Objectives

To provide its members with an operational tool that complements their own efforts to match their financial practices with their common values in order to promote a form of development that includes economic viability, good governance, social equity and respect for the environment.
To take positions on ESG issues via the exercise of voting rights and/or the initiation of long-term dialogue in order to encourage the companies in which the members own shares to improve their practices in these areas.
To make use of other members’ national knowledge and expertise in order to improve their own knowledge about companies, particularly foreign ones, and to facilitate their voting abroad as well as their participation in international activities regarding subjects or laws with which they are not necessarily familiar.
To promote a more efficient utilisation of the resources available in each organisation through obtaining economies of scale that enable the members to expand and develop their promotional activities.