Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP)

Our story ShareAction AODP brings together an outstanding track record of carrying out climate-related investor analysis built over the years by the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) and ShareAction’s mission of unleashing the positive potential of the mainstream investment system. It has been operating in its current shape since June 2017, when ShareAction announced an agreement to take over AODP, with the aim of taking the project to the next level using its reputation, expertise, and experience to push the global financial system for greater action on climate change. ShareAction AODP builds on strong foundations established over 10 years of ranking the world’s largest pension funds, insurers, sovereign wealth funds and endowments. As the only comprehensive, climate-specific, independent, non-self-selective assessment, it prides itself on being the world’s benchmark of climate leadership in the investment system. We have developed an assessment framework that is fully aligned with the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations, and applied it successfully in evaluating investors’ responsible investment practices in the light of a changing climate. Looking to further integrate ShareAction’s ambitious vision of a future where all finance powers social progress into our work, we are now expanding the scope of our survey to include biodiversity loss and human and labour rights. Diversified in scope and global in its outreach, the ShareAction AODP 2019 asset manager survey will be the first of its kind internationally. Our principles To ensure that at ShareAction AODP our work remains of the highest quality and has profound and lasting impact, we adhere to the following principles: Knowledge– we view deep understanding of the investment market as key to ensuring our survey questions and topics are relevant; Engagement– we engage with a range of stakeholders in relation to the benchmark design, its scoring methodology and follow-up engagement; Verification– we have developed a public and fair scoring process with verification of the results; Governance– our governance structure ensures that we are independent from the survey respondents; Advocacy– the benchmark is used as a tool to encourage improvement across a range of organisations; Trends– we publish repeated benchmark editions that encourage improvement and build engagement over time; Collaboration– in our work with partners we use the survey to challenge the participants, but also, importantly, to enable them to improve.