Committed to Long-Term Value and Inclusion
Through our stewardship activity, we seek to accompany the transition towards a sustainable, inclusive and low-carbon economy while driving long-term value for our client’s portfolios.
Exploring perceptions
of equal opportunity
Understanding how people perceive equal opportunities is crucial
Promoting social mobility and equality of opportunity remains an important challenge for OECD countries. It is therefore critical to understand citizens’ perceptions on social risks and on the role of institutions and market players in providing everyone with equal chances to succeed in life.
To explore people’s perceptions of equal opportunity, the OECD, with our support, included a module on “opportunities” in the 2022 wave of the OECD Risks that Matter survey. This module targeted the general population across 27 OECD countries with a sample of approximately 1,000 respondents per country, stratified by sex, age group, education level, income level, and employment status.
In particular, the Opportunities module collected evidence on the following thematic areas identified as lacking comparable information:
- the relative importance of different aspects of inequality;
- people’s views on the role of effort and factors beyond people’s control in shaping inequality of opportunity; and
- people’s views of the role different actors play in reducing inequality and of the type of policies and actions to prioritise.
Data collection on these topics greatly contributes to fill existing evidence gaps on issues that are at the core of the public debate in many OECD countries.
Before discovering the main findings of the Opportunities module, take this poll to compare your perceptions of equal opportunity to the OECD average.
Integrating the social pillar into your investments
Supporting social investment across all asset classes
In line with our commitment to supporting sustainable investment across all asset classes, we have developed a range of social investment strategies. These date back to 2013 with the launch of the Finance and Solidarity strategy and later a dedicated social bond strategy supporting the expansion of this nascent market.
We are committed to spearheading the development of the social agenda globally, through sophisticated integration of social issues across all main asset classes: fixed income, equity, and non-listed assets.
- Social Bonds: Supporting the post-pandemic recovery and long-term inclusive growth by promoting socially impactful issuers
- Just Transition for Climate: Setting corporates on a path to a 2°C trajectory without leaving anyone behind
- Private Public Partnerships: Providing financing for inclusive, resilient post-Covid-19 recovery in emerging markets.
- Social Impact: Encouraging companies with the best social practices and participating in the reduction of inequalities
- Education: Supporting global strategy investing in a whole ecosystem centred around lifelong education
Our Impact Investing team specialises in Private Impact Investing across Europe, and manages the largest Social Impact Investing strategy in France.
Watch the video to know more about our Social Bonds strategy
Discover more through the annual impact report on our Social Bonds strategy:
Improving social practices through engagement
Improving social practices through engagement
Market Initiatives
Leading the way in Social and Sustainability-Linked Bonds
We are at the forefront of development and research on Social and Sustainability-linked bonds, and publish key research pieces to lead the discussion
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We have been a member of the Social Bond Principles Executive Committee since 2017 and co-chaired the ICMA Social Bond Working Group for two consecutive editions |
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The 30% Club is a global campaign taking action to increase gender diversity at board and senior management levels. Sharing this commitment, we participated in the creation of the French Chapter in 2020. |
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The Platform Living Wage Financials is an alliance of investors encouraging companies to address inadequate pay issues. We have been a signatory since 2018. |
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Since 2010, we have been an active supporter of the Access to Medicine Foundation, an independent non-profit organization with the mission to encourage pharmaceutical companies to do more for people living in low and middle-income countries. |
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