Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.6 Fte (6)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Federated Hermes Limited (FHL)
EU Transparency Register
577757624718-90 First registered on 25 Nov 2016
Goals / Remit
Federated Hermes is guided by the conviction that responsible investing is the best way to create long-term wealth. We provide specialised capabilities across equity, fixed income and private markets, in addition to multi-asset strategies and proven liquidity-management solutions. Through our world-leading stewardship services, we engage companies on strategic and sustainability concerns to promote investors’ long-term performance and fiduciary interests.
Our goals are to help individuals invest and retire better, to help clients achieve better risk-adjusted returns, and where possible, to contribute to positive outcomes in the wider world. Our fiduciary heritage and expertise in responsible investment ensure that our clients’ interests come first and that we support positive change in the wider world. We believe that investing responsibly is the best way to sustain long-term outperformance and contributes to beneficial outcomes for investors, companies, society and the environment.Main EU files targeted
As part of our responsibility philosophy, we are not content to simply follow investment orthodoxies but instead look to highlight and constructively challenge areas where we believe we in the industry are failing in order to improve the contribution of the financial services industry to society. We do this because we believe that we in the finance industry are in a privileged position, but importantly, one in which we are acting as fiduciaries on behalf of others. As such it is incumbent upon to us ensure that the system in which we operate is working on behalf of those whom we serve. We seek progressive change in the capital markets.
The EU initiatives, policies and legislative files we currently focus on are regulation and initiatives relating to the Renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy, including Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, EU Taxonomy, green bonds standards, sustainable corporate governance, corporate reporting including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, and climate goals, including sector-specific policy such as transport, renewable energy, energy efficiency and green buildings, UCITs, AIFMDs & MMFs.Address
Head Office
150 Cheapside
London EC2V 6ET
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
150 Cheapside
London EC2V 6ET
UNITED KINGDOMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
6
Employment time Lobbyists 10% 6 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.6
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
We are involved in the following memberships and networks (including organisations where we hold an advisory or committee position, but where we may not hold a firm-wide membership) are:
30% Club - Investor Group
Asia Investor Group on Climate Change
Asian Corporate Governance Association
Associação de Investidores no Mercado de Capitais
Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate
Association of Property Lenders
Banking Standards Board
Best Practice Principles Group for shareholder voting research (BPPG)
Better Buildings Partnership
Biopharma Sustainability Roundtable
British Academy Future of the Corporation Project
British Council for Offices
British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association
British Property Federation
Business in the Community
Canadian Coalition of Good Governance
CDP
CECP: The CEO Force for Good
Ceres
CFA UK
Change the Race Ratio
Climate Action 100+
Common Good Foundation
Council of Institutional Investors
CREFC
Dansif
Diversity Project
EFAMA
Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion
Enacting Purpose Initiative
Energy Efficiency Financial Institutions Group (EEFIG)
Eumedion
Eurofi
European Leveraged Finance Association
Eurosif
FAIRR
FCA-PRA Climate Financial Risk Forum
Finance for Biodiversity Foundation
Financing a Just Transition Alliance
Financing a UK Nature Recovery Initiative
FIR (French Social Investment Forum)
Focusing Capital on the Long Term
Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)
Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction
Global Canopy Aligned Accountability Project
Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
Global Infrastructure Investor Association
Global Institutional Governance Network
Global Investor Coalition on Climate Change
Global Network Initiative
Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark
High Meadows Institute Leaders Forum
HMT Asset Management Taskforce
Human Capital Management Coalition
ICI Global
Impact Investing Institute
Impact Management Project
INREV
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change
International Corporate Governance Network
Invest Europe
Investing in Just Transition
Investment Association
Investor Action on Antimicrobial Resistance
Investor Alliance for Human Rights
Investor Forum
Investors and Indigenous Peoples Working Group
Investors Policy Dialogue on Deforestation in Brazil
Irish Funds
Japan Climate Initiative
Japan Corporate Governance Network
JapanSIF
Loan Market Association
Natural Capital Investment Alliance
Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative
Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum
One Planet
Partnership for Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF)
Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) UK
Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association
Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI)
Quoted Companies Alliance
Revo
Supporter Network of SPOTT
The 300 Club
Thinking Ahead Institute
Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI)
Transparency Taskforce Initiative
UK Green Building Council
UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association
UK-China Green Finance Task Force
UN Global Compact
UNEP FI
Value Reporting Foundation (International Integrated Reporting Council/Sustainability Accounting Standards Board)
Workforce Disclosure InitiativeMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount patrice berge-vincent 50,000€ - 99,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name patrice berge-vincent Closed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
We carry out our EU advocacy to ensure the financial system works in the best interests of our clients and end-beneficiaries collectively.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Our Policies and Disclosures are available at: https://www.hermes-investment.com/policies-and-disclosures/
We also publish consultation responses at: https://www.hermes-investment.com/stewardship/eos-library/
Further publications are available on our Insights page: https://www.hermes-investment.com/insights/
Examples of our publications relating to EU policy include:
- https://www.hermes-investment.com/uki/insight/outcomes/future-financial-footprints-europe-takes-next-steps-on-sustainability/
- https://www.hermes-investment.com/uki/insight/outcomes/blowing-smoke-and-fogging-mirrors-why-the-european-auto-sector-is-a-long-way-from-paris/Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
4 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 28 Apr 2022 Location Brussels Subject EU priorities regarding regulated investment funds including MMF Regulation review and AIFM/UCITS Directives review Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Feb 2022 Location Paris Subject MMF reforms and STFMs improving AIFMD/UCITS reviews ESG sustainable finance Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Jun 2021 Location Video-call Subject Discussion on sustainable food systems Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Jun 2018 Location Brussels Subject Sustainable Finance and Fiduciary Duty Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
- Elina Melngaile (Cabinet member)