Environmental

ESG criteria can help people make better-informed spending and investing decisions by providing transparency into a company’s operations, including its ethical impact and sustainability practices. Increased investor and consumer focus on ESG can in turn help companies understand the role they play in shaping the ecological, social, and economic future of our society.
Allianz SE, the parent company of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life®), aims to lead the industry in integrating ESG factors into their insurance and investment businesses. All ESG integration activities are implemented through company-wide corporate rules on risk management, underwriting, and investment. To learn more about Allianz SE’s approach to ESG, please visit Our ESG approach.
For Allianz Investment Management LLC (AIM) – the investment arm of Allianz Life – ESG is an integral factor behind our corporate citizenship and an important component of the investment platform for AIM across the globe.
AIM’s commitment to ESG investing helps support Allianz Life’s position as a strong and well-capitalized company with the stability to meet our financial obligations. In addition to promoting sustainability, AIM’s focus on ESG also benefits our ability to asses both risks and opportunities in our investment portfolio.
Allianz Life developed the ESG Investor Sentiment Study* to discover how typical U.S. investors feel about ESG topics, and what the future of ESG investing may hold.
Although much of the global attention within the ESG sector of investing has been placed on the environmental component, the study revealed that in the U.S., social and governance issues are equally important as – or more important than – environmental record when consumers decide whether or not to invest in or do business with a company. Furthermore, the study found that a company’s ESG profile plays a significant role in its overall reputation, as a majority of consumers believe companies focused on ESG issues have better long-term prospects.