Integration

For our direct investments in investee companies, we analyse how topics such as climate change, biodiversity loss, or weak labour rights could affect companies and how they manage these risks. This ESG assessment is reflected in our proprietary ESG risk score and is integrated into our decision-making process. It helps us select investments that are better positioned for the long term, from both a risk and opportunity perspective. For investments through funds and strategies managed by third parties, we determine the level of ESG integration through our annual ESG questionnaire sent to fund managers.

ESG integration and ESG data
For the direct investments in investee companies, we employ a proprietary ESG Risk Score approach for individual companies. This score combines rating information of external ESG data providers with our own views. We incorporate these ESG factors into our investment decision-making process. The ESG data assessment includes factors such as emissions reporting, science-based targets, net-zero ambitions and human rights violations and governance. The above assessment includes enhanced focus on carbon emissions and corporate governance factors. links directly to our own net zero goals.

Sustainable Spectrum Methodology
We apply the Sustainable Spectrum framework to determine where an investment solution sits in terms of the applied responsible investment principles . The categorisation of funds and solutions through this framework helps us offer funds to clients in line with their beliefs and sustainability preferences. Applied exclusions and ESG integration - based on the annual ESG questionnaire that we receive from fund managers - determine the category of the fund.

 

In 2025, we categorised 352 internally and externally managed funds according to our Sustainability Spectrum methodology, representing over 57% of Van Lanschot Kempen AuM. Of these funds, as a percentage of scored AuM, 1% were categorised as ‘Basic’ and 59% as ‘Avoid harm’. 37% of the screened assets were invested in ‘Do Better’ sustainable investment solutions and 3% in ‘Do Good’