Social Solutions

We provide investment solutions that enable investors to contribute to positive social outcomes alongside financial returns.

RI - Social Solutions

Why integrate the social pillar into your investments?

  • Social issues such as supply chain labor practices or human rights violations can be sources of financial risk with ripple effects on investment valuations.
     
  • Embedding social factors into conventional criteria and investment decision‑making can help improve risk‑adjusted returns and generate positive societal impact.

Why integrate the social pillar into your investments?

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Alban de Faÿ – Head of Fixed Income SRI processes and Credit Portfolio Manager

Alban De Faÿ

Head of Fixed Income SRI Processes and Credit Portfolio Manager

Ensuring inclusive growth requires a coordinated, multi stakeholder approach where the private sector, takes an active, sustained role in financing, implementing and scaling solutions thanks to better integration of social risks and opportunities.”

Alban De Faÿ, Head of Fixed Income SRI Processes and Credit Portfolio Manager

Supporting social investments across all asset classes

We enable investors to embed social considerations across all major asset classes through a sophisticated, integrated framework.

  • Social Bonds: promoting the long-term inclusive growth by investing in socially impactful issuers
     
  • Just Transition for Climate: achieving net-zero emissions while ensuring an equitable and inclusive growth
     
  • Public-Private Partnerships: collaboration with major players including the IFC to finance inclusive, resilient post-Covid-19 recovery in emerging markets.

  • Social Impact: encouraging companies with strong social practices and contributing to the reduction of inequalities

  • Impact Investing: supporting the social and solidarity economy by investing in unlisted companies that deliver meaningful social and environmental impact

Improving social practices through voting and engagement

  • Our stewardship activities including voting and engagement are driven by our conviction that dialogue is key to advancing a sustainable, inclusive & low-carbon economy.
     
  • Within the social pillar, we focus on strengthening companies’ social practices, with special attention to human rights, human capital, client protection, and social safeguards.

Improving social practices through voting and engagement

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At the forefront of social initiatives

Market initiatives

Support to social studies

Member of the Social Bond Principles Executive Committee since 2017 Social Bonds Principles

Voluntary Process Guidelines for Issuing Social Bonds - Executive Committee member since 2017; co‑chaired the ICMA Social Bond Working Group for two consecutive years.
Participation in the creation of the French Chapter in 2020 of a 30% Club campaign 30% Club

A campaign promoting gender diversity at board and senior management levels – launched the French Chapter in 2020; member of the Japanese and German Chapters.
Signatory since 2018 of The Platform for Living Wage Financials, an alliance of investors encouraging companies to address inadequate pay issues. Platform for Living Wage Financials

An investor alliance encouraging companies to address inadequate pay issues - signatory since 2018.

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Committed to improving social practices, we supported the OECD in 2023 to survey 27 countries on citizens’ perceptions of equal opportunities and the actors expected to play a role in addressing inequality.
 

Discover more on the survey’s key findings here.

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