1st 2020, ATNI released the Investor Expectations on Nutrition, Diets and Health. These Expectations have been created in consultation with institutional investors. We have developed them to support and spur greater investor engagement with companies to address global nutrition challenges and deliver the Sustainable Development Goals.
Signatories to the Investor Expectations will have access to the Investor portal – a password-protected nutrition and finance resource hub – and ATNI’s expertise and support for their research and engagement.
If you are interested in becoming a signatory and pledging your support for ATNI’s work, please contact investor.support@accesstonutrition.org. There is no fee.
Become a signatory- Ensuring you are kept up-to-date about developments in nutrition relevant to investment
- Providing and developing materials to support your engagement with companies, e.g. questions to use with Investor Expectations, best-practice examples
- Access to ATNI research analysts
- Facilitating collaborative investor engagement with companies ranked in our Indexes and publishing engagement analysis reports
2018-20 Engagement Analysis Report
2021-23 Engagement Analysis Report
- Publicising via our website and social media the work of the investor signatories to amplify their own communications
- Communicating investor and finance sector perspectives at nutrition events and conferences
- Growing the signatory base
- Maintaining the Investor Portal on the website, with relevant materials, news and links to our work and that of other relevant organisations
Investors at the Tokyo N4G Summit
The Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit was held in Tokyo in December 2021 and was hosted by the Government of Japan.
Ahead of this important event, ATNI expanded its investor signatory base to include investors from Japan. Several materials have been translated and developed in Japanese:
Introduction to ATNI in Japanese
Japanese article: investment case for nutrition
ESG Narrative: Access to Nutrition Initiative
Investor Expectations on Nutrition, Diets and Health
Based on the framework of the Investor Expectations, the N4G Investor Pledge was developed. With this Pledge, 53 institutional investors representing US$12.4 trillion in assets under management commit to use the Expectations and to directly engage with all publicly listed companies in the Global Index 2021 on the topic of nutrition. Progress towards the Pledge will be monitored by ATNI.
Read the N4G Investor Pledge in English
Read the N4G Investor Pledge in Japanese
The Pledge was officially announced during Day 1 of the N4G Summit by Akihiko Nishioka, President and CEO of Resona Asset Management.
Watch the presentation of the N4G Investor Pledge
Following the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth in December 2021, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan compiled a report to serve as a guide of material ESG issues for the food and beverage sector. The report has been written by Mitsubishi UFJ Research & Consulting, with input from the Food industry and ESG Investment review committee. The report is made up of the following sections and profiles ATNI as one of many organizations focusing on ESG issues central to the food and beverage industry:
- Environmental & Social issues that the food industry companies need to be aware of;
- Status of global investors action on ESG issues, disclosure regulations, and ESG evaluation initiatives;
- Local and global company action examples;
- Challenges and suggested solutions to further progress action in the food industry.
Read a summary of the report in English
Read the full report in Japanese
Collaborative engagement
Many ATNI investor signatories participate in the collaborative engagement facilitated by ATNI following each Index release. The aim of the engagement is to persuade the companies rated by ATNI to improve their performance on nutrition and demonstrate their positive impact on consumers’ health by improving their products and business practices. Historically, collaborative engagement was managed by the Co-Chairs of ATNI’s Investor Working Group and run by the investors.
An evaluation of the 2018-2019 collaborative engagement program proposed that ATNI substantially increase the support it provides to investor signatories for collaborative engagement, to reduce the burden on signatories. It also recommended that ATNI establish an investor portal – a password-protected hub of nutrition and investor relevant materials, reports and news. ATNI has implemented these recommendations. Additionally, all signatories have access to the ATNI research team to drill down further into company analysis and data, on request.
