Candriam is a leading pan-European multi-specialist asset manager with a 20-year track record and a team of more than 500 experienced professionals.

Managing about €111 bln AUM at the end of September 2017, Candriam has established management centres in Luxembourg, Paris, Brussels and London, and has experienced client relationship managers covering Continental Europe, the UK, the USA, the Middle East and Australia. Its investment solutions cover five key areas: fixed income, equities, absolute performance strategies, sustainable investments and advanced asset allocation. Through conviction-driven investment solutions, Candriam has earned a reputation for delivering innovation and strong performance to a long-standing, diversified client base in over 20 countries.

Candriam has been running responsible investment portfolios since 1996. The core of our conviction has always been that investment opportunities and risks cannot be fully evaluated using traditional financial measures alone: to ensure a complete view of each company’s prospects, we need to consider its ESG practices. Over the years we’ve increased our range of SRI capabilities such that today, we provide our investors with the broadest range of SRI portfolios and services in Europe. Using a unique approach to Best-in-Class ESG screening, Candriam covers all the main asset classes and geographic areas, as well as providing dedicated SRI advisory services.

As a responsible asset manager, Candriam became one of the first signatories of the UN Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2006. The initiative is a partnership between the United Nations and global investors with the goal of promoting and mainstreaming responsible investment practice. Candriam Group is a New York Life Company. New York Life Investments ranks among the world’s largest asset managers.

NN Investment Partners is the asset manager of NN Group N.V., an insurance company listed on Euronext Amsterdam. NN Investment Partners is head-quartered in The Hague (NL), and manages approximately EUR 244 bln* (USD 288 bln*) across all asset classes, for both institutional and individual investors, with an assertive SRI approach.
NN Investment Partners employs over 1,200 staff and is active in 15 countries across Europe, U.S., Latin America, Asia and Middle East.
NN IP has a long standing presence in France, managing almost 3 bnEUR, mainly for institutional clients both through open funds and dedicated mandates, including French fonds dédiés.NN Investment Partners is part of NN Group N.V., a publicly traded corporation.

* Figures as of 30 September 2017, EUR 50 bln relates to the AuM of Delta Lloyd Asset Management

Fitch Ratings is a leading provider of credit ratings, commentary and research. Dedicated to providing value beyond the rating through independent and prospective credit opinions, Fitch Ratings offers global perspectives shaped by strong local market experience and credit market expertise. The additional context, perspective and insights we provide help investors to make important credit judgments with confidence. Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Fitch Group is comprised of: Fitch Ratings, a global leader in credit ratings and research; Fitch Solutions, a leading provider of credit market data, analytical tools and risk services; BMI Research, an independent provider of country risk and industry analysis specializing in emerging and frontier markets; and Fitch Learning, a preeminent training and professional development firm. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

Amundi is Europe’s largest asset manager by assets under management and ranks in the top 10 globally. It manages more than 1.470 trillion euros of assets across six main investment hubs. Amundi offers its clients in Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and the Americas a wealth of market expertise and a full range of capabilities across the active, passive and real assets investment universes. Clients also have access to a complete set of services and tools. Headquartered in Paris, and listed since November 2015, Amundi is the 1^st asset manager in Europe by market capitalization.

Thanks to its unique research capabilities and the skills of close to 4,500 team members and market experts based in 37 countries, Amundi provides retail, institutional and corporate clients with innovative investment strategies and solutions tailored to their needs, targeted outcomes and risk profiles.

Amundi. Confidence must be earned.

The FAIRR Initiative is a collaborative investor network that raises awareness of the material ESG risks and opportunities caused by intensive livestock and fish production.

Intensive animal production poses material risks to the global financial system and hinders sustainable development. The sector is responsible for 14.5% of global GHG emissions – more than the transport sector – and around 30% of our global freshwater footprint.

FAIRR has identified 28 ESG risks connected to intensive animal production. We help investors to identify and prioritise these issues through cutting-edge research, including the Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index, that investors can integrate into investment decision-making and active stewardship processes. FAIRR also runs collaborative investor engagements with global food companies to improve performance on selected ESG issues in intensive livestock production.

For over 40 years, MSCI has measured and modelled Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risk. MSCI is a leading provider of ESG Research, Indexes and Analytical tools, including ESG ratings of over 13,000 issuers (including subsidiaries) and over 1,000 ESG Equity and Fixed Income Indexes.  We aim to help investors integrate ESG across their entire investment process; powering better investment decisions.

Trucost is part of S&P Global. A leader in carbon and environmental data and risk analysis, Trucost assesses risks relating to climate change, natural resource constraints, and broader environmental, social, and governance factors. Companies and financial institutions use Trucost intelligence to understand their ESG exposure to these factors, inform resilience and identify transformative solutions for a more sustainable global economy. S&P Global’s commitment to environmental analysis and product innovation allows us to deliver essential ESG investment-related information to the global marketplace.

Ortec Finance was created in 2007 through a management buyout of the company ORTEC B.V., which was founded in 1981 by four innovative students of econometrics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam who believed that mathematical models could be used to optimize the performance of companies. More than 35 years later, this is still the core of its expertise. With a team of 275 experts in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Switzerland, Ortec Finance serves its customers completely independently.

Ortec Finance is a leading provider of technology and solutions for risk and returns management.

• 20+ countries represented
• 500+ customers
• 96% retention rate
• 3 trillion euro total assets managed by our clients

Northern Trust Asset Management is a global investment manager that helps investors navigate changing market environments, so they can confidently realize their long-term objectives. Entrusted with $885 billion in assets,¹ we understand that investing ultimately serves a greater purpose and believe investors should be compensated for the risks they take — in all market environments and any investment strategy. That’s why we combine robust capital markets research, expert portfolio construction and comprehensive risk management to craft innovative and efficient solutions that deliver targeted investment outcomes. As engaged contributors to our communities, we consider it a great privilege to serve our investors and our communities with integrity, respect, and transparency.

Matter is a Danish fintech company founded in 2017 that specializes in sustainability and user experiences in the financial industry. Matter has launched Denmark’s first sustainable pension fund in collaboration with Skandia, and the company is offering its customers Europe’s first digital platform for a sustainable pension.

Matter has developed an AI-powered screening and reporting tool that combines impact data with input from NGO’s and sustainable investors to offer asset managers a real-time overview of how a portfolio is performing on a range of sustainability criteria. In addition, Matter’s APIs can provide intuitive portfolio overviews and personalized impact to end users (e.g. carbon footprint), either via Matter’s front-end or as white label solution to banks and pension companies that already have digital platforms for sustainable investing products.

The software is built by economists and machine-learning specialists, but the use case and value proposition have been developed, tested and adjusted via more than 500 user and customer interviews. From Matter’s perspective, the key in delivering on sustainability to end users is to report in a concrete and meaningful way, but also to keep track of all controversial investments and communicate these automatically to end customers in due time.

The Climate Data Factory allows financial institutions to assess climate-related physical risks. It provides calibrated, quality controlled and TCFD-compliant climate data sets for cities and countries worldwide from 1950 to 2100.

Physical risks associated with climate change are often omitted from from forward-looking strategic and risk management disclosures. Yet quality and reliable climate data sets are required to manage future risks, develop resilience, and elaborate high quality disclosures aligned with TCFD.

The Climate Data Factory is a commercial climate data provider with the most comprehensive archive of processed model data available in the market. We work with development banks and organisations worldwide of which the Agence Française du Développement (France), the World Resource Institute (USA) and CSIRO (Australia).