HSBC Asset Management has appointed Fatima Hadj and Laëtitia Tankwe to newly created senior roles in its sustainability team.
Based in London, Hadj joins as climate investment strategist and will ensure climate considerations are embedded across the fund group’s platform and work with the investment team to identify climate-related risks and opportunities in portfolios.
She has over 20 years’ experience, with senior roles at Tikehau Capital, Standard & Poor’s, and Moody’s. She is currently chair of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) committee for ESG integration in securitised products, a role she has held since inception, and is a member of the steering committee behind the PRI and UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative collaboration on bank loans and related products.
Hadj will report to Stuart Kirk, global head of research and responsible investments.
Tankwe (pictured) steps into the role of head of sustainability implementation and assurance and will create the frameworks for HSBC AM’s sustainability commitments to customers and industry partners.
Prior to this, she was the responsible investment adviser to the president of the French public sector pension scheme, Caisse des dépôts Group, and held an array of consultancy and analyst roles in firms including Banque Populaire Méditerranée and BNP Paribas.
She will be based in Paris and report to Erin Leonard, head of sustainability.
Last month Jupiter poached HSBC AM’s sustainability boss, Sandra Carlisle, to lead its own responsible investing push.
