Responsible Investing milestones

2017

June: Award from Responsible-Investor.com for ‘Innovation and Industry Leadership by an Investment Manager’ for forwarding-looking 2°C analysis on fixed income portfolios

January: Our green bond strategy, planet bonds, received the TEEC label (French Label for the Energy and Ecological Transition)

2016

November: 13 of our strategies have received the ISR label

October: International Award for Best Investor Reporting on climate-related risks from the French Environment Ministry - Prix International du Meilleur Reporting Climatique des Investisseurs 

July: Australian ESG-integrated SmartBeta mandate received certification from the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA)

March: Impact investment mandate with Big Society Capital in the UK

2015

December: AXA IM wins the Innovation Award at the Investment Week Sustainable Investment Awards.

November: Launch of the green bonds expertise

AXA IM's French retail RI fund range awarded the SRI label by Novethic

2013

October: Launch of impact investing initiative on behalf of AXA Group

February: Launch of ESG Smartbeta portfolio to answer the increasing interest for both smart beta and responsible investment

2012

The team is growing with the arrival of Luisa Florez as Senior Fixed Income Analyst and Vincent Compiègne as Junior Quantitative Analyst

2011

October : AXA IM's French retail RI fund range awarded the SRI label by Novethic

Additional transparency for our clients: Deloitte conducts external audit of our entire RI fund range

March : Matt Christensen appointed Global Head of Responsible Investment

2010

AXA IM's mainstreaming strategy defined and approved by Excom

March : Our endorsement of the Forest Footprint Disclosure project

2009

Launch of our internal RI labelling process for RI fund range

2008

December : Decision  to disinvest AXA IM's collective investment scheme in companies manufacturing antipersonnel landmines and cluster bombs

Launch of RI Search@, a platform providing access to ESG data and analysis for AXA IM fund managers

2007

May : AXA IM becomes a signatory of Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI)

October : Launch of AXA WF Framlington Human Capital fund

2006

September : Creation of the Global Responsible Investment Department

2003

April : AXA IM Voting Policy is approved by the AXA IM Board

2002

April : AXA IM becomes one of the three first fund managers accredited by CIES (grouping of major French unions)

2001

Creation of a dedicated Socially Responsible Investment team (SRI) at AXA IM

1998

Awarded first Responsible Investment mandate

1997

Jean-Pierre Hellebuyck appointed Chairman of the AFG-ASFI Corporate Governance Committee