Investment Management Institutions


Aberdeen Asset Management

40 Princes Street, Edinburgh EH2 2BY

Contact: Cindy Rose

Tel: 0131 313 1000

Email: cindy.rose@aberdeen-asset.com
Web: www.aberdeen-asset.com

Aberdeen Asset Management provides investment services for individuals and institutions in the UK and abroad. We currently manage over £25 billion entrusted to us directly or through intermediaries with the primary aim of maximising the income and capital return on the funds we invest for our clients. Since 1988, Aberdeen Asset Management has been involved in the management of ethical portfolios. Our team of dedicated professionals manages over £145 million in funds under socially responsible criteria. First, they carefully research a company's financial growth potential and then analyse its environmental and social history to determine its suitability for inclusion in the portfolio.

In June 1999, we launched the Murray Ethical World Fund, now renamed Aberdeen Ethical World Fund (AEWF). As a true global portfolio, AEWF requires that companies have a sound financial base and also operate with integrity towards their customers, employees, the local community and the environment.

Aberdeen Asset Management believes that ethically minded investments will become increasingly popular as individuals realise they can influence corporate behaviour by investing according to their conscience. We are helping to build a culture of responsible investing by providing our clients with products and investment services which adhere to rigid standards of financial performance and social responsibility.

Aberdeen Asset Management is regulated by the FSA.
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AEGON Asset Management

AEGON House, 3 Lochside Ave, Edinburgh EH12 9SA, Scotland

Contact: Ryan Smith, Head of Corporate Governance & SRI

Tel: 0131 549 6275
Fax: 0131 304 3460

Email: ryan.smith@aegon.co.uk
Web: www.aegon.co.uk

Scottish Equitable plc, Scottish Equitable International Holdings plc and AEGON Asset Management UK plc are subsidiaries of AEGON UK, a member of the AEGON Group, one of the largest insurers in the world. AEGON Asset Management, the investment company of AEGON UK has funds under management of over £32bn. The company has been managing Ethical funds since 1988.

AEGON Asset Management offers investors a choice of two ethical funds. Both are designed to meet the needs of clients who wish to make investment decisions based on strong ethical principles. The Ethical Fund invests in UK equities, while the Ethical Income Fund invests solely in corporate bonds. Both funds use highly selective investment criteria, and do not invest in any company whose activities could be considered harmful to society or the environment.

The ethical screening process evaluates the effects that certain companies' activities, products and services can have on society at large. Ethical funds avoid investment in companies that harm people, animals or the environment. Established in 1989, the Ethical Fund is well respected for the stringency and diversity of the selection process it employs. The Ethical Income Fund follows the same criteria, while offering investors a higher level of potential income.
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Axa Investment Managers

7 Newgate Street London, EC4M 7NX

Contact: Raj Thomatheram, Director - Responsible Investment

Tel: +44 20 7003 2117/+33 1 44 45 94 90

Email: raj.thomatheram@axa-im.com

Web: www.axa-im.co.uk

AXA IM has been active in the Responsible Investment market for more than a decade and was an early mover on Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) and Corporate Governance, the precursors to today's RI work. The RI Team’s key activities include development and support of specialist RI products, research and analysis for both mainstream as well as product-specific applications, and strong corporate governance activity.

To make sure we continue to meet the expectations of our stakeholders, we are increasingly playing a trendsetting role in the ongoing Responsible Investment debate. This reflects our conviction that environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities are key contributors to better risk-adjusted long-term returns. Our funds, aimed at long-term capital growth, are invested in the securities of financially superior companies that respect stringent social and environmental standards.

In June 2006, Jean-Pierre Hellebuyck (vice-chairman of AXA-IM) appointed Raj Thamotheram as Director of Responsible Investment. One of Raj’s early missions has been to reshape and develop AXA IM’s RI team through the merger of the corporate governance (London) and SRI (Paris) teams. A growing team of 8, AXA IM’s RI division has now also been further strengthened by the addition of a senior quantitative analyst.

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Baillie Gifford & Co

Calton Square, 1 Greenside Row, Edinburgh EH1 3AN

Contact: Marianne Harper-Gow

Tel: 0131 275 2000
Fax: 0131 275 3999

Email: marianne.harpergow@bailliegifford.com  
Web: www.bailliegifford.com

We are one of the UK's leading independent investment management firms. Our main lines of business are Pension Funds, both definded benefit and defined contribution (D.C.), Investment Trusts and Retail Financial Products (OEICs, Unit Trusts and ISAs). We are active fund managers and provide investment advice to some of the world's leading financial institutions. We are amongst the largest managers of segregated and pooled pension funds in the UK and have significant international asset management business in the United States, Canada, Japan and Germany. Baillie Gifford's approach towards corporate governance and socially responsible investment (SRI) is characterised by engagement rather than exclusion. That is, where we hold shares in a company, we engage its management in dialogue to encourage improvements in its corporate governance, management of environmental impact and relationships with employees, customers, suppliers and the community. In selecting and retaining investments, we seek to favour those companies that pursue best practices, provided this does not act to the detriment of the return or risk of the portfolios we manage. We also vote all of our clients' shares at meetings of UK companies and vote against proposals of both UK and overseas companies where we feel these are not in the shareholders' interests.
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Catalyst Fund Management and Research Ltd

