Environmental, Social and Governance

Sustainability-related disclosures

In addition to securing high financial returns, delivering on aspects related to corporate social responsibility and ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance) is an integral part of Argentum’s business activities. This applies to investment decisions, our relations with investments partners, and the company’s own operations.

Key aspects of Argentum’s ESG work:

• Argentum has followed the principles of the UN Global Compact, which we became a member of in 2012, and the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) for several years. In addition to this, Argentum has also prepared and included its own requirements for social responsibility in its investment activities.
• Argentum has performance indicators related to environmental and social responsibility. This applies to our internal goals for the organization and objectives relating to our investment activities.
• Argentum prepares an annual report on Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG). Read the latest report here.

Argentum’s ethical guidelines:

Argentum has prepared a set of ethical guidelines, which can be read in full here.

About jurisdiction:

Argentum will only invest in funds established in jurisdictions which follow the standards of Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, and which have entered into agreements on exchange of information on tax matters with Norway.