FRR to adopt SRI approach for European mandates

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FRANCE - The e16bn Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR) said that it would concentrate its socially responsible investment (SRI) approach initially on eurozone and non-euro Europe large cap equities mandates worth around e3bn.

The fund said that it had decided to adopt the SRI approach as it felt that “broadening the scope of risk analysis to encompass social and environmental factors has a positive impact on financial ...

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