Unit 21, 25 Bickerton Road, London W19 5JT

Contact: Sarah Cowie, Office Manager

Tel: 020 7281 5948
Fax: 020 7281 1873

Email: sarah@catfund.com
Web: www.catfund.com

Catalyst is a London-based firm providing fund management, advisory and information services to social businesses and investors. It recently launched socialinvestments.com, a pioneering, easy to use, online information resource which aims to connect investors with investment opportunities in the rapidly growing social business sector.

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Cazenove Capital Management Ltd

12 Moorgate, London EC2R 6DA

Contact: Katie Gordon, SRI

Tel: 020 7155 5000
Fax: 020 7606 9205

Email: katie.gordon@cazenovecapital.com


Web: www.cazenove.com

Cazenove Capital Management (CCM) is an independent and client-driven asset management company, combining specialist investment management services with impartial advice. We believe that active management which combines business cycle-led investment insights, detailed analysis of individual companies and a structured approach to risk management will lead to outperformance in different market conditions.

Our primary aim is to meet clients’ investment objectives within agreed risk parameters. To achieve this we manage client’s assets via a rigorous investment process including analysis of both financial and non-financial factors. Research into the social, environmental and ethical (SEE) stance of companies is integrated within this process (and applies to all our pan-European equity funds). It is our belief that our quality companies, operating at an environmentally and socially sustainable level are more likely to deliver long-term shareholder value.

CCM manages over £9bn of assets on behalf of HNWI, family offices, charities and specialist institutions. Alongside our integrated SEE investment process we offer ethical screening for clients with specific ethical concerns. We have a dedicated Charity team and the most comprehensive range of CIFs (Charity Commission Authorised Common Investment Funds) in the UK.

For more information please contact:
Alexia Zavos (for Private Clients) or
Edward Harley 020 7155 5828.
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CCLA Investment Management Ltd

80 Cheapside, London EC2V 6DZ

Contact: Neville White, Manager SRI Unit

Tel: 020 7489 6000
Fax: 020 7489 6128

Email: neville.white@ccla.co.uk
Web: www.ccla.co.uk

Established in 1987, CCLA Investment Management Ltd, regulated by the FSA, is a leading specialist investment management company serving charities, churches and local authorities. It currently provides investment services to institutional funds amounting to some £5.1billion. CCLA's SRI Unit works in conjunction with the Central Church of England investment bodies (Church Commissioners, CBF Funds and Pensions Board) in developing the ethical investment policy of the Church of England. The Unit also provides socially responsible investment and corporate governance services to CCLA's other, non-church of England charity clients.
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Credit Suisse Asset Management

One Cabot Square, London, E14 4QJ

Contact: Catherine Field

Tel: 020 7883 0134
Fax: 020 7883 9487

Email: catherine.field@credit-suisse.com
Web: www.credit-suisse.com

As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with private banking, investment banking and asset management services worldwide. The Asset Management business has approximately GBP 305 billion in assets under management and employs 2,809 people worldwide.

The Asset Management business offers products across the full spectrum of investment classes, ranging from equities, fixed income and multiple-asset class products to alternative investments such as real estate, hedge funds, private equity and volatility management. Credit Suisse's Asset Management business manages portfolios, mutual funds, and other investment vehicles for a broad spectrum of clients ranging from governments, institutions and corporations to private individuals. With offers focusses on asset management in 23 countries, Credit Suisse's Asset Management business is operated as a globally integrated network to deliver the bank's best investment ideas and capabilities to clients around the world.

Credit Suisse offer investors a choice of two ethical funds, the Credit Suisse Fellowship Fund and the Credit Suisse Multi-Manager Ethical Fund.

The Credit Suisse Fellowship Fund, launched on 7 July 1986, seeks to invest in companies who business is based on ethical principles. Investment emphasis will be given to those companies which contribute positively to the requirements of a civilised society and maintain good employment practices and good relations with customers, suppliers and local communities. The Fund has an independent committee of reference that meets 3 times a year.

Companies are screened in accordance with the approved criteria through EIRIS, the Ethical Investment Research Service, and through close contract between the Fund Managers and the companies selected.

The aim of the Credit Suisse Multi-Manager Ethical Fund is to achieve capital growth by investing in units or shares of eligible collective investment schemes which pursue a strategy encompassing ethical considerations as a material part of their investment policy or objective. Although investment will primarily be in the UK, investment may be made in any economic sector anywhere in the world. This Fund may also invest in units or share of eligible collective investment schemes which constitute money market funds.

