Hermes Investment Management provides active investment strategies and stewardship. Our goal is to help people invest better, retire better and create a better society for all.

Our heritage and understanding, informed by our unique ownership, has enabled us to put this into practice since 1983 – firstly to manage the assets of our owner, the BT Pension Scheme, and more recently to offer our skills to a growing range of external customers from institutions to advised private investors.

We concentrate on areas where our expertise can add most value for our investors – whether through specialist skills or accessing specialist investment opportunities such as private debt or infrastructure investments that might previously have been either unavailable or too expensive.

As manager to one of the largest pension funds in Europe, we have always taken a stakeholder view to investment – investing not only for returns, but holistically. The decisions that we make with the money of our clients will shape the society that they, their families, their children and their neighbours will live in.

We offer actively-managed public and private market solutions to investors across the globe, managing £29 billion for more than 430 clients in 27 different locations across the world. However, we believe that our duty extends beyond achieving clients’ financial outcomes: we must act as stewards of the investments we manage and advise. In 2004 we established Hermes Equity Ownership Services (Hermes EOS), which is now one of the largest stewardship teams in the industry, advising on £237 billion of assets and counting some of the world’s leading pension funds as clients.

Our investment solutions include:

Private markets: International real estate, UK commercial real estate, UK private rental sector real estate, infrastructure and private equity

High active share equities: Asia, global emerging markets, Europe, US, global and small and mid cap

Credit: Absolute return credit, global high yield, multi strategy credit, real estate debt, direct lending

Multi asset: Multi asset inflation.

Responsible Investment Services: Corporate engagement, intelligent voting and public policy engagement.

Source: *Please note the total AUM figure includes £5.4 billion of assets managed or under an advisory agreement by Hermes GPE LLP (“HGPE”), a joint venture between Hermes Fund Managers Limited (“HFM”) and GPE Partner Limited. HGPE is an independent entity and not part of the Hermes group. £0.2 billion of total group AUM figure represents HFM mandates under advice. Source: Hermes as at 30 September 2016.