{"id":33166,"date":"2014-02-28T08:01:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T07:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/news\/federis-gestion-dactifs-and-mirova-partner-up-to-promote-a-responsible-approach-to-governance\/"},"modified":"2014-02-28T08:01:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T07:01:43","slug":"federis-gestion-dactifs-and-mirova-partner-up-to-promote-a-responsible-approach-to-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/news\/federis-gestion-dactifs-and-mirova-partner-up-to-promote-a-responsible-approach-to-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u00e9d\u00e9ris Gestion d\u2019Actifs and Mirova partner up to promote a responsible approach to governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to reinforce its voting policy and establish its engagement with companies, F\u00e9d\u00e9ris Gestion d\u2019Actifs, a pillar of French<br \/>\ninsurance product and diversified management, and pioneer of responsible<br \/>\ninvestment management in France, has retained Mirova, a subsidiary of Natixis Asset Management dedicated to responsible investment, as its engagement advisor.<\/p>\n<p>As F\u00e9d\u00e9ris Gestion d\u2019Actifs moves forward with implementation of its voting policy, the<br \/>\nasset management arm of Malakoff M\u00e9d\u00e9ric Group will be supported by the advice and<br \/>\ntechnical tools of the Mirova team dedicated to social, environmental and governance<br \/>\nanalysis, as well as engagement and voting.<\/p>\n<p>F\u00e9d\u00e9ris Gestion d\u2019Actifs and Mirova share a conviction that dialogue with companies is an<br \/>\nessential lever for asset managers and institutional investors seeking to promote<br \/>\nimproved Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices, which in turn increase the<br \/>\nsustainability of the economy and thus the return on long-term savings.<\/p>\n<p>Mirova\u2019s in-house engagement platform will be used to assist F\u00e9d\u00e9ris Gestion d\u2019Actifs in<br \/>\nthe process of engaging target companies in dialogue about environmental social and<br \/>\ngovernance (ESG) issues. This platform was specifically designed to bring together<br \/>\ninstitutional investors with a shared vision of responsible investment. The tool it offers<br \/>\nwill enable collaborative, responsive engagement actions on ESG issues that respect the<br \/>\nspecificity, identity, and values of each member.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018The responsible exercise of voting rights and an active engagement with companies<br \/>\naimed at promoting better CSR practices is an integral part of F\u00e9d\u00e9ris\u2019 responsible<br \/>\ninvestment strategy,\u2019<\/em> explains Philippe Aurain, Deputy CEO and Director of Asset<br \/>\nManagement at F\u00e9d\u00e9ris Gestion d\u2019Actifs. <em>\u2018Our partnership with Mirova will allow us to<br \/>\nmake our dialogue about responsibility with companies more productive.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Philippe Zaouati, CEO of Mirova, adds:<em> \u2018Our new voting and engagement service<br \/>\nreflects Mirova\u2019s desire to support institutional investors and asset managers in<br \/>\nexercising their voting rights and establishing engagement plans.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to reinforce its voting policy and establish its engagement with companies, F\u00e9d\u00e9ris Gestion d\u2019Actifs, a pillar of French<br \/>\ninsurance product and diversified management, and pioneer of responsible<br \/>\ninvestment management in France, has retained Mirova&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":33164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1470],"tags":[1655,1826,1682,1848,2094,2007,1685,1678],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33166"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}