Voya Financial Named to Dow Jones Sustainability Index for Fifth Consecutive Year
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA) announced that it has been named to the 2020 Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). This is the fifth consecutive year that Voya has earned this recognition.
Launched in 1999, the DJSI represents the gold standard for corporate sustainability and is the first global index to track the leading sustainability-driven companies based on financially material economic, environmental and social factors and S&P DJSI’s robust index methodology. Of the 33 companies in the diversified financial services industry invited to disclose data for the 2020 DJSI North America, only eight were selected for inclusion in the index.
“Voya Financial is proud to earn this distinguished honor for the fifth consecutive year,” said Chairman and CEO Rodney O. Martin, Jr. “Our continued inclusion in this prestigious index reflects our conscious — and continuous — effort to integrate sustainable and ethical business practices across all aspects of our company. This recognition also underscores investors’ increasing interest in companies’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices.”
Voya scored in the 90th percentile, five points above the average for North America. The company scored highly in a number of key focus areas, including corporate governance, customer relationship management, information security, policy influence, privacy protection, environmental reporting and human capital development.
More information about the Dow Jones' Sustainability Indices is available at https://www.spglobal.com/esg/csa/indices/djsi-index-family.
About Voya Financial®
Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), helps Americans plan, invest and protect their savings — to get ready to retire better. Serving the financial needs of approximately 13.8 million individual and institutional customers in the United States, Voya is a Fortune 500 company that had
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