RI Inside Review Many believe the fund management industry is ripe for change, due to a growing demand for “active ownership” where investment managers engage with company management to ensure sustainable business success. Getting ready for these changes and ensuring the resilience of AXA IM is what the RI team seeks to do. |
The necessity for new approaches is evident from last year’s liquidity crisis. AXA IM examines the part played by the increasing short-termism of executives and investors in capital or wealth destruction, and what can be done.
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Forestry is back in the headlines as investors look to incorporate sustainable alternatives in their portfolio. AXA IM looks at raw timber as a commodity and strong hedge against inflation.
AXA IM looks at how investing responsibly among Europe’s larger public companies can be financially rewarding as well as the AXA IM RI search enabling mainstream portfolio managers to integrate ESG factors in their decision making.
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The Private Equity industry considers ESG criteria as a matter of course. However, few private equity funds take ESG criteria into account to the same extent as AXA Private Equity.
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In the post-crisis recession, AXA IM offers advice on the pros and cons of major corporate restructurings, as well as how to do “responsible restructuring” so that the company is ready for the upturn.
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Investment consultants are gatekeepers to much money accrued in long term savings. AXA IM has co-sponsored the recent pan European survey on what investment consultants think about ESG and sustainable investing and shares its findings.
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