The past year was another active year for us as we continued with our work to further our responsibility targets. Integrating responsibility work in our day-to-day activities is crucial and has been entrusted as the task of every Veritas employee.
January
February
- The equality and non-discrimination plan 2024 – 2025 was completed.
March
- We drew up our Green Office annual report and set our targets for 2024.
- We organised a theme week on customer experience.
April
- We published our Corporate Responsibility Report for the year 2023.
- We joined the CDP Non-Disclosure campaign once again.
May
- Our headquarters passed the WWF Green Office audit.
- We got our stakeholders involved and defined the essential sustainability themes for Veritas.
- We organised an online GDPR course for all personnel.
June
- We reported to PRI on our responsible investment activities.
- We updated our principles of leadership.
- We sent Oikotie’s Responsible Workplace Survey to all personnel.
July
August
- We organised an online compliance course for all personnel.
September
- AI training was initiated for all personnel.
- We organised a responsible co-worker theme week at the office.
October
November
- In the Responsible Workplace competition organised by Oikotie, Veritas came out on top in the category for small and medium-sized organisations.
- We received excellent scores in PRI’s responsible investment assessment.
- Our portfolio manager participated in the climate change panel at the annual seminar of Finland’s Sustainable Investment Forum (Finsif).
- We organised a Hoxhunt security awareness course for all personnel.
December
- We conducted an ESG survey among our asset managers as a means of establishing how various responsibility factors are being taken into consideration within investment activities.
- The in-house rules on feedback dialogue at Veritas were completed.
Veritas’ money flows 2024
Stakeholder collaboration
Our key stakeholders comprise our customers and beneficiaries, personnel, public authorities, labour market organisations, industry organisations, media, non-governmental organisations, partners and investment objects. Typical avenues for interaction include, for instance, meetings, gatherings, training sessions, websites and social media, various publications, along with seminars and webinars.
We collaborate closely with the advocacy organizations in our field. For instance, we participate in the working groups of the Finnish Pension Alliance TELA, representing pension insurers, as well as Finance Finland (FA), representing the financial sector in Finland. We also interact with various non-governmental organisations, such as WWF Finland.
Within the sphere of responsible investment, we collaborate with other investors through various investor initiatives and communities. These are discussed in more detail in the Responsible Investment section of this report.
The cornerstone of our stakeholder collaboration is active and regular dialogue with our stakeholders and we aim to communicate with our stakeholders on corporate responsibility openly and transparently. We also conduct regular stakeholder surveys.