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Natixis Investment Managers
Our multi-affiliate approach connects you to the independent thinking and focused expertise of more than 20 active managers. Ranked among the world’s largest asset managers1(USD 1.4 trillion AUM2) we deliver a diverse range of solutions across asset classes, styles, and vehicles. We’re dedicated to advancing sustainable finance and developing innovative ESG products. We consult and partner with our clients, and continually evaluate markets and assumptions to ensure their strategy delivers on long-term goals. 1. Cerulli Quantitative Update: Global Markets 2021 ranked Natixis Investment Managers as the 15th largest asset manager in the world based on assets under management as of December 31, 2020. 2. Assets under management (“AUM”) as of June 30, 2021. AUM, as reported, may include notional assets, assets serviced, gross assets, assets of minority-owned affiliated entities and other types of non-regulatory AUM managed or serviced by firms affiliated with Natixis Investment Managers.
BNY Mellon
BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed investment and wealth management and investment services in 35 countries. As of March 31, 2021, BNY Mellon had $41.7 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, and $2.2 trillion in assets under management. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Additional information is available on www.bnymellon.com. Follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon or visit our newsroom at www.bnymellon.com/newsroom for the latest company news.
COMGEST
Comgest is an independent, international asset management group with headquarters in Paris and offices in Amsterdam, Boston, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, two branch offices in Milan and Brussels and a representative office in London. Since inception in 1985, Comgest has pursued a long-term ‘Quality Growth’ and responsible investment style with the objective of selecting quality companies with solid prospects for sustainable growth. With more than 180 employees of 30 different nationalities, Comgest serves a diverse global client base and manages assets of over $47.5/ £34.7 billion (estimated data as of 31 December 2020).
Nephila Advisors
Nephila is a pioneer and leading investment manager specializing in (re)insurance, climate and weather risk. The firm has been active in the ILS markets since launching its first fund in 1998 and offers a broad range of investment products focusing on instruments such as insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bonds, insurance swaps, and private transactions across its robust platform. The platform includes Nephila Climate, a dedicated weather and climate risk transfer and ESG-driven business, Nephila Syndicate which offers non-cat specialty lines of business and Velocity Risk Underwrites, the only direct insurance entity today. Nephila has approximately $9.6 billion in assets under management as of August 1, 2020 and is headquartered in Bermuda, with offices in San Francisco, CA, Nashville, TN and London. There are currently over 250 employees with expertise in finance, seismic engineering, catastrophe modeling, risk management and traditional underwriting.
MSCI
MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.
Union Investment Institutional GmbH
For over 65 years now the Union Investment Group has been a reliable asset management partner to both retail and institutional investors. More than four million investors make Union Investment one of the leading active and sustainable asset managers, with some €404 billion in assets under management, thereof EUR 219 billion for more than 1,650 institutional clients and EUR 69 billion socially responsible investments. Offering a total of 1,264 investment funds, the company delivers solutions involving equity funds, fixed-income funds, money market funds, mixed funds, alternative investment funds, funds of funds, guarantee funds and open-ended real estate funds. (Figures as at 31th March 2021)
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More opportunity. More potential. More impact. We offer investment expertise across all key asset classes, regions and markets so that our clients can capture investment potential wherever it arises. By combining market and economic insight with technology and diverse perspectives, we look for optimal ways to help investors navigate the future and reach their financial goals. And by putting environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations at the heart of our process, we seek to find the most sustainable investment opportunities globally. By ensuring the assets we invest in are ready for and resilient to a world in transition, we act as guardians of our clients’ assets. The combination of our research, thematic thinking, ESG best practice and extensive on-the-ground analysis helps us find the most sustainable future-fit investment opportunities globally
Savvy Investor
Savvy Investor is a world-leading content platform for institutional investors and service providers. Our dedicated Content Team curate the best investment white papers and articles daily from around the web, displaying them according to the unique professional interests of each member. Our website is made up of 50 topic sections, including Pension Funds, Markets Outlook and Salary Surveys. When a new member signs up, they indicate which of the investment themes they are interested in, enabling us to tailor their homepage and newsletter to ensure we direct relevant content their way. Savvy Investor is free to join! Register at www.savvyinvestor.net
Investment Control Systems
Investment Control Systems (ICS) delivers your business a single source of truth for your investment data via our cloud-based platform, ICS ATHENA is a true SaaS platform enabling business users to engage in data management activities without the need for technical skills. We can also support your business with ESG and Sustainability Analysis. Providing data and insight that goes beyond just ESG ratings: Responding to regulatory and client demands on sustainable investments and delivering a competitive advantage to your business. ICS ATHENA Main Features: Manage Exposures: Monitor Allocations: Calculate Fund Returns + Analytics: Analyse ESG and Sustainability Impact: Look-through Your Fund and Investment Structure: Perform NAV Verification: Reconcile 3rd Party Data: Integrate External Analytics & Systems. With offices in Sydney + London, our unique hosted investment data platform and service supports investment managers with best-in-class data and reporting tools that will provide a Return-on-Investment in weeks, not months or years.
Matrix IDM
Matrix IDM (Investment Data Management) software simplifies the management of the complex, multi-level investment and product structures that underpin retirement savings, insurance and asset management businesses. The platform empowers firms to understand everything from the true nature of the exposures within funds to the indirect fees borne by investors and the impact of investment re-structuring decisions. Matrix delivers: a cloud native approach and technology uplift; deep understanding of ownership/look through of public and private investments, infrastructure and derivatives; ABOR and IBOR for customers; exposure management including deep understanding of ESG and associated classifications. With a 100% successful implementation record, Matrix IDM has over one trillion AU$ assets under management with offices in Sydney, London, New York, and Boston.
Mindtree
Mindtree [NSE: MINDTREE] is a global technology consulting and services company, helping enterprises marry scale with agility to achieve competitive advantage. “Born digital,” in 1999 and now a Larsen & Toubro Group Company, Mindtree applies its deep domain knowledge to 260 enterprise client engagements to break down silos, make sense of digital complexity and bring new initiatives to market faster. We enable IT to move at the speed of business, leveraging emerging technologies and the efficiencies of Continuous Delivery to spur business innovation. Operating in 24 countries across the world, we’re consistently regarded as one of the best places to work, embodied every day by our winning culture made up of over 27,000 entrepreneurial, collaborative and dedicated “Mindtree Minds.”
PLSA
Our mission is to help everyone to achieve a better income in retirement. We represent pension schemes that together provide a retirement income to more than 30 million savers in the UK and invest more than £1.3 trillion in the UK and abroad. Our members include asset managers, consultants, law firms, fintechs, and others who play an influential role in people's financial futures.
