Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

AQR is committed to helping our clients achieve their ESG goals. We seek to integrate ESG in both our asset selection and ownership decisions, which are guided by the responsible investment framework we collaborated with the UN PRI to create and are overseen by our ESG Steering Committee.

Responsible Asset Selection

AQR has used ESG-related signals in our investment models since inception in 1998; we believe that incorporating such signals provides a more holistic view of a given company. 

Responsible Ownership

Transparency is a primary focus of AQR’s stewardship activities, and our engagement is undertaken at the firm level. We engage directly with portfolio companies on a number of issues, both proactively (engaging with our top firmwide holdings with current ESG concerns, in the interest of greater transparency and disclosure) and reactively (selective engagement with portfolio company management on certain proxy issues). We also partner with peers and clients on issues that we feel are best addressed through collaborative engagement and pursue research into other areas where active ownership may exert positive influence on corporate transparency and disclosure of ESG issues.

AQR employees publish frequently on ESG. Explore over 20 years of ESG-related insights on aqr.com. 

ESG at AQR

In this video introduction, we discuss the basics of ESG investing and how we incorporate ESG information into our strategies at AQR.

 

A responsible investment framework from AQR and UN PRI: 

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