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cru Investment Management

No. 3 Callaghan Square, Cardiff CF10 5BT

Contact: Naveen Raza

Tel: 020 7957 6104

 

Email: nraza@cruim.com

Web: www.cruim.com

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Ecclesiastical Insurance Group

19/21 Billiter Street, London EC3M 2RY

Contact: Susan Round, Fund Manager

Tel: 020 7528 7364
Fax: 020 7528 7365

Email: sue_round@eigmail.com
Web: www.ecclesiastical.co.uk

Allchurches Investment Management Services (AIMS) is the investment arm of Ecclesiastical Insurance Group. The original company was established in 1887 for the purpose of providing financial services for the clergy, by the clergy. Today, whilst the company retains close links to its origins, it has grown significantly and offers a wide range of financial products that includes home protection, life assurance, pensions & Investment.

AIMS operates in the City and as at 31st May, Funds under management were over £800m, with £660m relating to Ecclesiastical General, Life and Pension Business and £145 to Investment Retail Funds.

The Funds include the Amity Fund, launched in 1988 and was one of the first ethically screened investment Funds in the UK. Sue Round has managed the fund since inception. The 'restricted' universe of Companies available to this ethically screened fund has not impeded performance and the Fund is 4 star rated by Standard and Poors and Sue Round is AA rated by Citywire.

The Investment Objective is to provide long-term capital and income growth, by investing in companies that meet the ethical criteria applied by the investment manager. The funds will be invested principally in British companies.

The Allchurches Amity Fund is an ethically screened fund, established to offer a positive emphasis to investments for individuals, corporate bodies and charitable groups alike. It is designed for those wishing to match their investments with their ideals, for whom financial gain is not the sole consideration. The manager aims to invest in companies which demonstrate a positive contribution to the quality of individual and community life and which respect and protect the environment. Investments include companies involved in pollution control, waste management, energy conservation, housing, education, home safety, medical and health care.

The principal areas which the managers seek to avoid are companies with material interests in countries with repressive regimes, the production of alcohol, tobacco, gambling and producers of magazines or videos of an explicit or violent nature. The fund also avoids investing in companies involved in the manufacture of strategic arms and the use of animals for cosmetic research.
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Epworth Investment Management

9 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4PE

Contact: Bill Seddon, Chief Executive

Tel: 020 7496 3630
Fax: 020 7496 3637

Email: bill.seddon@cfbmethodistchurch.org.uk
Web:

Epworth Investment Management was launched in January 1996 to provide similar investment services to non-Methodist churches and charities as those offered by the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church (CFB). Epworth is an IMRO regulated company, whose shareholders include the CFB and other Methodist organisations. It is, we believe, a unique venture as the only investment management operation in the UK with an exclusive focus on socially responsible investment (sri). Epworth positively seeks to invest in companies which recognise their obligation to society and the environment, believing them to be long-term corporate success stories.

The CFB and Epworth have combined funds under management of over £900m, making it by size one of the top 15 charity fund management groups. Epworth shares the same staff, premises and investment philosophy as the CFB. Epworth seeks to provide a high quality investment service achieving above average financial returns for clients. An integral part of the investment decision-making process is to examine the ethical dimension, and thereby construct investment portfolios which are consistent with the moral stance and teaching of the Christian faith. In addition, both Epworth and the CFB are committed to engaging in constructive dialogue with company managements to influence their behaviour.

It is sometimes said that imposing ethical criteria on an investment portfolio must lower financial returns. However, the CFB's long-term track record demonstrates that it is possible to combine ethical concerns and a good financial return. Over the years, investors in the CFB's UK equity and fixed interest funds have seen outperformance of both the average fund and the relevant indices.

Epworth launched the Affirmative Equity and Fixed Interest Funds in 2001 to provide clients with the benefits and simplicity of common investment funds.
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F&C Management Ltd

Exchange House, Primrose Street, London EC2A 2NY

Contact: Sagarika Chatterjee, Senior Analyst

Tel: 020 7506 1100
Fax: 020 7600 4180

Email: Sagarika.Chatterjee@fandc.com

Web: www.fandc.com

F&C Management Ltd is an institutional asset management company based in London, United Kingdom, with offices in Amsterdam, Boston, Dublin, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Lisbon and Paris. It was formed following the merger of ISIS Asset Management and F&C Management Limited in October 2004 and manages approximately £118 billion as at 30th June 2004.

F&C has long been at the forefront of ethical investment management. It launched Stewardship, the first socially responsible unit trust in the UK, in 1984 and this remains the largest SRI fund in the UK today.

At F&C, we are constantly seeking new ways to embrace social responsibility in our investments. In 1999 we launched reo®, the Responsible Engagement Overlay, providing a way for institutional pension funds to address ethical and environmental issues by means of engagement.

