SRI Publications

• Candriam Engagement Policy : EN / FR
• Candriam Voting Policy

• 2021 Annual Engagement & Voting Report : EN / FR
  • 2021 Engagement Annual Review : EN / FR
  • 2021 Voting Annual Review : EN / FR

• 2021 Details of direct dialogues
• 2020 Details of direct dialogues
• 2019 Details of direct dialogues

• Mid-Year Voting Report 2022
• Key voting takeaways in 2021
• Lessons from the 2020 Voting Season

• Most recent Details of Votes (today to 2020)
• 2019 Details of Votes
• 2018 Details of Votes
• 2017 Details of Votes

• 2020 Engagement report
• 2019 Engagement report
• 2018 Engagement report

Post-Covid Engagement Takeaways

The pandemic changed the rules of the game at both individual and collective scales. It impacted the world economy from many different perspectives. Not only did it create a short-term financial strain, it also pushed several corporates to re-draft their long-term strategies.

Kingspan

Kingspan Group Public Limited is an Ireland-based company that provides insulation and building envelope solutions. It has five operating divisions, with the production of insulation products accounting for over 80% of company’s business. Kingspan also offers a range of rainwater harvesting and flooding control systems, raised access flooring, daylighting, natural ventilation and smoke management solutions. As a leading producer of insulation solutions, the company operates in the sector which plays a significant role in the global energy efficiency push.

Facial recognition and human rights: what is the role of responsible investors?

Since June 2021, Candriam has been leading a new collaborative engagement effort to address risks to civil liberties posed by the influx of facial recognition technology. Through this two-year project, the associated investors’ working group aims to improve disclosure and practices around the use of facial recognition technology.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Climate change is one of the most urgent and important challenges that society and investors are facing today. It is also a source of opportunity for investors through the reallocation of capital and innovation that our responses to climate change are creating and will undoubtedly stimulate. As an asset manager, Candriam's responsibility is to preserve and develop the assets of its investors. Candriam therefore integrates climate change at every level of analysis and investment decision making as well as in the exercise of its role as an active and responsible investor.

Financial markets play a pivotal role in the financing of companies’ activities to support economic growth and foster innovation. However, economic development and growth should be sustainable in the long run benefiting everyone across generations. In 2015, both the COP21 Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) clearly articulated the need to shift the emphasis from measuring economic growth to appraising and incentivizing sustainable economic development for all.

Sustainability is rooted in Candriam's operating model and forms a key part of our corporate culture. Candriam’s sustainable development strategy leads us to incorporate sustainability trends shaping the world of tomorrow within the process of defining our firm’s strategic orientations. Our philosophy is to establish and maintain a balance between responsible behaviour towards all stakeholders and the pursuit of sustainable financial performance.

A sustainable approach

Investing for tomorrow.

Guiding principles on ESG Promotion & Influence 2021

The Global Strategic Committee monitors the association membership and decides who represents Candriam within those associations. The principle is that ESG experts actively and regularly participate to RI working groups within industry associations and associations with an ESG purpose. Leading roles are also supported.

Guiding principles on ESG Promotion & Influence 2020

CANDRIAM is committed to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). This commitment is reflected in all of CANDRIAM’s activities as well as promoted in our relations with our stakeholders including the associations CANDRIAM is member of..

Sustainable and responsible investments

25 years of expertise at your service

Dispelling the five common myths

Dispelling some common myths of sustainable investing. True or false: sustainable strategies underperform? Let’s put an end to overcoming misconceptions of sustainable investing!

Emerging market companies hold the key to our climate future

In 2015, the year of the COPS21 conference in Paris, the global level of CO₂ emissions reached 35.21 billion tons. In December that year, the Paris Agreement was signed, setting out a global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C compared to the pre-industrial levels.

European Taxonomy

We welcome the European Taxonomy, a guide to help drive sustainable investments and green the financial sector. Find out more about how the taxonomy can be implemented in our whitepaper.

Navigating the alphabet soup

In this paper, we want to demystify the terminology and abbreviations so that you can understand the benefits of sustainable investing without being overwhelmed by jargon and acronyms.

Positive and negative approaches

Positive and negative approaches in Sustainable Investing: better understand them to align your investments with values and create outperformance through ESG.

The three most common questions on the new EU regulation

If you feel a bit lost faced with all the obscure acronyms that seem to be taking over the ESG debate these days, don’t worry, you are not alone in that situation. We have created this series of short briefing notes to provide you, as an investor, with the essential things you need to know to understand how what some have dubbed a “regulatory tsunami” will impact you and what you need to do next.

Does ESG Do What it Says? The New SFDR Requirements

Are 'Sustainable' investments truly sustainable? What Environmental, Social, and Governance factors are actually included in your investment? Does your investment really do what it says on the label? David Czupryna's overview of the new EU requirements concludes they are likely to clarify the situation, while the lingo may be a lot to learn.