Voya Financial Releases 2019/2020 Impact Report: Resilience and Renewal

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), announced today that it has published its 2019/2020 Impact Report, which reinforces the company’s values as it relates to serving its people, clients and communities. This year’s report also focuses on the unique actions the company took in the wake of unprecedented challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and issues of racial injustice.

“We recognize that our culture of corporate responsibility that we have fostered and nurtured during the past several years prepared us for the uncertainty that COVID-19 brought to the business landscape,” said Voya Financial Chairman and CEO Rodney O. Martin, Jr. “Our values — and a CR strategy that focuses on empowering our people, serving our clients responsibly, investing in our communities, and protecting the environment — serve as the foundation for our actions and practices.”

The title of this year’s report — Resilience and Renewal — underscores the character of Voya’s employees and its enterprise. In the midst of these extraordinary times, Voya’s resilience enabled the company to operate exceptionally in an environment where rules and dynamics changed abruptly. Voya’s corporate values come to life through its employees’ words and deeds, which fuel the company’s continued progress in its Corporate Responsibility (CR) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance.

The report looks at the how Voya addresses the CR issues that are most important to its employees, clients, communities and other key stakeholders. Highlights include:

• How Voya is empowering its leaders to drive diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the workplace;
• An overview of Voya’s support for clients during the COVID-19 pandemic;
• Voya’s philanthropic work in support of greater educator racial/ethnic representation;
• A look at Voya’s efforts to protect the environment and minimize its impact;
• How Voya is advancing disability and special needs inclusion; and
• A review of Voya’s 2020 ESG Commitments that have been achieved.

The report was prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards: Core Option and a digital copy can be found on Voya.com.

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 $7.5 billion in revenue in 2019. The company had $606 billion in total assets under management and administration as of June 30, 2020. With a clear mission to make a secure financial future possible — one person, one family, one institution at a time — Voya’s vision is to be America’s Retirement Company^®. Certified as a “Great Place to Work” by the Great Place to Work^® Institute, Voya is equally committed to conducting business in a way that is socially, environmentally, economically and ethically responsible. Voya has been recognized as a 2020 World’s Most Admired Company by Fortune magazine; one of the 2020 World’s Most Ethical Companies^® by the Ethisphere Institute; as a member of the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index; and as a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” on the Disability Equality Index by Disability:IN. For more information, visit voya.com. Follow Voya Financial on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter @Voya.

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