Using your investments to fashion the future Investing means choosing

Your investments will change the world. The very first euro you invest will be the first step in outlining your vision of the future. This makes investment a pro-active activity that you can shape to suit your personality, aspirations and values.

Here at Candriam, we believe that investment involves not just a search for immediate maximum profit for the investor, but rather is an action beneficial to all stakeholders.

For 25 years now, we have been innovating to identify – based on constantly upgraded proprietary analysis – those companies, in our eyes, most aware of their role in society.

"Our clients, who share this vision, and who are concerned with human progress on a planet with finite resources, believe in our ability to join with them in shaping the economy of tomorrow."

Vincent Hamelink

Chief Investment Officer

A vision of the world

As we want our clients to be fully aligned with the objectives we set when investing on their behalf, we have gone on record with our vision of responsible investment. See our investment manifesto on responsible finance.

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Responsible company Our philosophy

Candriam, practising what it preaches, is as demanding of itself as it is of the companies in which it invests.

Since its foundation, Candriam has aimed to behave as responsibly as possible behaviour towards all stakeholders – clients, collaborators, suppliers, civil society and the environment.

Candriam, a responsible investor, consequently implements numerous initiatives on behalf of its stakeholders in an effort to constantly push back its corporate responsibility boundaries.

Our engagements

CSR Report

A short history lesson …

Candriam and “responsible investment” go back a long way. To 1996, in fact. When only a few pioneers took an interest in that topic. That was the year in which Candriam launched its first two sustainable funds.

Candriam, in a nutshell …

A wide range of ESG portfolios and services
One of Europe’s biggest ESG teams
67% of AUM in ESG assets¹
Gradual integration into all other strategies
One of the strictest global exclusion policies on the market

Finding out more about our management process

1996 First sustainable funds
2000 Launch of "Sustainable" range
2003 Systematic and structured voting
2005 Proprietary ESG analysis
2005Research-integrated engagement
2008 ESG-related Emerging Market Equities
2009 Analysis of ESG-related sovereign debt
2010 Start of ESG integration
2015 Luxembourg SRI SICAV
2017 Emerging Market ESG /
High Yield ESG debt

Launch of Candriam Academy
2018 Implementation of fossil-free expertise

Thermal coal and tobacco exclusion policy
2019 Implementation of our Anti-Cancer expertise

Implementation of our Climate expertise
2020 Implementation of our Circular Economy expertise
2021 Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative

Investing how could your savings be at risk

Investing in investment products is not without risk to your savings, in particular the risk of capital loss. As the degree of risk varies in accordance with the investments chosen, refrain from investing if you are not prepared to lose all or part of your capital. And, prior to investing, acquaint yourself with the risks linked to the financial product on offer.