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.

ATNI Investor Expectations

Become a signatory
ATNI supports Investors in Nutrition and Health by:
  • 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

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:

  1. Environmental & Social issues that the food industry companies need to be aware of;
  2. Status of global investors action on ESG issues, disclosure regulations, and ESG evaluation initiatives;
  3. Local and global company action examples;
  4. 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

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.

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, representing over USD 21 trillion AUM (last updated in September 2024).

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 Sanso IS FR
73 Sarasin & Partners CH
74 Schroders UK
75 Seventh Generation Interfaith US
76 Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia US
77 Socially Responsible Investment Coalition US
78 Stichting Pensioenfonds Huisartsen NL
79 Storebrand NO
80 T. Rowe Price US
81 The Health Foundation UK
82 Trillium Asset Management US
83 Trinity Health US
84 Triodos Investment Management NL
85 Trusteam Finance FR
86 UBS Asset Management GLOBAL
87 Unicredit Pension Fund IT
88 Vancity Investment Management CA

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.

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