Embedding nutrition in financial markets

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. Investor signatories use our Indexes and reports in their ESG research, investment analysis and engagement.

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ATNi Investor Expectations

FTSE Russell, ISS, S&P Global CSA, and the ISSB now use ATNi indicators and data in their ratings, or are piloting them for scale-up. Other organizations also draw on ATNi’s data in their work with responsible investors, including ShareAction and the Food Foundation.

At N4G Paris in March 2025, ATNi mobilized seven investors who together manage over $1 trillion in assets under management (AUM), to require disclosures from 23 of the publicly listed food and beverage manufacturers assessed in ATNi’s Global Index 2024 using a government endorsed nutrient profile model.

ATNi has a dedicated investor support team that helps investors and signatories to the Investor Expectations with integrating nutrition into their investment processes and responsible investment activities. Please reach out to investor.support@atni.org if you are interested in any of the following activities:

• 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

• The development of research to help build the case for nutrition as a material issue for industry, such as the Materiality of Nutrition report (cont.)
• Publicizing via our website and social media the work of the investor signatories to amplify their own communications
• Facilitating collaborative investor engagement with companies ranked in our Indexes and publishing engagement analysis reports
• 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

ATNi’s Investor Expectations were published in July 2020, following consultations with institutional investors. They are a framework to interpret ATNi’s indexes to support 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@atni.org. There is no fee, and no reporting requirements associated with becoming a signatory. 

ATNi Investor Expectations
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Institutional investors can play a significant role in shaping food and beverage companies’ nutrition governance, strategy, and disclosure. As nutrition becomes more integrated into responsible and sustainable investment analysis, investors are increasingly assessing companies’ product portfolios and their performance in addressing global nutrition challenges.

The report Institutional Investors’ Approaches to Addressing Nutrition, Diets, and Health by ATNI highlights eight different case studies of investors using ATNi data to integrate nutrition into their investment approaches.

Investor Approaches to Nutrition

Investors are a key stakeholder in driving food systems transformation. One important way in which they can drive change is by using their role as shareholders to collaboratively engage with food & beverage companies. ATNi supports investors in their collaborative engagements with companies assessed in our Global Indexes and in-country assessments, including the US Index 2022, UK Retailer Index 2022, and the India Index 2023.

Collaborative engagement led by ATNi’s Investors in Nutrition and Health complements ATNi’s direct engagement with companies.

Together, these processes help to drive positive change in companies’ nutrition policies, disclosures and practices, with changes captured in ensuing Index cycles.

ATNi publishes Collaborative Engagement Reports which detail the engagement process and results.

2021-23 Engagement Analysis Report
2018-20 Engagement Analysis Report

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