Investors in Nutrition and Health
Below you can see the updated list of the investor signatories that have signed up to ATNI's Investor Expectations on Diets, Nutrition and Health. USD 20 trillion AUM (last updated in September 2023).
| 1 | Aberdeen Standard Investments | UK |
| 2 | Abakkus Asset Manager | IN |
| 3 | Achmea Investment Management | NL |
| 4 | Aikya Investment Management | UK |
| 5 | Allianz Global Investors | DE |
| 6 | Alquity Investment Management | UK |
| 7 | AMP Capital | AU |
| 8 | Amundi | FR |
| 9 | Apostle Funds Management | AU |
| 10 | Arisaig Partners | SG |
| 11 | Australian Ethical Investment | AU |
| 12 | Aviva | UK |
| 13 | AXA Investments | FR |
| 14 | BancoPosta Fondi Sgr | IT |
| 15 | BNP Paribas Investment Partners | FR |
| 16 | Boston Common Asset Management | US |
| 17 | Boston Trust Walden | US |
| 18 | Calvert | US |
| 19 | Candriam Investors Group | FR |
| 20 | Cardano | NL |
| 21 | CBF Church of England Fund | UK |
| 22 | CCLA Investment Management | UK |
| 23 | Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church | UK |
| 24 | Church Commissioners for England | UK |
| 25 | Church of England Pensions Board | UK |
| 26 | Columbia Threadneedle Investments | US |
| 27 | Cometa | IT |
| 28 | CommonSpirit Health | US |
| 29 | Coöperatie VGZ | NL |
| 30 | CZ Group | NL |
| 31 | DNB Asset Management | NO |
| 32 | Domini Social Investments | US |
| 33 | DSP Asset Managers | IN |
| 34 | EdenTree Investment Management | UK |
| 35 | Epworth Investment Management | UK |
| 36 | EQ Investors | UK |
| 37 | Ethical Partners Fund Management | AU |
| 38 | Ethos Foundation | CH |
| 39 | Everence and the Praxis Mutual Funds | US |
| 40 | Fukoku Capital Management, Inc. | JP |
| 41 | Friends Fiduciary Corporation | US |
| 42 | GAM Investments | CH |
| 43 | Globalance | CH |
| 44 | Guy’s and St. Thomas’s Charity Endowment Fund | UK |
| 45 | Hermes EOS | UK |
| 46 | Hexavest | CA |
| 47 | ICCR | US |
| 48 | Impax Asset Management | UK |
| 49 | J Safra Sarasin | CH |
| 50 | JLens | US |
| 51 | KLP Kapitlalforvaltning | NO |
| 52 | LGIM | UK |
| 53 | Lion Trust | UK |
| 54 | Local Authority Pension Fund Forum | UK |
| 55 | Local Government Super | AU |
| 56 | Longview Partners | UK |
| 57 | Mercy Investment Services | US |
| 58 | Mirova | FR |
| 59 | MUFG Asset Management | JP |
| 60 | NEI Investments | CA |
| 61 | Ocean Dial Asset Management | UK |
| 62 | Nomura Asset Management | JP |
| 63 | Pax World Management | US |
| 64 | Pictet Group | CH |
| 65 | PIMCO | US |
| 66 | PosteVita | IT |
| 67 | Quantum | IN |
| 68 | Rathbones Greenbank | UK |
| 69 | Resona Asset Management | JP |
| 70 | Robeco | NL |
| 71 | RRSE – Le Regroupement pour la Responsabilité Sociale des Entreprises | CA |
| 72 | Sarasin & Partners | CH |
| 73 | Schroders | UK |
| 74 | Seventh Generation Interfaith | US |
| 75 | Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia | US |
| 76 | Socially Responsible Investment Coalition | US |
| 77 | Stichting Pensioenfonds Huisartsen | NL |
| 78 | Storebrand | NO |
| 79 | T. Rowe Price | US |
| 80 | The Health Foundation | UK |
| 81 | Trillium Asset Management | US |
| 82 | Trinity Health | US |
| 83 | Triodos Investment Management | NL |
| 84 | Trusteam Finance | FR |
| 85 | UBS Asset Management | GLOBAL |
| 86 | Unicredit Pension Fund | IT |
| 87 | Vancity Investment Management | CA |