Thinking sustainably – one goal, many paths

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Learning: Unstructured

Nathalie Wallace, Global Head of Sustainable Investing at Natixis IM, outlines how clients are being transitioned to sustainable approaches. Natixis IM is Gold Sponsor at this year’s UN PRI in Person event in Tokyo and has been committed to the UN PRI since 2008.
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investors should think about sustainable investing as leaning in and being contributing to the development of a sustainable economy.


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It is important because there are risks and opportunities that have to be taken into account into portfolios. And as investors, it is the judiciary duty to do so as well as our societal duty to contribute to a more sustainable environment. It is a key question for our clients a key challenge, and we address this question and this challenge is


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in three ways. One. We help identify and sustainable investment risks and opportunities through our analytical platform. We actually launched the and climate portfolio clarity to help with that assessment. Second step is to help them in strategic asset allocation and identify and select which product for our affiliates they can invest in to enable this transition.


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And third is really reporting being very transparent to our clients and to the clients of our clients. So we developed with the help of an external partner called a reporting platform, to help on regulatory reporting as well as ESG reporting. Well, as you know, I'm a retired portfolio manager. I'm an investor. By essence, I'm not a lawyer nor a politician. What I know is that we are


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in a very challenging, volatile macro and geopolitical environment, and the world is in transition. So we provide the solutions to for our clients to remain in as investors. We have a duty to actually contribute to the transformation of our environment of our society and to help our clients during that transition.


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The concept of the Texas investment managers with an S is that we are entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs. DNA


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is innovation


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and problem solving.


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That's what we bring with our affiliates across different asset classes. And we can collaborate. We can actually create products and solutions with different affiliates. We can also help with identifying the future investment trends and thus position our client portfolio with our expertise. So this is what I think I believe the expert collective brings to the table for our clients.

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