NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENTS!
Today, BNP Paribas Wealth Management, one of the leading global private banks for sustainability, held a press conference in London focusing on our ambitions to promote sustainable investments, which our clients are increasingly demanding.
In the presence of the international press, Eléonore Bedel (Head of SRI and Impact Investing), shared our vision, while Manuela Maccia (Director Products & Services for France) and Garth Bregman (Head of Investments Services for Asia-Pacific) showcased trends in client expactations from France and from Asia.
A GROWING DEMAND FOR SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENTS
We have seen a growing appetite for sustainable investments from our clients who want to align investments with their values. (Source: BNP Paribas Global Entrepreneur Report 2018).
- 39% of Elite entrepreneurs now consider "positive impact" to be core to how they evaluate their business performance, versus 10% two years before, driven by women and millenials.
- 55% of entrepreneurs have already committed a proportion of their wealth to achieve socially-responsible outcomes
Discover 2018 BNP Paribas Global Entrepreneurs Report
To answer this demand, we are developing new solutions to extend sustainable investments to our clients around the world.
FOR YEARS, WE HAVE ACCOMPANIED OUR CLIENTS' EXPECTATIONS IN THIS FIELD
BNP Paribas Wealth Management was one of the first private banks to launch an SRI offering 13 years ago. We have reached today €15bn of client assets in sustainable investments (SRI) with a strong short-term goal to reach €20bn by 2020.
Our ambition is to integrate ESG criteria across our entire investment process.
myImpact: AN INNOVATIVE TOOL TO DEFINE YOUR IMPACT PROFILE!
Co-constructed with over 100 clients using an agile methodology, myImpact helps our clients to define their positive social and environmental impact profile. BNP Paribas Wealth Management can then propose a tailored investment and philanthropic strategy aligned with their values.
myImpact is a key part of our clients journey to achieve more positive social and environmental outcomes!
THE VOICE OF OUR EXPERTS
Our experience in Europe and in France in particular demonstrates the strong client appetite for sustainable investments. Similarly, in Asia, our teams work regularly with trailblazing family offices leading the market by leveraging SRI as one of the key goals of their investment strategy.
THE VOICE OF OUR CLIENTS
"I am proud to contribute to the SRI offering co-construction"
"myImpact encourages to ask the good questions about the impact of our investments"
"I discovered a new way to think about my investments and align them with my values and interests"