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SAMPLE LIST OF COMPANIES ENGAGED

December 2017

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Hermes EOS is one of the leading providers of corporate engagement, intelligent voting, portfolio screening and advisory services. We provide a platform for like-minded investors to pool resources, creating a powerful force for positive change. We analyse our clients’ portfolios to identify companies for engagement. We select companies based on the responsible investment policies of our clients, the size of their holdings, materiality of the risks and likelihood of success and feasibility, materiality of the risks and likelihood of success and feasibility of achieving change through engagement.

Objectives

Hermes EOS focuses its resources on corporate, public policy and best practice engagements which add to or

protect the most value for its clients’ holdings and which safeguards their reputation. Specifically, the core client

objectives which we seek to influence through our engagement work are:

▪ Environment: Improved management of the risks arising from climate change; sustainable levels of consumption of global water resources; pollution of air, land and water reduced to below harmful levels and improved resource efficiency through better waste management, all while supporting long-term sustainable economic growth.

▪ Social and ethical: the advance of the long-term sustainability of the economy through respect for basic human and labour rights; the payment of appropriate levels of tax; good management of key social and ethical risks such as cyber security in both the company and in supply chains; the establishment of a diverse workforce, together with best practices in wider human capital management; and the development of an appropriate corporate culture and conduct, including the elimination of bribery and corruption, to support long-term sustainable value creation.

▪ Governance: Improvement of the governance of companies through better board composition and effectiveness, the alignment of executive remuneration with the creation of long-term value and the protection and enhancement of shareholder rights.

▪ Strategy, risk and communications: Deployment of a long-term sustainable business model and strategy; robust risk management practices and transparent disclosure of sufficient information to investors and wider stakeholders to make informed decisions on long-term investment.

Sample list of company engagements

This document contains a sample list of companies in the JØP portfolio which Hermes EOS has engaged with in

2017, with a high level indicator of the thematic areas we have discussed. The companies on this list represent

tier 1 and tier 2 engagements where we have set specific engagement objectives we seek to achieve. We have

included hyperlinks for the companies that have public case studies available.

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Sample of companies in the JØP portfolio which Hermes

EOS has engaged with in 2017

Company Environmental Social and Ethical Governance

Strategy, Risk and

Communication

3M Co ● ● ●

ABB Ltd ● ● ●

Abbott Laboratories ● ●

Aetna Inc ● ● ●

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ● ● ●

Allianz SE ● ●

Alphabet Inc ● ● ●

Altria Group Inc ●

Amazon.com Inc ● ● ● ●

America Movil SAB de CV ● ●

American International Group Inc ● ● ●

American Tower Corp ● ●

Amgen Inc ● ● ●

Anglo American PLC ● ● ● ●

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV ● ● ●

Antofagasta PLC ● ● ● ●

AP Moller - Maersk A/S ● ● ● ●

Apache Corp ● ● ●

Apple Inc ● ●

ArcelorMittal ● ● ●

Asahi Kasei Corp ●

Associated British Foods PLC ● ● ● ●

AstraZeneca PLC ● ● ●

AT&T Inc ● ●

Aviva PLC ● ● ●

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Sample of companies in the JØP portfolio which Hermes

EOS has engaged with in 2017

Company Environmental Social and Ethical Governance

Strategy, Risk and

Communication

AXA SA ● ● ●

Babcock International Group PLC ● ● ●

BAE Systems PLC ● ● ● ●

Baidu Inc ● ● ●

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA ● ● ● ●

Banco Santander SA ● ● ● ●

Bank of America Corp ● ● ● ●

Bank of Montreal ● ● ●

Bank of Nova Scotia/The ● ●

Barclays PLC ● ● ●

BASF SE ● ● ● ●

Bayer AG ● ● ●

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG ● ● ● ●

Berkshire Hathaway Inc ● ● ●

BHP Billiton PLC ● ● ● ●

BlackRock Inc ● ● ●

BNP Paribas SA ● ● ● ●

Boeing Co/The ● ●

BP PLC ● ● ● ●

Bridgestone Corp ● ● ●

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co ● ●

British American Tobacco PLC ● ● ● ●

Burberry Group PLC ● ● ●

Canon Inc ● ●

Capita PLC ● ● ●

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Sample of companies in the JØP portfolio which Hermes

