At meetings with the companies, we insist on including representatives of both the investor relations and corporate social responsibility departments. By providing pragmatic help and advice and emphasizing the business case for sustainability, we first encourage the companies to better integrate their most material topics into their strategy and operations.
Our assessment and through gap analysis give credibility to our recommendations, which are specific, tangible and easily implemented. According to the companies’ feedback, we are the only asset manager to conduct meetings that bring together the financial expertise of the portfolio managers and the sustainability expertise offered by the senior consultants of our external engagement team from BHP – Brugger & Partners.