Engagement and Selection are the two ways that F&C currently enables its investors to achieve the financial returns they expect, while addressing their social responsibilities.
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Fidelity Investments

25 Cannon Street, London EC4M 5TA

Contact: Niamh Whooley

Tel: 01732 361 144
Fax:

Email: Niamh.Whooley@uk.fid-intl.com
Web:

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Friends Provident Life and Pensions Ltd

100 Wood Street, London EC2V 7AN

Tel: 020 7760 3010
Fax: 020 7600 4180

Web: www.friendsprovident.co.uk

Friends Provident launched the UK's first retail ethical unit trust, life and pension fund range in June 1984, which was given the name "Stewardship" by Charles Jacob MBE. The fund was the result of several years of searching for a solution that would best serve the needs of those investors who did not consider the financial return to be the only reason for choosing an investment.

Friends Provident's Stewardship range of nine funds includes UK, International and Managed fund options across a range of investment products. The Stewardship funds are all screened against the same negative and positive ethical criteria. As at 31st January 2004 Stewardship had funds under management of around £1.5 billion.

Friends Provident has for some time considered the Ethical Investment market to be an important growth area and the recent change in pension rules has confirmed this view. In 1998, Friends Provident increased SRI capabilities by creating a Governance and SRI unit, which is now (2004) eleven people strong, the largest team of its kind in Europe. This team supplies information to the Committee of Reference who are tasked with making policy and company approval decisions on behalf of the Stewardship investors.

Another important part of the GSRI team's role is to engage with companies in order to try to encourage better corporate practices with regard to ethical, social and environmental issues. Whilst Stewardship has done this to some extent for many years, the creation of this team has substantially increased the Group's ability to be active in this way.

This approach has now been extended across the Group's equity assets, although it does not influence investment decisions in non-Stewardship funds. This approach, which was formally adopted by the Friends Provident board in April 2000, is managed and marketed by the Group's fund management arm, ISIS Asset Management Plc as 'reo®' (responsible engagement overlay). This policy applies to all the group's equity investments and as such applies to almost all of Friends Provident's retail funds.
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Generation Investment Management LLP

4 Cork Street, London W1S 3LG

Contact: Lila Preston, Associate

Tel: 020 7534 4700
Fax: 020 7534 4701

Email: lila.preston@generationim.com
Web: www.generationim.com

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Governance for Owners LLP

26 Throgmoton Street, London EC2N 2AN

Contact: Anne Kirkeby

Tel: 020 7614 4750

Email: A.Kirkeby@g4owners.com
Web: www.g4owners.com

Governance for Owners (GO) was founded in 2004 and is an independent partnership between major institutional share owners, a long-term financial backer and GO's senior executives (all of whom have made significant personal investments in the partnership). GO is dedicated to adding long-term shareholder value for clients by exercising owners' rights.

GO has two main product offerings:

The GO European Focus Fund, which invests in European public companies where value can be added through exercising owners' rights to address key structural or strategic governance weaknesses that have impaired company performance and the GO Stewardship Service, which offers voting and underlying engagement services covering 700 European and 500 US quoted equities, combined with a more intensive programme of enhanced-value engagement on a conceptual 'portfolio' of clients' investments.

GO's operations in Europe and the US bring together experienced professionals with general business skills, investment management and governance expertise to effect change at public companies that adds long-term value.

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Henderson Global Investors

4 Broadgate, London EC2M 2DA

Contact: George Latham, Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment Funds

Tel: 020 7818 5056

Email: George.Latham@henderson.com

Web: www.henderson.com

Henderson Global Investors is a global asset manager with over £70 billion under management. The Henderson SRI Team manages over £1 billion of funds for charities, private clients and retail customers with an ethical brief. All of these focus on avoiding investment in companies which break pre-determined criteriá covering arms, pollution and human rights. These also seek to encourage companies committed to sustainability, fair trade, and a positive approach to their employees and customers.

The team of specialist investment managers and analysts have established an international reputation for their commitment to original research analysing environmental, social and financial aspects of corporate activity. The team works together to identify investment opportunities and maintain a proprietary database of companies world-wide. All companies whose stocks are purchased for socially responsible investment portfolios are fully researched, contacted and visited to ensure that the stocks meet both investment and ethical criteria. This double hurdle produces a universe of high quality stocks that have the potential to achieve consistently superior earnings growth.
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Hermes Investment Management Ltd

Lloyds Chambers, 1 Portsoken Street, London E1 8HZ

Contact: Jennifer Walmsley

Tel: 020 7680 2847
Fax: 020 7680 2452

Email: j.walmsley@hermes.co.uk

Web: www.hermes.co.uk

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Impax Group

Broughton House, 6-8 Sackville Street, London W1S 3DG

Contact: Charlotte Steel, Analyst

Tel: 020 7432 2613
Fax: 020 7437 1245

Email: c.steel@impax.co.uk

Web: www.impax.co.uk

Impax Group plc (“Impax”) is a financial services and energy company quoted on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. The focus of the Group is on the provision of corporate finance services to private and public sector clients across the renewable energy, waste management and water sectors.