EOS has engaged with in 2017

Company Environmental Social and Ethical Governance

Strategy, Risk and

Communication

Carlsberg A/S ● ● ●

Carnival Corp ● ● ●

Cemex SAB de CV ● ● ●

Centrica PLC ● ● ● ●

Chevron Corp ● ● ●

China Construction Bank Corp ● ●

China Everbright International Ltd ● ● ● ●

China Mobile Ltd ● ● ●

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp ● ● ● ●

Chubb Ltd ●

Cie Financiere Richemont SA ●

Citigroup Inc ● ● ● ●

CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd ● ● ●

Coca-Cola Co/The ● ● ●

Compass Group PLC ● ● ●

ConocoPhillips ● ● ● ●

Continental AG ●

Credit Suisse Group AG ● ● ●

Daimler AG ● ● ● ●

Danone SA ● ● ●

Deutsche Bank AG ● ● ● ●

Deutsche Boerse AG ● ● ●

Deutsche Telekom AG ● ●

Diageo PLC ● ● ●

Drax Group PLC ● ● ● ●

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Sample of companies in the JØP portfolio which Hermes

EOS has engaged with in 2017

Company Environmental Social and Ethical Governance

Strategy, Risk and

Communication

Duke Energy Corp ● ● ●

E.ON SE ● ●

East Japan Railway Co ● ● ●

eBay Inc ●

Ecopetrol SA ● ●

Electric Power Development Co Ltd ●

E-MART Inc ● ●

Empresas COPEC SA ● ● ●

Enel SpA ● ●

Engie SA ● ● ●

Eni SpA ● ● ● ●

EOG Resources Inc ● ●

Equifax Inc ● ● ●

Exelon Corp ● ●

Exxon Mobil Corp ● ● ●

FANUC Corp ● ● ●

Fast Retailing Co Ltd ● ●

Fomento Economico Mexicano SAB de CV ● ● ●

Freeport-McMoRan Inc ● ● ●

Fresenius SE & Co KGaA ●

FUJIFILM Holdings Corp ● ●

G4S PLC ● ● ●

Gazprom PJSC ● ● ●

General Electric Co ● ●

General Mills Inc ● ● ●

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Sample of companies in the JØP portfolio which Hermes

EOS has engaged with in 2017

Company Environmental Social and Ethical Governance

Strategy, Risk and

Communication

GKN PLC ●

GlaxoSmithKline PLC ● ● ●

Glencore PLC ● ● ● ●

Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The ● ● ● ●

Grupo Mexico SAB de CV ● ●

Grupo Televisa SAB ●

Hana Financial Group Inc ● ● ● ●

Heineken NV ● ●

Hennes & Mauritz AB ● ●

Home Depot Inc/The ● ●

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd ● ● ● ●

HSBC Holdings PLC ● ●

Hyundai Motor Co ● ● ● ●

Iberdrola SA ● ● ●

Imperial Brands PLC ● ● ● ●

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd ● ● ●

Infosys Ltd ● ●

ING Groep NV ● ● ●

Inpex Corp ● ● ● ●

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC ●

International Business Machines Corp ●

Japan Tobacco Inc ● ● ●

Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd ● ●

Johnson & Johnson ● ● ●

JPMorgan Chase & Co ● ● ● ●

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Sample of companies in the JØP portfolio which Hermes

EOS has engaged with in 2017

Company Environmental Social and Ethical Governance

Strategy, Risk and

Communication

Kansai Electric Power Co Inc/The ● ● ● ●

KB Financial Group Inc ● ● ● ●

Kerry Group PLC ● ● ●

Kinder Morgan Inc/DE ● ●

Kirin Holdings Co Ltd ● ● ●

Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize NV ● ● ●

Korea Electric Power Corp ● ● ● ●

Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd ● ● ● ●

Kyocera Corp ● ●

Leonardo SpA ● ● ●

LG Chem Ltd ● ● ● ●

Linde AG ● ●

Lockheed Martin Corp ● ● ●

LUKOIL PJSC ● ● ● ●

Marks & Spencer Group PLC ● ● ● ●

McDonald's Corp ● ● ● ●

McKesson Corp ●

Medtronic PLC ● ● ● ●

Merck & Co Inc ● ●

Mitsubishi Corp ● ●

Mitsubishi Motors Corp ● ●

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc ● ● ●

Mizuho Financial Group Inc ● ● ●

MMC Norilsk Nickel PJSC ● ● ●

Mondelez International Inc ● ● ●

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Sample of companies in the JØP portfolio which Hermes

