ESG

Stewardship

PGIM Quant is committed to being active stewards within the investment industry. Our stewardship platform includes company engagements, proxy voting, and collaborative industry engagements.

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PGIM Quant aims to fulfil its stewardship responsibilities to further improve outcomes for the portfolios we manage for our clients. Stewardship is leveraged to address sustainability attributes such as climate, water usage, human rights, and other systemic sustainability issues, which are a focus of our stewardship objectives across various engagement approaches.

Engagement Overview

 

We believe it’s possible to proactively encourage companies to address material risks that they face and/or that do not align with best practices that have been shown to increase shareholder value.

 

Learn more about our Material Risk Engagement – 2024 Annual Report and 2024 Q4 Report.

 

The ESG portfolio construction process does not apply to all portfolios/strategies.

Proxy Voting Overview

 

As a responsible investor and fiduciary, PGIM Quant's policy is to vote proxies in the best long-term economic interests of our clients.

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Collaboration & Reporting

 

We are dedicated to promoting ESG investment principles within the investment industry and maintaining the highest standards of transparency and communication.

Social Responsibility

 

PGIM Quant’s commitment to social and corporate responsibility extends to our pledge to ensure diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace to honor the power of people.

PGIM QUANT'S UN PRI SCORECARD AND REPORTS

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Policy Governance and Strategy

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Direct - Listed Equity - Active Quantitative

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Confidence Building Measures

Read our UNPRI assessment and transparency reports below:

UN PRI ASSESSMENT REPORT

UN PRI TRANSPARENCY REPORT

Proxy Voting results

Proxy voting metrics in tabular format for year 2024 Period: Jan 01, 2024 through Dec 31, 2024. Source: PGIM Quantitative Solutions, Glass Lewis

Shareholder meetings

Shareholder meetings illustrated as bar charts across five categories

 Key to Voting Results, Displays & Examples of Categories

  • Clients that do not want to vote in certain markets due to confidentiality issues (e.g., not wanting to vote in registration/beneficial owner disclosure markets)
  • Client accounts that do not vote in certain markets due to high costs of power of attorney registration
  • ‘Share blocking’ markets where we choose not to vote so shares are not ‘tied up’ and prevented from being traded
  • Any Russian security that is listed on the OFAC sanctions list
  • Includes situations where there may be multiple client voting policies and voting groups where one policy or group can vote on a proposal in one manner (e.g., “TNA”) while the others may vote in a different manner (e.g., “For”)
  • Pertains to votes on the “Frequency of Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation,” and correspond to the time period that defines the “frequency.”

Examples of Category Types

  • Size, Term Length
  • Election of Directors
  • Advisory Votes on Executive Compensation
  • Advisory Votes on Severance
  • Director Fees
  • Reporting on Environmental Issues 
  • Report/Action on Climate Change
  • Report on Company Sustainability
  • Board Independence 
  • Composition of Board 
  • Elimination of Supermajority Powers 
  • Firearms
  • Drug Pricing/Distribution 
  • Reporting on Political Spending