01 Our sustainability approach 02 Sustainable investing 03 Active stewardship 04 Corporate sustainability 05 Appendix 02.3 Sustainability methodologies and analytics Principles 2 4 Shaping sustainable pathways towards change AllianzGI Sustainability Insights Engine (SusIE) Leveraging ESG data enables our investment experts to implement innovative sustainable investment approaches. An effective interface is required to allow our investment experts, product specialists, credible firmwide integration of ESG with risk management and other stakeholders. efficient processing of proprietary models, high democratisation of sustainability SusIE is a key enabler of active investment data and consistent embedding of ESG decisions on sustainability across all asset data in investment processes. classes, feeding all front-office tools with Screenshot of ESG Profile > Scores section consistent ESG data. This contributes In 2022, we launched SusIE to enable to our differentiation, leveraging our ESG-informed investment decision making. expertise via a powerful proprietary A wide range of external ESG datasets SusIE is also the main portal to access The digital platform uses state-of-the-art engine that delivers added value to complemented by in-house research proprietary sustainability scores with technology to facilitate mainstream access our clients. Our multi-provider-based strategy for ESG transparent and granular indicators. to a range of ESG data in one place for all data ensures that we benefit from a broad In 2023, SusIE will also distribute in-house spectrum of data inputs. SusIE processes, research – thematic, sector and company computes and transforms data from research – from our sustainability research Screenshot of ESG Profile > more than 10 third-party vendors into and stewardship analysts. External and Dashboard at company level standardised datasets using cloud data internal insights contribute to the real storage. This includes automated checks integration of sustainability in our active of pre- and post-data processing to ensure investment decisions. high quality standards and data integrity across the value chain. Allianz Global Investors Sustainability and Stewardship Report 2022 41