Investment - Articles - Just Group signs Asset Owner Diversity Charter

 Just Group also joins the AODC working group which is tasked with identifying the priorities and targets that will drive the Charter towards meeting its strategic objectives

 As signatories to the AODC, the retirement specalist Just Group commits to holding their investment managers to account on the subject of diversity and inclusion, and the Charter’s standards will form part of the Group’s manager selection and monitoring process.

 The Charter has two key components:
 • the asset manager diversity and inclusion questionnaire, which aims to standardise complex diversity metrics and improve disclosure; and
 • the asset owner charter toolkit, a supporting document to the questionnaire, which covers critical topics such as manager monitoring and selection.

 Nimisha Sodha, Responsible Investment Lead at Just Group, said: “We are very pleased to join this important initiative that sets out to challenge our industry to push further, and advance faster towards becoming a more diverse sector.”

 Helen Price, Co-Chair of the Asset Owners Diversity Working Group at Brunel Pension Partnership Limited, said: “A balanced workforce is good for business – it is good for consumers, for profitability, for workplace culture and leads to better investment decisions.”