La Financiere Responsable (LFR) is an asset manager, specialized in the selection of eurozone listed stocks, according to its specific method of management : the Integral Value Approach IVA®. La Financiere Responsable manages open-ended and semi-closed funds for institutional investors and intermediated private investors.
This discretionary management method aims at selecting values after a detailed analysis of, successively :
- 1 . the business and strategy of the underlying company, (strategy analysis based on Michael E. Porter's works
- 2 . the implementation of this strategy and the company's real practices with all its stakeholders (extra- financial analysis)
- 3 . the financial profile of the company and its stock valuation on the markets (financial and valuation analysis)
Because of its attention to companies'strategy and business development potential, this method concentrates the LFR fund managers towards "growth" stocks.
The Integral Value Approach IVA® is a SRI (Socially Responsible Investment) management method, because of the integration of non-financial data, during the stock analysis process, even before its financial review.
If the investment process of La Financiere Responsable is mainly based on the selection of growth stocks, the fund management teams also relies on the macroeconomic diagnosis, established upstream by our economist E. Lechypre, and the Chief Economist of MAPFRE, Alberto Matellan to identify global development trends. ( top down analysis )
Ultimately, the objective of La Financiere Responsable is to obtain in the long run a good financial performance for the investors, by investing in companies managed and organized to:
- develop a full, balanced and sustainable growth, allowing all stakeholders (staff, environment, customers, suppliers, civil society and shareholders) to benefit from the economic growth.
- have a better resilience to the time-to-time shocks of the real economy.
LFR's investment strategy is intended for the following customers :
- Institutional investors
- Banks and financial companies, for their proprietary accounts or for their clientele.
- VHNW individuals through their private managers or IFAs
- Corporates
- Employees savings schemes.
La Financiere Responsable is also benefiting each year since 2010 from a research tax credit from the French Ministry of Education and Research. In September 2016, the SRI label supported by the French public authorities was awarded to all La Financière Responsable’s funds, making it the first independent asset manager to have its funds awarded this State label. In December 2017, La Financière Responsable won the French state-backed award – the CSR Challenge Trophy for the Responsible Finance (Trophée RSE pour la Finance Responsable) -- for its socially responsible investment approach.