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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2023 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

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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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2023 Annual Engagement Statistics

Since 2014, 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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2023 Mid-year Voting report

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2023 Annual Voting Statistics

In 2023, we added Pre-declaration of Voting Intentions as another means of opening communication with other shareholders, and with the managements who are our agents.
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Predeclaration of Voting Intentions

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2023 Details of direct dialogues

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Case Studies

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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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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2023

2023 Case Study – Teleperformance: Engagement Update
Teleperformance had historically been embraced by the sustainable community, with a reputation for understanding the importance of employee well-being. 
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2022 Case study - Active Engagement: Kingspan
Kingspan Group is an Ireland-based company that provides insulation and buildingenvelope solutions. It has five operating divisions, with the production of insulation products accounting for over 80% of company’s business.
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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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Reporting archives

2022

2022 Annual Engagement & Voting Report
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2022 Engagement Annual Review
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2022 Voting Annual Review
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2022 Mid-year voting report
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2022 Details of direct dialogues
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2021

2021 Annual Engagement & Voting Report
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2021 Engagement Annual review
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2021 Voting annual review
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2021 Mid Year Voting report
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2021 Details of direct dialogues
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2020

2020 Details of direct dialogues
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2019

2019 Details of direct dialogues
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2019 Engagement report
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2018

2018 Engagement report
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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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Transparency codes

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PRI - Private Assessment Report

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PRI - Public Transparency Report

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Candriam Sustainable Integration Policy

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Candriam Sustainability Risk Management Policy

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Candriam Proxy Voting Policy

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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. 

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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.

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Candriam Sustainable Investment Policy

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Candriam ESG Promotion & influence guiding principles

Policy for identifying, preventing and managing conflicts of interests

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CSR Report

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Candriam Supplier Code of Conduct

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Sustainability Reports

2022

2022 Mid-year voting report
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2022 Details of direct dialogues
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2022 Details of votes
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2022 Sovereign Sustainability Report 
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2021

2021 Mid-year voting report
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2021 Details of direct dialogues
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2021 CSR report
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PRI Transparency report
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PRI Assessment report
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Montreal C Pledge
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