EOS has engaged with in 2017

Company Environmental Social and Ethical Governance

Strategy, Risk and

Communication

Monsanto Co ● ●

Morgan Stanley ● ● ● ●

MTN Group Ltd ● ●

National Grid PLC ● ● ● ●

NAVER Corp ● ● ● ●

Nestle SA ● ● ● ●

Nintendo Co Ltd ● ● ●

Nissan Motor Co Ltd ● ● ●

Nomura Holdings Inc ● ● ●

Novartis AG ● ● ● ●

Novo Nordisk A/S ● ●

NTT DOCOMO Inc ● ●

Occidental Petroleum Corp ● ● ●

Olympus Corp ● ●

Oracle Corp ●

Panasonic Corp ● ●

PepsiCo Inc ● ● ●

PetroChina Co Ltd ● ● ● ●

Petrofac Ltd ● ● ● ●

Petroleo Brasileiro SA ● ● ● ●

Pfizer Inc ● ● ● ●

POSCO ● ● ● ●

Priceline Group Inc/The ● ● ●

Procter & Gamble Co/The ● ●

Prudential PLC ● ● ●

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Sample of companies in the JØP portfolio which Hermes

EOS has engaged with in 2017

Company Environmental Social and Ethical Governance

Strategy, Risk and

Communication

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC ● ● ● ●

Reliance Industries Ltd ● ● ● ●

RELX PLC ● ●

Renault SA ● ● ●

Repsol SA ● ● ● ●

Rio Tinto PLC ● ● ● ●

Roche Holding AG ● ● ●

Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC ● ● ● ●

Royal Bank of Canada ●

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC ● ● ● ●

Royal Dutch Shell PLC ● ● ● ●

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd ● ● ● ●

Sanofi ● ● ●

SAP SE ● ● ●

Sasol Ltd ● ● ● ●

Sberbank of Russia PJSC ● ● ● ●

Schlumberger Ltd ● ● ● ●

Schneider Electric SE ● ● ●

Seven & i Holdings Co Ltd ● ● ●

Severn Trent PLC ● ● ● ●

Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd ● ● ● ●

Siemens AG ● ● ●

SK Hynix Inc ● ● ●

Societe Generale SA ● ● ●

Sony Corp ● ● ● ●

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Sample of companies in the JØP portfolio which Hermes

EOS has engaged with in 2017

Company Environmental Social and Ethical Governance

Strategy, Risk and

Communication

Southern Co/The ● ●

SSE PLC ● ● ● ●

Standard Chartered PLC ● ● ●

State Street Corp ● ●

Statoil ASA ● ● ● ●

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc ● ● ●

Suzano Papel e Celulose SA ● ●

Suzuki Motor Corp ● ● ● ●

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd ● ●

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd ● ●

Telecom Italia SpA/Milano ●

Telefonica SA ● ●

Tencent Holdings Ltd ● ● ● ●

Tesco PLC ● ● ● ●

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd ● ● ●

TJX Cos Inc/The ●

Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings Inc ● ● ●

Toray Industries Inc ● ● ●

Toronto-Dominion Bank/The ● ●

Toshiba Corp ● ● ●

TOTAL SA ● ● ●

Toyota Motor Corp ● ● ●

Twenty-First Century Fox Inc ● ●

Tyson Foods Inc ● ●

UBS Group AG ● ● ●

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Sample of companies in the JØP portfolio which Hermes

EOS has engaged with in 2017

Company Environmental Social and Ethical Governance

Strategy, Risk and

Communication

UniCredit SpA ● ● ●

Uni-President Enterprises Corp ● ● ●

United Utilities Group PLC ● ●

UnitedHealth Group Inc ● ● ●

Vale SA ● ● ● ●

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc ● ● ●

Vedanta Resources PLC ● ● ●

Veolia Environnement SA ● ● ●

Verizon Communications Inc ● ● ●

Vinci SA ● ●

Volkswagen AG ● ● ●

Wal-Mart Stores Inc ● ● ●

Walt Disney Co/The ●

Wells Fargo & Co ● ●

Whitbread PLC ● ●

Wirecard AG ● ● ● ●

WPP PLC ● ●

Zijin Mining Group Co Ltd ● ● ● ●

Zurich Insurance Group AG ● ● ●

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should not be construed as due to negative performance in the thematic area noted in this document. This

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