Ostrum Asset Management (Ostrum AM), an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, has appointed Nathalie Beauvir, previously a senior analyst responsible for sustainable bond research at the company, as its head of the newly created sustainable transitions department.

The department is based on a dual approach linking both corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues to support the company’s role as a committed partner in the transitions of all its stakeholders.

The team, led by Beauvir and comprising five ESG and two CSR experts, has been tasked with strengthening the company’s strategic positioning on ESG, optimizing the interdependence of the various associated investment policies and developing the company’s ESG offering.

Beauvir began her career at Société Générale CIB in 2000 in equity derivatives sales, before specializing in credit, where she successively held the positions of analyst, collateralised debt obligation structurer and portfolio manager. She joined Kepler Cheuvreux in 2014, where she developed an ESG credit research offering with a focus on the development of the green bond market. At the end of 2016, she joined LBPAM, where she oversaw the analysis and research relating to sustainable bonds. Following the merger of LBPAM’s fixed-income and insurance activities within Ostrum AM, she joined the research and socially responsible investing teams as head of sustainable bond analysis and research.

Olivier Houix, the asset management firm’s CEO, says Beauvir has proven expertise “in sustainability, responsible investment and ESG issues”.