RPI Annual Report 2008 Overview


           
   

Meeting our responsibilities
by widening our perspectives

Our responsibility to our clients is to deliver consistent and outperforming levels of investment returns.

By sharing responsibility for enhancing a building’s sustainability, we believe we can improve its value. By taking responsibility for a property’s immediate neighbourhood, we can increase its attractiveness to local communities and users and thus improve long term investment returns. And by taking responsibility for research into the effects of climate change we can understand and limit its impacts on our assets.

Responsible Property Investment is the approach we take on all of Hermes Real Estate’s activities. This is not an add-on; it is a value driver.

This approach benefits many people, directly and indirectly, but above all benefits our investors.

 

Hermes RPI Performance
Targets by 2010 against a 2006 baseline for our directly managed portfolio
20% CO2 emmissions reduction
20% Water
Consumption reduction
Zero Waste direct
to landfill
 
Portfolio measured through our management programme in 2007
78% directly managed properties measure energy, water and waste through our responsible property management programme