ABP strives to realize the investment returns for its 2.9 million participants in a responsible and sustainable manner. Therefore the fund has introduced a new vision on responsible investing in the fall of 2015 and subsequently developed a new investment policy. This will see the fund switch from a policy of exclusion to a policy of inclusion. The inclusion policy entails that individual investments are consciously included in the investment portfolio based on criteria of responsibility and sustainability, next to the standard criteria of return, risk and costs.

Such a switch from a policy of exclusion to a policy of inclusion however does not take place overnight, considering that ABP’s portfolio of listed stock consists of around 5000 companies. In the coming years ABP will re-evaluate and decide which listed companies make for responsible and sustainable investments and will therefore be included in its investment portfolio. In that process of re-evaluation several external sources of information will be used. The list that has been compiled by Danwatch will be one of those sources