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7 October 2024 |
Sustainable
What three lessons have the SDG Engagement High Yield Credit team learned in the half decade since inception?
Five years since launch: An SDG Engagement High Yield Credit retrospective

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Lifetime engagement stats

  • 1,872 engagement actions
  • 180 companies engaged
  • A team of seven working on the Strategy
  • 98 completed objectives

“Now is the time for fixed income markets to take heed” – Saker Nusseibeh, Hermes CEO, on the launch of our original sustainability strategy, SDG1 Engagement High Yield in 2019.

Born out of the success of its cousin over on the equity desk, the Federated Hermes SDG Engagement High Yield Credit Strategy quickly established itself at the heart of our ‘mainstream’ product range when it first launched half a decade ago.

Five years on, the world, and the team, look very different. For a start, at inception we had just one engager.  As the Strategy grew, so did the number of companies in the portfolio, and therefore the number of engagers needed. Today, we have seven dedicated analysts contributing to the Strategy sitting in London and Pittsburgh, as well as the nearly 30 engagers in the EOS team – a truly international capability.

Read our five-year retrospective to understand the other changes on the strategy and what lessons the investment and engagement teams have learned in the years since launch…

Five years since launch: An SDG Engagement High Yield Credit retrospective

1 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The SDGs are a set of 17 interconnected goals that were adopted by all UN member states in 2015. They are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of everyone, everywhere, by 2030. Learn more here.

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Five years since launch: An SDG Engagement High Yield Credit retrospective

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