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Our Approach to Responsible Investment

This document sets out RBC GAM’s overall approach to responsible investment. This includes the methods we use in our environmental, social, and governance (ESG) integration, our stewardship activities, and our reporting.1 It also include details on specific ESG issues, such as our approach to climate change, human rights and governance.

 

Proxy Voting Guidelines

Proxy voting is a key part of our active stewardship process as it provides an important way for us to convey our views to boards and management. We make our voting decisions independently, in accordance with our custom Proxy Voting Guidelines.

Sustainable finance disclosure regulation

Find documents related to the E.U. Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). 

Sustainability related disclosures

Reports

Proxy voting resources

Shareholders of a company have the right to vote on certain aspects of the company's business, such as the election of the company's directors and the appointment of auditors. A proxy is the document that companies send to shareholders to get their voting instructions.

Equity portfolios hold shares of companies and are entitled to exercise the voting rights attached to those shares. Fixed income portfolios may also have an opportunity to vote by proxy on bondholder resolutions, or where an allocation may include formal voting rights.

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1. Certain investment strategies, asset classes, exposure and security types do not integrate ESG factors, including but not limited to money market, buy-and maintain, passive, and certain third-party sub-advised strategies or certain currency or derivative instruments. Different strategies that integrate ESG factors will be at varying stages of implementation. Please read a fund's prospectus or offering memorandum for further details.

2. In 2023, RBC GAM consolidated the activities of two regulated legal entities in the United Kingdom (UK), RBC GAM-UK and BlueBay Asset Management LLP (BlueBay), into RBC GAM-UK. Signatory status falls under the RBC Global Asset Management’s (RBC GAM) group membership as of April 2023 onwards and is not related to funds. Up until this period, both RBC GAM and its affiliate, BlueBay Asset Management LLP (BlueBay) were signatories (signatory year being 2015 for RBC GAM, and 2013 for BlueBay). Both entities separately filed annual transparency reports (where RBC GAM’s one included affiliates RBC Global Asset Management (UK) and BlueBay). With the merger of RBC Global Asset Management (UK) and BlueBay in April 2023, BlueBay’s separate PRI signatory status has lapsed (including its annual reporting obligations).

3. In 2023, RBC GAM consolidated the activities of two regulated legal entities in the United Kingdom (UK), RBC GAM-UK and BlueBay Asset Management LLP (BlueBay), into RBC GAM-UK. BlueBay has not filed a separate 2023 Annual Stewardship Report. BlueBay’s stewardship activities are incorporated throughout RBC GAM’s 2023 Annual Stewardship Report.