Federated Hermes EOS regularly reports to PensionDanmark on listed companies with re-prehensive behavior. In addition, we receive inputs from Sustainanalytics, MSCI and other suppliers about both listed and private companies. For the listed companies, Pension-Danmark and Federated Hermes EOS tries to establish a dialogue in order to influence the companies and change their behavior.
PensionDanmark evaluates companies individually based on their business model and their approach to, for example, climate change, the environment, human rights, and working conditions. On this basis, PensionDanmark assesses and determines which companies will be excluded from PensionDanmark's investment universe.
PensionDanmark has a strict policy to exclude companies, that:
- Are involved in tobacco production
- Are involved in production of anti-personel mines, cluster munitions or chemical weapons
- Are mining corporations with a revenue share of more than 5% from thermal coal mining
- Are mining corporations that starts new extraction of thermal coal
- Are oil and gas companies with a revenue share of more than 5% from oil sands
- Are Russian companies
Companies deviating from PensionDanmark's investment guidelines
| Company | Reason for Exclusion |
| Anhui GreatWall Military Industry | Cluster Munitions (Oslo-Convention) |
| Aryt Industries Ltd. | Cluster Munitions (Oslo-Convention) |
| Aselsan Elektronik Sanayi Ve T | Cluster Munitions (Oslo-Convention) |
| China Aerospace International Holdings | Cluster Munitions (Oslo-Convention) |
| China Spacesat Co. Ltd. | Cluster Munitions (Oslo-Convention) |
| LIG Nex1 co Ltd. | Cluster Munitions (Oslo-Convention) |
| NORINCO International Cooperation | Cluster Munitions (Oslo-Convention) |
| Poongsan Corporation & Poongsan Holdings | Cluster Munitions (Oslo-Convention) |
| United Aircraft Corp. PJSC | Cluster Munitions (Oslo-Convention) |
| Glencore International | Environment and Labour Rights (e.g. ILO Convention 87 and 97) |
| Bank Hapoalim | Human rights |
| Bank Leumi Le-Israel | Human rights |
| Israel Discount Bank | Human rights |
| Mizrahi Tefahot | Human rights |
| E-MART | Labour Rights (e.g. ILO Convention 87 and 97) |
| Walmart og Walmart de Mexico | Labour Rights (e.g. ILO Convention 87 and 97) |
| Wizz Air Holdings | Labour Rights (e.g. ILO Convention 87 and 97) |
| Tesla | Labour Rights (e.g. ILO Convention 87) |
| Kunlun Energy | Low score in in-house oil and gas |
| Saudi Aramcov | Low score in in-house oil and gas/very reprehensible business conduct |
| China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. | Low score in in-house oil and gas/very reprehensible business conduct |
| CNOOC Ltd. | Low score in in-house oil and gas/very reprehensible business conduct |
| Exxon Mobile Corp. | Low score in in-house oil and gas/very reprehensible business conduct |
| NK Rosneft' Pao | Low score in in-house oil and gas/very reprehensible business conduct |
| Oil & Natural Gas Corporation | Low score in in-house oil and gas/very reprehensible business conduct |
| PetroChina Company Ltd. | Low score in in-house oil and gas/very reprehensible business conduct |
| Surgutneftegas Public Jont Stock Company | Low score in in-house oil and gas/very reprehensible business conduct |
| Tatneft' Pao | Low score in in-house oil and gas/very reprehensible business conduct |
| Gazprom | Security risks |
| SBERBANK | Security risks |
| VTB Bank OJSC | Security risks |
| Sasol Ltd. | Significant climate- and environmental risk |
| Strathcona Resources | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| Athabasca Oil Corp. | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| Cenovus Energy Inc. | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| CNOOC Petroleum North America ULC | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| Connacher Oil & Gas Ltd. | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| Husky Energy Inc. | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| Imperial Oil Ltd. | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| MEG Energy Corp. | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| Obsidian Energy Ltd. | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| Petro-Canada | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| Strata Power Corp. | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| Suncor Energy Inc. | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| Sunshine Oil Sands Ltd. | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| ConocoPhillips | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| Greenfire Limited Resources | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| International Petroleum Corporation (IPC) | Significant revenue from oil sands |
| Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) | Significant revenue from oil sands |
Furthermore, PensionDanmark does not invest in tobacco producers. PensionDanmark also excludes significant thermal coal production (more than 5% of revenue) as well as new thermal coal mining from the investment universe, partly because of economic reasons as this is considered an obsolete technology for producing energy. In addition, PensionDanmark excludes Russian companies where the state has decisive influence, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
PensionDanmark excludes tobacco, thermal coal, oil sands and controversial weapons from the investment universe across all asset classes, including for unlisted companies.
Latest update: February 2024