The financial services business within Impax has two wholly owned subsidiaries covering corporate finance and asset management, both regulated by the Financial Services Authority, as described below.

Impax Capital Corporation Limited (“ICC”) is the corporate finance business providing corporate merger and acquisition, debt and equity finance raising and related advisory services to companies across the renewable energy, waste management and water sectors. The company has a proven track record of transaction closure having raised finance and acted as advisor for some of the largest renewable energy and waste management schemes in Europe. ICC has significant experience of advising UK and EU government departments and agencies in the design of market based renewable energy and emissions trading “frameworks” and support mechanisms; and acts for multinational, medium and small sized companies on a variety of sector specific advisory tasks.

Impax Asset Management Limited (“IAM”) provides fund management and advisory services to investors. IAM has particular expertise in managing portfolios of Environmental Infrastructure and Technology listed stocks and is the originator of the ET-50, an index comprising 50 of the largest “pure play” environmental technology companies from 14 countries. IAM manages Impax Environmental Markets plc, a £50 million investment trust raised in February 2002 for investment in listed companies in the environmental sector. The unit is the investment manager for The Recycling Fund, a £5.5m equity fund supported by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme), focusing specifically on the recycling sector. The unit is also lead advisor to two listed equity funds investing in a global portfolio of environmental technology stocks and is the lead managing agent to the International Finance Corporation for a US $25m facility for investment in solar energy in emerging markets.

IAM and ICC have between them a dedicated and versatile team of professional and support staff based in London, offering access to a network of project sponsors and finance providers, as well as private and institutional investors in the expanding environmental technology markets.
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Insight Investment

33 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1HZ

Contact: Rory Sullivan, Head of Investor Responsibility

Tel: 020 7321 1875
Fax: 020 7321 1426

Email: rory.sullivan@insightinvestment.com
Web: www.insightinvestment.com

Insight Investment is part of the HBOS Group. Launched in 2002, Insight Investment is one of the UK's largest asset managers with £98.6bn in assets under management (as at 31 December 2006).

Insight believes that, as an investment manager, we have a duty to our clients to consider in our investment decision making, the potential financial impacts of companies' exposure to, and management of, environmental, social and governance issues.  We also believe that it is in our clients' best interests that we encourage high standards of corporate governance and corporate responsibility in the companies in which we invest.

In 2002, we made a policy commitment to manage all of our clients' funds according to responsible investment principles.  To deliver on that commitment, we established a market-leading Investor Responsibility team.  Since then, we have played a leading role in many debates on corporate governance, climate change, sustainable development and corporate responsibility, and we have influenced the companies in which we invest to run their businesses more responsibly.

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Jupiter Asset Management

Jupiter SRI & Governance Team, 1 Grosvenor Place, London SW1X 7JJ

Contact: Emma Howard Boyd, Head of SRI & Governance

Tel: 020 7412 0703
Fax: 020 7412 0705

Email: ehowardboyd@jupiter-group.co.uk
Web: www.jupiteronline.co.uk

Jupiter Asset Management, a member of the Commerzbank Group, is an international investment management group which manages some £12 billion of funds. The company has managed socially responsible investment funds for over seventeen years.

Products include the Jupiter Ecology Fund (launched in 1988) and the Jupiter Environmental Opportunities Fund (launched in 1999). The company also manages the Jupiter Global Green Investment Trust and the Lincoln Green Funds. It also provides segregated socially responsible investment services for private and institutional clients.

Jupiter's primary aim of achieving good investment results for its clients is undertaken by its specialist SRI Department headed by Emma Howard Boyd. Investment decisions are made by the specialist SRI Fund Management Team comprising of Charlie Thomas, Peter Hulse and Simon Baker (consultant). This department is guided by Jupiter's in-house SRI & Governance Team which comprises six members: Emma Howard Boyd, Simon Abrams, Aled Jones, Cynthia Pinniger, Susie Wood and Amie Rowlings (team administrator). The SRI & Governance Team is dedicated to the in-depth assessment of companies' environmental, social and corporate governance performance, with an emphasis on positive corporate behaviour.

The SRI & Governance Team places particular importance on engaging with company management during the research process. Through questionnaires, discussions, meetings and on-site visits, the SRI & Governance Team builds up a detailed picture of a company's environmental, social and corporate governance performance and is able to encourage measures for positive improvement.

