NATIXIS - Meeting notice combined general shareholder's meeting

MANAGEMENT REPORT AT DECEMBER 31, 2018

› Natixis Investment Managers rounded out its global equity offering and hired a team of senior thematic portfolio managers. In addition to the Company’s existing global equity offering, investors will have access to a wide range of highly active, high conviction thematic strategies. Themes will include water, security, artificial intelligence and robotics. Thematic investing meets a growing demand from investors to ensure their portfolios address the crucial challenges and trends transforming our world. Over the course of 11 years, this teamof senior portfoliomanagers has developed and launched a range of thematic funds. Together, they were involved in the management of more than €21Ʉbillion. In 2019, they will launch a new range of thematic funds, starting with water, security, artificial intelligence and robotics. Natixis IM earned the following distinctions in the second half of 2018: › Cerulli Associates Top 50 asset management companies: Natixis Investment Managers was ranked 16th-largest global asset management company, down one rung; › the 2018 Citywire France Awards took place in Paris on SeptemberɄ18, 2018. Natixis Investment Managers received a number of awards including: ◆ Best Asset Management Company in the Global Flexible Bonds category, ◆ Bruno Crastes, CEO of H20 AM, winner of Best Fund Manager in the Global Flexible BondsɄcategory, ◆ Louis Bert and Stéphane Furet, CIO and CEO of Dorval AM, won Best Fund Manager in the French Equity category, ◆ the Natixis Investment Managers brand took top honors at the Broadridge Distribution Achievement Awards in Europe by being named “Rising Star” in the brand category . Natixis Wealth Management continued to leverage its impressive sales performance to successfully complete in 2018 the first step in streamlining its business model, which is now focused on the wealth management segment. Implementing this strategy involved the following initiatives: › a communications campaign to raise the profile of the new brand; › the sale of Sélection 1818; Natixis Wealth Management has also invested significantly in digital technology and is gradually integrating new features into its digital onboarding interface. Parallel to this, the Company is working on the “augmented banking” concept and is rolling out Compositeur Digital software, which allows bankers to conduct client meetings remotely, with all the necessary tools provided on a tablet. Highlights for VEGA Investment Managers in 2018 included the creation of a range of thematic funds (VEGA Disruption, VEGA Durable and VEGA Millennials) and the VEGA Euro Rendement flagship surpassing its €1Ʉ billion AuM target thanks to the Caisse d’Epargne and Banque Populaire networks. Corporate & Investment Banking’s 2018 highlights included the roll- out of the New Dimension strategic plan (2018-2020) targets aimed at achieving the following goals: to be recognized as a bank that offers innovative solutions and to become a benchmark bank in four key sectors (energy and natural resources, aerospace, infrastructure, real estate and hospitality). › the acquisition of Masséna Partners (signed at this stage); › the first acquisition of a 40% stake in Véga-IM’s capital.

In the second half of the year, Natixis Investment Managers pursued its development through the following events, projects and initiatives: › Ostrum’s subsidiaries (H20, Dorval, Mirova and Seeyond) were repositioned as subsidiaries of Natixis IM; › launch of Europa, a project to create a single entity in France that covers all the distribution support functions in order to improve client services and minimize costs. In early OctoberɄ 2018 the Natixis IM Distribution and Ostrum teams and resources were merged into a new Paris-based entity; › in early September, Natixis Investment Managers announced the creation of Dynamic Solutions as well as the appointment of James Hughes to head up the venture. The team brings together Natixis Investment Managers’ diverse expertise to develop customized investment solutions and offers a single point of access to a wide range of solutions within the multi-affiliate structure; › the Natixis Investment Managers Summit was held on NovemberɄ 6 and 7, 2018 at the Centre Pompidou and Palais Brongniart in Paris. Over the two days, we showcased our Active Thinking platform with the aim of making the summit a can’t-miss event, thus positioning Natixis as a market leader and demonstrating its values and expertise. Topics covered ranged from renewable energies, the financial crisis, migration, cybersecurity and social media. Some 70 speakers from 19 countries and six continents were invited to give their perspective on controversial issues and global events. Over 600Ʉpeople attended the event, including 40 journalists, representatives from all Natixis Investment Managers subsidiaries as well as Natixis’ sales and senior management teams; › in mid-December 2018, Natixis Investment Managers announced the launch of Flexstone Partners, a world-class Private Equity specialist that brings together three subsidiaries of Natixis Investment Managers (Euro-PE, Caspian Private Equity and Eagle Asia) in a single entity to offer investors dynamic and truly global Private Equity solutions. This gives investors access to international expertise on the Private Equity market. Flexstone Partners has a total of $6.7Ʉ billion in assets under management and advisory, and draws on an international team of more than 40 Private Equity specialists in its offices in Pairs, New York, Singapore and Geneva. Flexstone Partners is specialized in selecting and providing access to the best fund managers in Private Equity, private debt, real estate and infrastructure, whether in North America, Europe or Asia. It has also signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and strives to tap into sustainable growth opportunities for its clients. Flexstone Partners is dedicated to institutional investors (pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, financial institutions and family offices) across the globe; › McDonnell Investment Management, LLC and Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P announced that they will be merging. Both companies are subsidiaries of Natixis Investment Managers. Based just outside Chicago, McDonnell specializes in municipal bond and taxable bond strategies and has $11.7Ʉ billion in assets under management. This merger will offer McDonnell’s clients an enhanced range of products and services, thanks to the extensive investment, research and operating capacities of Loomis Sayles; › in the fourth quarter of 2018, Natixis Investment Managers sold its Axeltis fund distribution platform to MFEX. The sale is in line with Natixis Investment Managers’ dynamic management of its business portfolio and allows it to concentrate on developing its Asset Management business lines. In addition, Asset Management pursued the development of its multi- boutique model.

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