Engagement and Voting Activities
Candriam Engagement Policy
The Investment Stewardship concept calls on investors to use all means at their disposal to create: long-term value for their clients and beneficiaries & sustainable benefits for the economy, the environment and society.
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2024 Annual Engagement & Voting Report
Engagement and voting are at the centre of our investment strategy, and we remain close to our managers. However, Engagement is never an alibi. Escalation measures are taken when necessary.
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Voting Details
Voting Dashboard since 2020
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Stewardship Report 2022
Candriam Proxy Voting Policy
As a Responsible investor, Candriam pays particular attention to the corporate governance policies, structures and practices of the companies in which it invests on behalf of its customers and the funds under management.
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2024 Annual Engagement Statistics
Since 2015, our three Conviction topics have been Energy Transition, Fair Work Conditions and Business Ethics. Our engagement framework is evergreen, but the specifics are ever-changing.
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2024 Mid-year Voting report
Case Studies
2025
2025 Case Study – Engaging with Companies in Conflict-affected Areas
The number of active conflicts worldwide has never been higher since the end of World War II, according to the Institute for Economics & Peace. Should businesses maintain operations in conflict-affected areas? If so, to what extent, and under what conditions? How can sustainable investors appropriately evaluate and address the risks involved, and promote better practices?
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2025 Case Study – PFAS Engagement Campaign
Due to their widespread use and persistent nature, the environmental and health effects of PFAS will be global and long-lasting. Companies that fail to address PFAS risks may face regulatory penalties, litigation costs, and reputational damage, with potential material financial impact. This paper discusses the findings of our engagement campaign with a selection of corporates that manufacture or use PFAS, and highlights the industry’s best practices.
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2024
2024 Case Study – Human Capital Management in European Small and Mid-sized Companies: Analysing the Data
Despite constraints on both their human and financial capital, Small- and Mid-Sized companies (SMIDs) share similar business ambitions with their larger counterparts while competing for the same talent. They need talent to fuel their growth, yet that rapid growth can strain employees. Attracting and retaining talent, while simultaneously maintaining workforce productivity, poses a challenge.
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2024 Case Study – Active Engagement: Costa Rica
Sovereign engagement is rare, and direct engagement even more so. Not only is access difficult to obtain, but great care must be taken to avoid even the appearance of lobbying or interfering. This case describes a successful engagement with government representatives, IMF officials, and others which improved our understanding of a material event.
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2023
2023 Case Study – Active Engagement: Unilever
Although Unilever was already an example of ‘Best Practice’ in food industry nutrition transparency, a working group of investors believes that the entire food industry must do better. And good news! When Unilever raised the game, other major food producers quickly followed to adopt the new, stronger best practices.
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2022 Collaborative Initiative - Active Engagement: Investor Engagement on Human Rights Risks of Facial Recognition Technology
Governments, law enforcement agencies and corporates are rushing to adopt Facial Recognition Technology (FRT).
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2022 Case Study – Active Engagement: Small and Mid-Cap Companies: Human Capital Management
SMID companies have fewer resources than their large-capitalization peers, yet are often growing faster. We apply our experience in Engagement campaigns to the special situations of these companies, beginning with their need to recruit, train, and retain employees, while competing against larger companies for the same workers.
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2021
2021 Case Study – Active Engagement: Access to medicines, or how equality has become a central issue for pharma businesses
The health crisis has caused more than 900,000 deaths in Europe1. But it has also illustrated the health sector’s tremendous drive for innovation in its search for solutions to the pandemic. Candriam’s aim in its investments in the health sector is to identify, amongst those companies capable of discovering and producing the solutions of tomorrow, the most innovative.
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2021 Case Study – Active Engagement: Financial Institutions Climate Change Survey
The impacts of Climate Change on the financial sector are already measured in the billions, just for extreme weather events. Add in other elements such as credit risks for banks, and delays in tackling climate change could cost financial companies up to $1.2 trillion over the next 15 years.
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2020
2020 Case Study – Active Engagement: Collective Efforts: the Workforce Disclosure Initiative
The Covid Crisis has put a renewed spotlight on the ‘S’ in ESG. Investors need more transparency to analyze not only the employee stakeholder, but the flexibility and preparedness of companies in crises such as Covid.
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2020 Case Study – Active Engagement: Teleperformance SE
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.
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2020 Case Study – Active Engagement: BHP
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.
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Sustainability Policies, Guidelines, Commitments
Candriam Exclusion Policy
This controversial activity policy is the concrete expression of Candriam’s sustainability leadership.
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Candriam Climate Policy
Climate change is one of the most urgent and important challenges that society and investors are facing today.
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Candriam Engagement Policy
The Investment Stewardship concept calls on investors to use all means at their disposal to create: long-term value for their clients and beneficiaries & sustainable benefits for the economy, the environment and society.
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Candriam Sustainable Integration Policy
Candriam Sustainability Risk Management Policy
Candriam Proxy Voting Policy
Candriam Human Rights Policy
We believe that respecting and upholding Human Rights is part of our corporate responsibility, as an employer, in our operations, and as an asset manager to whom investors entrust their portfolios.
Candriam Sustainable Investment Policy
Policy for identifying, preventing and managing conflicts of interests
Candriam Biodiversity Policy
CSR Report
PRI - Private Assessment Report
PRI - Public Transparency Report
Net Zero Progress Report
We promised you transparency. For a comprehensive discussion of our efforts and results, see our [annual] Net Zero Progress Report 2024.
2024 TNFD Report
The TNFD framework aims to standardise and improve reporting on the impacts of business activities on nature, helping organisations assess and manage nature-related risks and opportunities effectively. Candriam is part of the 502 organisations around the world that have started making nature-related disclosures aligned to the 14 TNFD recommended disclosures.
Candriam ESG Promotion & influence guiding principles
- Guiding principles on ESG Promotion & Influence 2021
- Guiding principles on ESG Promotion & Influence 2020
Transparency codes
California AB 1305 Compliance Statement
This statement is meant as a guide to where the disclosure required by California’s Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act (“AB-1305”) can be found throughout the CSR Report of Candriam (the “Company” or “we”/”our” as context requires below) and certain other Company publications (Publications | Candriam) including the Climate Policy.