Just Group signs Asset Owner Diversity Charter

Written by Adam Cadle

27/09/2022

Just Group has become a signatory to the Asset Owner Diversity Charter (AODC) joining 21 other signatories with combined AuM of over £1trn.

Just Group has also joined 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, Just Group is commited to holding its 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.”

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