Best practice
We strive for global best practice across our management, governance and reporting functions.
Santiago Principles
We assess our performance against the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF)'s Santiago Principles annually.
The Santiago Principles are a set of 24 voluntary IFSWF guidelines that assign best practices for the operations of sovereign wealth funds. The Principles recognise that it is important for sovereign wealth funds to demonstrate to their home countries, to the countries in which they are invested and to the international financial markets in general that they are properly established and that their investments are made on a purely economic basis.
The Santiago Principles monitor three important areas of operational practice for sovereign wealth funds - legal framework, institutional framework and governance framework, along with investment policies and risk management.
Environmental impact
We are Toitū carbonzero certified. To achieve certification, an organisation must measure its operational greenhouse gas emissions, develop a carbon reduction plan and offset its unavoidable emissions through high quality carbon credits. These credits support projects meeting specified standards to store, avoid or reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
We are committed to offsetting our carbon emissions going forward and will work to lower our emissions intensity year on year as part of our broader strategy to understand and manage the environmental impact of our activities. We see this as consistent with our obligation to carry out our mandate as a responsible member of the world community.
Each year we measure the greenhouse gas emissions for the corporate activities of the Guardians and publish them in our Annual Reports, which are verified to the Toitū carbonzero certification requirements. These requirements meet and exceed the requirement of ISO 14064-1:2006.
International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds
New Zealand is a member country of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF), a voluntary group of sovereign wealth funds established under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund.
The IFSWF's goals are for sovereign wealth funds to:
- help maintain a stable global financial system and free flow of capital and investment;
- comply with all applicable regulatory and disclosure requirements in the countries in which they invest;
- invest on the basis of economic and financial risk and return-related considerations; and
- have in place a transparent and sound governance structure that provides for adequate operational controls, risk management and accountability.