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Shareholder engagement
Phitrust Active Investors favours companies with good ESG practices who listen to their shareholders, combining engagement and financial performance.
Supporting social entrepreneurs
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Measuring impact
Measurement criteria are defined at the initial stage of the investment. Phitrust carries out annual reviews to assess the level of impact achieved by each project.
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Engaged and responsible shareholders
Among listed companies
1 665
private initiatives presented to executives and boards of directors
40
public initiatives (oral and written questions in annual general meetings)
39
external resolutions filed since 2004
1,71%
outperformance versus CAC 40 div. reinv. since 2011
14
years of constructive dialogue with the heads of European listed companies
With social enterprises in 2016
91 116
jobs created or enabled
4 235
socially inclusive jobs
604
jobs for people with disabilities
113 034
tonnes of CO2 emissions avoided
87 761
micro entrepreneurs supported
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Phitrust encourages CAC 40 Companies to join the “Science Based Targets” initiative
Phitrust, along with the investors of the Phitrust Active Investors France fund, has sent written questions to the executive boards of 34 companies listed on the CAC40 index in preparation of their 2018 Annual General Meetings, encouraging their participation in the Science Based Targets initiative.
News
Alstom acquired by Siemens: but what do the shareholders do?
At a General Meeting held on 17 July 2018, the shareholders voted in favour of the acquisition of Alstom by Siemens. What a pathetic decision, when at the announcement of the discussions with Siemens the executives and the board of directors sold the idea of a “merger between equals”!
The takeover of Alstom by Siemens presented as a merger “between equals“
Without contesting the strategic interest of the merger between these firms, this operation being presented as a merger “between equals” which is – if it is approved in these conditions – a takeover of Alstom by Siemens, and harms the minority shareholders with an insufficient control premium and is unsatisfactory in terms of governance.
Executive compensation: what do shareholders do?
Once again this year, executive compensation has created a media buzz about some emblematic cases, because they are too decorrelated from the economic and social reality of the company.