Aegon

Assessment year: 2017

Total score 
2 out of 5
Awareness, understanding and intent 
2 out of 5
Commodity 
2 out of 5
Scope 
4 out of 5
Implementation, monitoring and reporting 
2 out of 5

Assessment year: 2016

Total score 
3 out of 5
Overall forest policy 
2 out of 5
Policy strength 
3 out of 5
Reporting and transparency 
4 out of 5
Financial institution type 
Asset manager, Insurance company
HQ 
Netherlands

Collective commitments

Banking Environment Initiative member
No
New York Declaration on Forests signatory
No

150 Financial institutions

Investors and lenders need to adopt and implement environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria that ensure their investments are not funding deforestation. For analysis of how the financial sector is performing click here.

This assessment has been carried out following the assessment methodology developed for the Forest 500 project.

Profile 

Aegon are an insurance company based in the Netherlands serving private, commercial and institutional customers. Their services include life insurance, pensions, and asset management. As of 2017, Aegon manage a combined value of 840 billion EUR of investments, including more than 325 billion EUR in assets under management. They are one of the top 20 bondholders for Forest 500 companies, with approximately 2 billion USD worth of bonds for companies across a broad range of forest risk sectors.

Other financial institutions

HSBC Holdings Ltd.

Score
4 out of 5

Westpac

Score
4 out of 5

Deutsche Bank

Score
4 out of 5

ING Groep N.V.

Score
4 out of 5

UBS AG

Score
4 out of 5

BNP Paribas

Score
4 out of 5

Disclaimer

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