Champlain Solidarité

ISIN Code : FR0010608521

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Simplified Prospectus : Champlain Solidarité

Monthly management report : April 2012

Subscription Note (obligatory document) : Champlain Solidarité

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Context:

For Financière de Champlain, safeguarding the environment represents only one of the components for a sustainable development. Sustainable growth cannot be achieved without human development. And yet, world growth has rarely been seen at the same time as such an explosion in inequalities, set against a backdrop of urgent social issues.

Both through its longstanding support for integration associations and through its company culture focused on respect for values, Financière de Champlain has always put the human dimension at the heart of its philosophy. In our CSR management, social criteria are also at the forefront in terms of our ratings.

With the launch of Champlain Solidarité, in June 2008, Financière de Champlain is truly upholding its convictions by offering a shared return fund, on which 75% of revenues available for distribution will be paid back to seven associations operating in three areas:

  • Protection of underprivileged children,
  • Fight against exclusion (social, disability)
  • Assistance for the elderly.

This fund aims to ensure the consistency of this solidarity dimension with the makeup of the portfolio through an SRI management approach.

Objectives:

  • Outperform the ASPI Eurozone index over the medium term

Management methodology:

  • Over 60% equity exposure
  • European mid caps
  • Combining growth and returns

The management methodology is the same as that used on our SRI fund Performance Responsable, i.e.:

  • Exclusion (arms, tobacco, alcohol, animal testing, nuclear, chemical and oil industry, etc.)
  • Application of a financial filter
  • Non-financial analysis grid (SRI) based on 120 criteria focusing on social and environmental dimensions
  • Field audits through a partnership with the rating agency Ethifinance

Portfolio makeup:

A target for 30 to 50 lines, including outstanding companies in terms of social responsibility, such as:

  • Séché Environnement: waste processing
  • Touax: river barges
  • Auréa: recycling
  • ABC Arbitrage: financial services

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages:
This fund aims to deliver performance over the medium term by using non-financial rating criteria (social, community, environmental and governance), guaranteeing the long-term viability of the business and expressing our convictions. In addition, a significant percentage (75%) of the fund’s distributable income is paid back, on an equiweighted basis, to the fund’s partner associations, which are making a direct and lasting contribution to solidarity.

Disadvantages
The current strong mid and small cap component and very strict exclusion practices for sectors that are deemed to be non-ethical may, over the short term, decorrelate the fund’s performance from that of major indexes.
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