Jupiter's SRI & Governance Team meets quarterly with its Advisory Committee, made up of senior environmentalists, who review companies approved by the SRI & Governance Team, offer advice on emerging environmental and social trends and guide the development of research methodology.
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King and Shaxson

6th Floor, 120 Cannon Street, London EC4N 6AS

Contact: Wayne Bishop

Tel: 020 7426 5950

Email: wayne.bishop@kasl.co.uk

Web: www.kingandshaxson.com

 


 

Legal & General Investment Management

1 Coleman Street, London EC2R 5AA

Contact: Andy Banks - Head of Corporate Governance

Tel: 020 3124 3000
Fax: 020 7634 0829

Email: andy.banks@lgim.co.uk
Web: www.lgim.com

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Marks & Spencer Money

Kings Meadow, Chester Business Park, Chester, CH99 9UT

Contact: Paul Shingler

 

Tel: 0124 466 6355

 

Email: Paul.Shingler@mandsmoney.com

Web: www.marksandspencer.com/money

 

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Marwyn Investment Management LLP

11 Buckingham Street, London WC2N 6DF

Contact: James Corsellis, Director

Tel: 020 7004 2700
Fax: 020 7004 2701

Email: jamescorsellis@marwyn.com
Web: www.marwyn.com

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Morley Fund Management

1 Poultry, London EC2R 8EJ

Contact: Steve Waygood, Head of SRI Engagement

Tel: 020 7809 6000
Fax: 020 7489 7940

Email:
Web: www.morleyfm.com

Based at No.1 Poultry Morley Fund Management is the Fund Management arm of CGNU, one of Europe's largest Life and General Insurers, with assets of £105bn in the UK and £200bn globally. Morley Fund Management are committed to integrating socially responsible investment principles into mainstream fund management in addition to managing a leading range of Sustainable Investment Funds.

In addition to managing 7 UK-based and 2 Luxembourg-based SRI funds, Morley Fund Management are committed to a systematic process of social and environmental corporate engagement. This is reinforced by Morley's corporate governance voting policy that for the first time in the UK requires FTSE100 companies to publish robust environmental statements as part of their annual report and accounts.

Members of the 10-strong Morley team have been managing SRI funds for over ten years with an enviable financial track record, including 5 micropal awards.

The parent company, CGNU constantly strives to improve its own environmental performance and this year published what we believe to be the UK's first Corporate Social Responsibility report from a finance sector company.

For further information please contact Noel Smyth, 0207 809 8197 or visit www.morleyfm.com
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Newton Investment Management

Mellon Financial Centre, 160 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4LA

Web: www.newton.co.uk

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Norwich Union

Contact: Nick Smithson

Tel: 01904 45 2599

Email: Nick.Smithson@norwich-union.co.uk
Web: www.norwichunion.com

Norwich Union is the largest insurer in the UK and part of the Aviva group, the world’s fifth largest insurance group. Norwich Union employs more than 30,000 people in over 21 locations across the UK.* Our primary business activities are long term savings and general insurance.

 

We are the leading long-term savings provider with a life market share of circa 12% and more than 6 million customers. Norwich Union is also the largest general insurer with an overall market share of 14% and 4.3 million customers, insuring one in five households, one in seven motor vehicles and more than 800,000 businesses in the UK.

 

Norwich Union has adopted the Aviva Corporate Social Responsibility policies and is fully committed to its aims and objectives. The four key principles of our CSR policies focus on being responsible to our customers, our staff, communities, and the climate. CSR is not about saying you’re doing the right thing – it’s about making sure it’s an everyday part of business, and at Norwich Union we strive to embed our principles across the whole organisation. Put simply, our CSR programme is an essential part of our business and one to which we will remain committed.

 

Norwich Union also believes that companies which are progressive on corporate responsibility issues, as well as environmental and social concerns, are better placed to achieve sustainable growth, gain a competitive advantage and deliver above average returns to investors. We offer six Sustainable Future Funds and one Ethical Fund, all of which are expertly managed by the large and experienced Sustainable Future team at Morley.

 

Even though size and strength may vary over time, investors benefit from Morley’s expertise and experience. Its strong reputation is based on integrity and investment performance, which is recognised by several endorsements and awards from independent sources.

 

* Aviva Corporate Social Responsibility Report, April 2007

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QUADRIS Environmental Investments Ltd

Regent House, 19-20 The Broadway, Woking, Surrey GU21 5AP

Contact: Ian Hook, Managing Director

Tel: 01483 756 800
Fax: 01483 776 800

Email: ian@quadris.co.uk
Web: www.quadris.co.uk

The activities of QUADRIS Group were established in the Netherlands during the early 1990's. In addition to their organisation in the Netherlands, QUADRIS now has offices in Germany, Spain and Brazil, as well as the United Kingdom. The core activity of the Group is to attract and manage funds for investment in commercial forestry projects, managed according to internationally recognised criteria for sustainability, such as the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Management by a Board of Directors, Commissioners and Advisers, with substantial track records in the fields of Finance and Forestry, provides QUADRIS with a high calibre of expertise.

