As a responsible asset manager, our commitment to our clients is to further develop our leadership in SRI.  Hence,  actively promote and advocate SRI in the investment industry.

We are signatory to the Principles of Responsible Investment. The PRI is a voluntary initiative championed by the United Nations that aims to encourage investors to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment decision-making and ownership practices.

We are also signatory to other industry initiatives that contribute the implementation of the PRI, such as:

• European SRI Transparency Guidelines
• Investors’ Statement on Transparency in the Extractives Sector 
• Carbon Disclosure Project
• Investor Statement on Sustainability Reporting in Emerging Markets
• Forest Footprint Disclosure Project
• Investor Collaboration on Oil Sands
• The Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate Change
• 2009 Investors Statement on a Global Agreement on Climate Change
• CDP Water Disclosure

We are member and actively participate in a number of networks to contribute to transparency and awareness of SRI:

• Several Social Investment forums, such as: 
• Eurosif (European Sustainable Investment Forum), 
• Belsif (Belgian Sustainable and Socially Responsible Investment Forum) 
• Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen (Germany, Switzerland & Austria )
• RIAA (Responsible Investment Association of Australasia)
• SIO (Canadian Assoc. for Socially Responsible Investment)
• Swesif (Swedish Sustainable Investment Forum) 
• VBDO (Dutch Sustainable Investment Forum) 
• AFG (Association Française de la Gestion financière) – Commission “Investissement Socialement Responsable”
• BEAMA – (Belgian Asset Managers Association) Committee Socially Responsible and Sustainable Investing
• EABIS (European Academy of Business in Society)
• ORSE (Observatoire sur la Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises) – Club Finance

We also enthusiastically support research into SRI and sponsor  numerous research initiatives on SRI, such as:

• Chaire de recherche Finance Durable et Investissement Responsable, organized by AFG (Association Française de la Gestion financière)

Dexia AM commits to being a responsible asset manager. 

And this commitment is not only about our leadership in Sustainable and Responsible Investments. It also means that, as a company, we want to continue to develop our own long-standing culture of responsibility: building long-term partnerships with clients, developing the potential of our employees, reducing our carbon footprint and engaging with the communities we operate in. 

In the latest Sustainability Report, we outline the many efforts and initiatives we deployed in 2010 at Dexia AM to make good upon our commitment to being a responsible asset manager.

Find out more in our engagement report