Making a Difference

Responsible Investment Report 2020

Jean Raby, CEO, introduces Natixis Investment Managers’ inaugural Responsible Investment Report titled ‘Making A Difference’

Natixis Investment Managers’ 2020 Responsible Investment Report explains our approach to ESG and sustainable investing. It also outlines the processes that our 20+ affiliates use to integrate ESG into their investment decisions. And it highlights our latest thinking on a number of key challenges we face as a responsible investor. Fundamentally, we believe responsible investment can make a difference. It can help identify risk. And it can drive financial performance.1 It can even achieve positive social and environmental change. To do all this, however, asset managers must be clear in their approach – and clear in their purpose and objectives.

26trillion

Since 2010, $2.6 trillion (€2.4 trillion) has been invested in low-carbon energy – equivalent to the combined market cap of Apple and Microsoft.*

97 percent

79% of Affiliates regularly engage with companies in which they invest.†

93 percent

93% of Affiliates have policies governing their approach to engagement, voting and /or proxy voting.†

nearly 85%

Across our Group, Affiliates have integrated ESG into investment processes for nearly 85% of their AUM.†

Report Sections

Message from our CEO

Billions are invested in ESG funds and investors are increasingly concerned about issues that go beyond financial performance. But how much of a difference are we really making? Jean Raby, CEO of Natixis Investment Managers, explores how the finance industry can work together to tackle the ESG issues of today, and tomorrow...

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Our Business

Natixis Investment Managers has 24 affiliates, each with its own culture and investment strategy. Affiliates have full autonomy over the investment process – across the group, there is no standardised approach to responsible investing. Among other advantages, this diversity allows them to specialise in areas where they have proven expertise...

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Implications of Covid-19

The world continues to grapple with its biggest public health crisis in more than a century. So, where does this leave ESG? Esty Dwek, Head of Global Market Strategy at Natixis Investment Managers Solutions, assesses the fall-out from Covid-19 pandemic crisis and the long-term implications for economies, markets and ESG investing...

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Our Strategy

We don’t believe in responsible investment for its own sake. We take a practical approach – that means integrating ESG in a way that makes a real difference, not only to our investors, but also to the world around us. Through our affiliates, we’re committed to integrating ESG issues into our policies, processes and investment decisions...

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Our Affiliates

All of our affiliates are expected to be active owners – engaging with the companies in which they invest. Most incorporate ESG into investment decisions, usually as part of a broader investment strategy. And some have ESG-labelled funds, aimed at delivering specific social or environmental benefits, alongside financial returns...

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Editorials

Many of our affiliates have been working on ESG issues for years – in some cases, at the forefront of the asset management industry. Discover their thinking on a number of key ESG challenges, from climate risk to how to engage effectively to how to work with governments and NGOs to help protect the natural world:

Climate Change: Dealing with Rising Risk

Over the past decade, economic losses from natural disasters averaged $150 billion a year. Investors can’t ignore the effects of climate change any longer.
  • November 30, 2020

Engagement: Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Investors regularly engage with the companies they invest in. But does this engagement work?

  • November 30, 2020

US Retirement: Investing for a Sustainable Future

In Europe, companies, investors and regulators have embraced responsible investment. By contrast, the US has been seen as a laggard.
  • November 30, 2020

Blended Finance: Making the “Uninvestable” Investable

Worldwide, the shortfall in funding for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) runs into trillions of dollars. It’s clear more needs to be done.
  • November 30, 2020
1 For more information on ESG and investment, see ESG and Responsible Institutional Investing Around the World (CFA Institute Research Foundation, August 2020).

* Source: BloombergNEF

† Data relating to Affiliates is taken from internal questionnaires completed by the Affiliated Investment Managers as part of a survey conducted by Natixis Investment Managers.