In addition to meeting the positive ethical criteria for socially responsible investment, QUADRIS develops and initiates programmes to ensure that the educational and social welfare of the workforce and community is met and that the programme of rehabilitation and enhancement of the natural environment is maintained.

QUADRIS' aim is to ensure that the objectives of the ventures in which investments are held are in the long-term interests of investors and other parties to the venture, that socially and environmentally responsible policies are pursued and the holding of these investments will provide a secure and profitable return for clients.
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Rathbone Greenbank Investments

Prince House, Prince Street, Bristol BS1 4PS

Contact: Elizabeth Haigh

Tel: 0117 930 3000
Fax: 0117 929 1939

Email: greenbank@rathbones.com


Web: www.rathbonegreenbank.com

 

Rathbone Greenbank Investments provides personalised and professional investment management services for investors who want to ensure their investments take account of their environmental, social and ethical concerns.

We work with private individuals, trusts, charities, pension funds and their professional advisers.

Importantly, Rathbone Greenbank Investments only manages ethical and responsible investments. Understanding and interpreting environmental, social and ethical issues is integral to our business.

We work with over 500 clients across the UK and manage over £300 million in assets.1

Our team has been at the forefront of ethical and responsible investment since 1992, and launched one of the UK’s first tailored ethical portfolio services.

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RCM (UK) Ltd

155 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3AD

Contact: Bozena Jankowska, Head of Socially Responsible Investing

Tel: 020 7065 1468
Fax: 020 7628 6397

Email: bozena.jankowska@uk.rcm.com
Web: www.rcm.com

RCM (UK) Ltd is the marketing name for the equity platform of Allianz Dresdner Asset Management (UK) Ltd which is a member of the Allianz Dresdner Asset Management Marketing Group.

Allianz Dresdner Asset Management, the division within the Allianz Group responsible for asset management, has combined third-party assets of £399bn (as at 30 September 2003) and provides specialist active equity management through RCM.

RCM is a truly global asset management company with over 270 investment professionals worldwide and assets under management of £26.8bn as at 31 December 2003. RCM's investment philosophy is based on fundamental research and aims to identify market anomalies in the pricing of assets/securities to produce performance for its clients over the longer term.

Allianz Dresdner Asset Management has offices in 27 countries worldwide, whilst RCM has its primary investment offices in London, Frankfurt, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney. The investment professionals (both fund managers and analysts) in each centre cover their local regional markets, but contribute to the overall global equity platform which drives our investment process. Thus the organisation functions as one global investment platform, using a coherent investment philosophy.

RCM's SRI process is based on our partnership with the United Nations Association Trust (“UNA Trust"), the UK charitable and educational fund of the United Nations Association (UK). Encompassing global UN benchmarks for socially responsible standards of global business, these principles provide the underlying and pervasive philosophy that determines how our client SRI portfolios are put together, whereby:

“We approach SRI from a global perspective, believing that SRI criteria derived from internationally agreed United Nations principles provide the most comprehensive global benchmark against which to judge a company's environmental and social performance."

Focused equity and sector SRI analysis is undertaken by our in-house SRI unit to supplement the fundamental macro-economic and sectoral research conducted by our global team of analysts. This includes corporate engagement and governance, through the regular dialogue achieved as a result of the SRI research and selection process that feeds into our client SRI portfolios.

The research process focuses on understanding the ability of a business to:

  • Manage its significant environmental and social, tangible and intangible assets,
  • Respond to forthcoming policy and legislation,
  • Respond to the concerns of investors and stakeholders, and
  • Position itself competitively among its peers.
    In order to maintain this understanding, we endeavour to:
  • Build upon constructive dialogue with companies on specific issues that may have an impact on the long-term sustainability of the business,
  • Evaluate interested stakeholder views, and
  • Assess business response to these.

By adopting a structured and focused research process, we aim to provide a Socially Responsible Investment process and funds that not only tackle Corporate Social Responsibility but also provide financial results for our investors.
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Sarasin & Partners LLP

Juxon House, 100 St Paul's Churchyard, EC4M 8BU

Contact: Henry Boucher

Tel: 020 7038 7000

Web: www.sarasin.co.uk

 

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Schroder Investment Management (UK)

31 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7QA

Contact: Rick Stathers, SRI Manager

Tel: 020 7658 4645
Fax: 020 7658 3386

Email: richard.stathers@schroders.com
Web: www.schroders.com

As a company that is almost 200 years old, Schroders is one of the last remaining independent fund managers in the City. We have a global network and a total of UK£95bn under management. Our clients include local and public authorities, pension funds, charities, corporations, insurance companies, high net worth individuals and unit trust holders.

