Dialog with our stakeholders
Systematic exchange
We attach importance to a fair and open exchange with all of our company’s essential stakeholder groups. These include clients, employees, investors, and society as a whole.
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We conduct a regular dialog with our stakeholder groups in order to understand what special expectations they place on us as a financial company and to explain our positions. This provides us with important impetus for more sustainability in our business activities. We also learn about new ideas and concepts for practice, and thus promote acceptance for our activities.
In addition to the established regular dialog with our shareholders in conjunction with our investor relations activities and the annual general meeting, our communications with stakeholders follow a strategy consisting of three elements: we plan and organize our own events on important sustainability themes; we participate in sustainability-oriented initiatives and take part in forums and events; and we seek direct debate with individual groups in the case of thematic issues that arise ad hoc and organize our own suitable discussions.
Our commitment 2010/2011
Institutional investors expressed a generally positive opinion of the sustainability commitment of Deutsche Bank. Their feedback is regularly obtained in the course of SRI road shows. In 2010 we conducted intensive exchanges of this type at the financial centers of Paris, London, Washington D.C., and Boston.
The theme of Sustainable Financial Products was the central focus of our dialog event in Berlin. In that context, we discussed new trends in the market surrounding sustainable products with representatives from rating agencies, sustainability experts, and participants from our bank.
Deutsche Bank hosted a stakeholder workshop of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) focusing on the topic of improved integration of social issues into the GRI catalog of indicators. Non-governmental organizations and representatives of companies attended. In 2010 we also took part in the bank dialog to which the non-governmental organization urgewald had issued an invitation. In 2011 we provided the platform for this exchange. In addition, we conducted discussions with national and international organizations such as Greenpeace and BankTrack on issues in the area of nuclear power, controversial weapons systems, agribusiness, oil and gas, as well as mining.
In 2011, we planned to continue the dialog with stakeholder groups. In conjunction with our membership we furthermore hosted the UNEP FI/VfU Roundtable 2011.