Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Natixis Investment Managers is committed to supporting diversity and to creating an inclusive and equitable culture. Our business is about people, and we strive to ensure the well-being of our employees and to create an environment responsive to different cultures and groups in all our interactions with employees, clients, visitors, suppliers, contractors, shareholders, investors and in the communities in which we operate. We value diversity; we believe it to be important to business success and integral to achieving our strategic objectives.

Natixis Investment Managers recognizes the potential that all people bring to the workplace.

Employees have the right to be treated with respect and dignity throughout their employment with Natixis Investment Managers and not to be discriminated against in any way. We have a zero tolerance policy to bullying, harassment, victimization and racism of any kind.

We seek to achieve higher standards than the minimum set out in legislation, and we will proactively encourage a culture that supports diversity and equal opportunity.

• To actively support and promote diversity, equity and inclusion and to ensure that all our employees are valued and treated with dignity and respect.
• To strive continually to provide employees with a working environment that is free from all forms of discrimination.
• To ensure that managers work in partnership with employees to create and sustain an inclusive working environment where everyone’s unique contribution is valued.
• To ensure that decisions affecting employment, training, promotion and career development are based on an individual’s ability and genuine occupational requirements.
• To comply with relevant legislation by requiring all employees to meet the minimum standards of behavior and conduct in relation to how they treat their colleagues and other people they have contact with as part of their work with Natixis Investment Managers.
• To regularly review the policy and its practical application and continue to make any updates towards identifying and eliminating any potentially discriminatory practices.
• To provide employees and managers with the appropriate information, via this policy, on diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace, and to provide Diversity Equity & Inclusion training for all employees.
• To make adjustments to meet the needs of disabled employees, visitors and clients where reasonable and practicable to do so.
• To ensure all internal publications and material reflect, in the language and images, the diversity of our employees and clients.
• To provide investment products, solutions and services to our clients without any form of unlawful discrimination and/or harassment.

As a global player, Natixis Investment Managers recruits people from all around the world. We believe that our employees from many different cultural, racial, linguistic and national backgrounds provide us with the valuable knowledge for understanding complex global markets, and allow us to better support our clients wherever they are based. We have established programs that provide opportunities to identify talented women and individuals from ethnic and other under-represented backgrounds for recruitment, with the end goal for them to become high achieving professionals, while we invest in pipeline opportunities for high performing employees from all backgrounds and demographics.

A more recent initiative is the Natixis Scholarship Program. The financial industry historically has not done enough to attract diverse talent from an early age. A focus of our diversity, equity and inclusion program is to develop a pipeline of diverse talent early enough so they receive the academic training and internship experience needed to succeed in the financial industry. Just as important, we aim to inspire promising candidates to pursue a career in asset management and build a career with us. To expand those efforts, we will be creating a scholarship program for university students from under-represented minority groups, which we hope will help bring diversity to our industry and contribute to our talent pool at Natixis IM. Scholarships will be granted to two students with a demonstrated financial need who are majoring in business, and we will support and develop the students through internships and mentoring from our team. We will pilot this program in the US, where we can build on existing university partnerships and mentoring programs, and look to expand to other locations.

Natixis Investment Managers endeavors to attract applicants from all sections of society and we strive to reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate. We will ensure fair treatment through the recruitment process. This includes:

• Checking that job descriptions are relevant and non-discriminatory.
• Ensuring that the wording and images used in job advertisements reflect and appeal to all sections of society and comply with the law.
• Seeking a diverse pool of qualified candidates for each position.
• Ensuring that all roles are available to internal candidates.
• Short-listing only those people whose skills and qualifications most closely match the job description.
• Asking fair, objective and consistent questions during interviews.
• Keeping records of the recruitment and selection process, including interviews.
• Monitoring recruitment and selection to ensure equality of opportunity throughout the process and taking steps to eliminate any discriminatory practices.

To get an accurate picture of Natixis Investment Managers and to identify any inequalities, we will aim to collect, on a voluntary basis, individual personal information on the diversity of potential recruits and existing employees. Our intention is to issue staff surveys and encourage all existing staff to complete these, if possible. The objective is to be able to provide everyone with the appropriate support groups and help they may need, and employees’ assistance to do that is critical.

All personal data is held securely and processed in compliance with the Data Protection Act, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and any Codes of Practice that have been issued by the Information Commissioner or relevant bodies in different countries.