Schroders' primary investment objective is to achieve optimal financial returns for our clients (within agreed risk parameters and constraints). Providing that this objective is not compromised in the process, we do, however believe that it is also possible to develop a framework that, in the interests of our clients, allows a broader range of considerations, including environmental and social issues to be taken into account when selecting investments. Indeed the idea that quality companies, operating at an environmentally and socially sustainable level, are more likely to survive and deliver long-term shareholder value suggests that the analysis and understanding of non-financial criteria will offer additional assistance in identifying the long term winners.

As well as integrating social, ethical and environmental considerations into the investment process Schroders has adopted an engagement approach to SRI. In that we aim to encourage companies to move towards best environmental and social practice in order to minimise the non-financial risks our investments may be exposed to. Globally, we also manage UK£3.1bn under ethical mandates on behalf of our charity, private and religious clients.
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Skandia Investment Management

4th Floor, Skandia House, 23 College Hill, London EC4R 2SE

Contact: Frank Blighe

Tel: 023 8033 4411
Fax: 023 8048 1284

Email: frank.blighe@skandia.co.uk
Web: www.skandia.co.uk

The Ethical Portfolio has been available to investors since 1992 and offers a socially responsible alternative for investors who do not want to make investment decisions regarding asset allocation and fund management. The aim of the Portfolio is to achieve a rate of growth that is higher than the average achieved by other, comparable, Ethical funds over rolling 12-month periods. It is a diversified fund in terms of both assets and risk. Our Ethical Portfolio is unique because it holds a mixture of direct equities (stocks and shares), unit trusts and cash. All holdings must get through the Fund's strict ethical screening criteria. The unit trust basket gives our Ethical Portfolio an extra edge. As well as considering any existing ethical investments, it can invest in new ethical funds coming onto the market, some which are not available within life and pension plans elsewhere - an important advantage considering the growth of this area. Lee Coates of the Ethical Investors Group sums it up - "Why buy one ethical fund when you can buy them all?" The Ethical Portfolio is best placed amongst Ethical Life and Pension funds to exploit the rapid increase in available funds.

The ethical options available to Skandia Group investors are not limited to the Ethical Portfolio, which is available through Skandia Life and Professional Life. We also offer the following:

  • Aberdeen Ethical through Skandia MultiFUNDS
  • Credit Suisse Fellowship through Skandia MultiFUNDS
  • Framlington Health through Skandia Life and Skandia MultiFUNDS
  • Henderson Ethical through Skandia MultiFUNDS
  • Jupiter Ecology through Skandia MultiFUNDS and Royal Skandia

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Stargate Capital Investment Group

62-65 Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DS

Contact: Desiree Fixler

Tel: 020 7024 9740

Email: Desiree.Fixler@stargatecapital.co.uk  

Web: www.stargatecapital.co.uk

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Standard Life Investments

Standard Life House, 30 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH1 2DH, Scotland

Contact: Julie McDowell, Head of SRI Research

Tel: 0131 245 6872
Fax: 0131 245 6463

Email: julie_mcdowell@standardlife.com
Web: www.standardlife.com

Standard Life has been looking after its customers for over 180 years, and currently over 7 million people rely on us for their financial needs.

The group currently offers three ways to invest ethically. The Pension Ethical Fund is available through a variety of pension products and the Life Ethical Fund enables our investment bond customers to invest ethically. In addition, Standard Life Investments offers a UK Ethical Fund as part of its wide range of mutual funds.

All three of these funds exclude investments on the basis of negative criteria as stated in the Ethical Policy. This policy was developed based on research carried out with a large sample of IFAs and investors. We conduct research with our investors annually to confirm that the criteria continue to reflect their concerns. We use research from an independent research company to determine which companies comply with the requirements of the Ethical Policy. An Ethical Committee, comprised of senior managers from Standard Life and investors in the ethical funds, ensures the integrity of the Ethical Policy and provides assurance to investors that the process supporting this policy are robust.
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Threadneedle Investments

60 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8JQ

Contact: Therese Niklasson, Governance & Responsible Investment Analyst

Tel: 020 7464 5221
Fax: 020 7464 5912

Email: therese.niklasson@threadneedle.co.uk
Web: www.threadneedle.co.uk

Founded in 1994, Threadneedle Investments is one of the UK’s leading asset management firms, managing more than £72.2 billion of assets (Dec 2006) for a wide range of clients including pension schemes, insurance companies, private investors, corporations, mutual funds and affiliate group companies.

At Threadneedle, we believe that well governed companies will outperform over time and that analysis of governance, social, ethical and environmental factors should be incorporated into stock selection as they have the potential to significantly impact returns. Consequently, visible management of the risks and opportunities presented by these factors is integral to our investment decision-making process.

Key to our approach is engagement and dialogue with the companies in which we invest. As active investors we regularly meet with management and board members to exercise our influence in a positive and responsible manner. This is an important relationship, providing us with deeper understanding of the financial and extra-financial aspects of the business and focusing the management of these companies on our expectations.

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