As a responsible asset manager and pioneer in Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) since 1996, and as a signatory (2006) of the UN-PRI, Candriam engages with companies in order to raise their awareness about ESG issues.
Amongst industries, the metals and mining sector is responsible for a large part of man-made greenhouse gas emissions in Australia and globally; not only directly, but especially through the end uses of its products after extraction and sale. BHP is one of the world’s largest mining conglomerates, and one of Australia’s largest corporations.
Teleperformance is a global leader in digitally integrated business services, including call centers or web platforms, with employees in 80 countries. As a service business, it is people-driven, growing to 330,000 employees and €5 billion in revenues over 40 years. Headquartered in France, its largest perations are in EMEA, India, the Philippines, the United States, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.
This controversial activity policy is the concrete expression of Candriam’s sustainability leadership. It defines which activities, due to their widely recognised ethical and economic unsustainability, are to be excluded from Candriam’s investment portfolios across asset classes.
Candriam recognises the important role that asset managers play in tackling major global issues, such as health and climate change, and strives to be at the forefront of sustainability by advancing its policies and practices.
In this report, SRI team analysed and scored 123 countries in terms of how sustainably they manage their Human, Natural, Social and Economic Capital.
74 countries were categorised as investible and 49 were categorised as non investible.
Investing for tomorrow.
Socially Responsible Investment holds a key place in the strategic position and philosophy of Candriam.
Socially Responsible Investment holds a key place in the strategic position and philosophy of Candriam.
Socially Responsible Investment holds a key place in the strategic position and philosophy of Candriam.
The goal of CANDRIAM’s proprietary controversial activity screening process is to assess a company’s involvement in one or more controversial activities and to decide on the acceptability of the inclusion of such companies in an investment portfolio.
Topics
Highlighted
Authors
Resources
Article 173
