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Construction

A fast-changing world offers many opportunities. It also comes with great uncertainty and challenges that develop our abilities and test our ambitions, perspectives and determination. This determination translates into one goal: to generate long-term sustainable investment returns for our clients, based on a unique sustainability-driven philosophy.

We have been committed to sustainability since 2002 and have continued to strengthen our ambition, our investment philosophy and our management processes to take ESG considerations into account and promote a low carbon, environmentally sustainable and inclusive economy.

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We believe it takes all of us to be a key driver of the shift to positive investing. Only a company where people work together can embrace this changing world. At BNP Paribas Asset Management, we are the sum of our people – a group of interesting individuals with different backgrounds and cultures – and we expect companies we work with to aim for the same standards.

Environment

The construction industry includes three major sectors: residential building; non-residential building such as commercial premises to educational and recreational facilities; and engineering construction including transport, electrical and water infrastructure facilities (De Valence, 2010). In the context of statistical data, the following sectors and fields apply (Barlow, 2012): (i) the building construction sector, with civil engineering and built environment and design being the key fields; (ii) the heavy and civil engineering construction sector, with key fields being civil engineering, interdisciplinary engineering, resources engineering, and information and computing sciences; and (iii) the construction services sector, with activity in fields including civil engineering, built environment and design, information and computing sciences and mechanical engineering.

Our investment processes, which embed sustainability, use quantitative and fundamental research to help our portfolio managers generate alpha. Our solutions combine these capabilities in order to answer our clients’ requirements with the most relevant offer. To achieve this we manage assets across the globe by keeping an open mind and by staying true to our convictions. Our experts around the world constantly investigate secular trends and sustainability shifts, supported by in-depth fundamental investment analysis and proprietary ESG scoring, while our robust risk framework combined with our quantitative techniques leads to better investment and asset allocation decisions.

The industrial construction sector will be supported by improvement in mining, manufacturing, and export activities, coupled with the government’s focus on strengthening the manufacturing sector and correcting vulnerabilities in its supply chains.