Northern Trust's Corporate Social Responsibility Reports

At Northern Trust, our approach to sustainability is grounded in our enduring principles of service, expertise and integrity.

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Community Impact at Northern Trust
Community involvement is deeply rooted in the Northern Trust culture, affecting the way we do business globally. Since our founding in 1889, Northern Trust has actively advanced a culture of caring and a commitment to invest responsibly in the communities we serve worldwide. This philosophy continues today through progressive community investments; contributions to service and community organizations; partner volunteerism; gifts in-kind such as donations of meeting space, catering, supplies and other knowledge services; and directorship guidance to charitable and civic boards.

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Responsible Investing Practice at Northern Trust
Our Corporate Social Responsibility strategy is integrated into our core business strategy. This means we collaborate with our clients and acknowledge our responsibility in supporting sustainable business relationships. We proudly advocate corporate citizenship, philanthropy and support for the diverse communities and environments in which we operate.

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Stakeholder Engagement at Northern Trust
Throughout the year we actively engage in dialogue with our stakeholders – clients, partners, shareholders, communities, regulators, suppliers and peers. These stakeholder groups are determined based on our business strategy of serving corporations, institutions and affluent individuals worldwide. Each stakeholder group affects our reputation, policies and best practices.

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Environmental Sustainability at Northern Trust
“In the financial service sector, environmental sustainability take many forms. From best-in-class facilities management to innovative employee engagement activities we take this work seriously. In 2014, we are proud to report a more than 10% decrease in our overall emissions per full-time employee, based on base year 2011. The efforts of professionals around the globe working to eliminate and mitigate negative environmental impacts from our operations made this decrease possible.”

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Culture at Northern Trust
“Our diverse workforce is an important part of what enables our firm to be a best in class provider of products and services around the globe. Our senior leaders are engaged, which creates an environment of awareness, action and accountability. Our support of communities where our employees live and work is an important part of this strategy which we advance through our commitment to invest responsibly in communities.”

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Integrity at Northern Trust
“Northern Trust has a heritage of acting with the highest ethics. The utmost honesty. And unfailing reliability. We have the wisdom earned through generations of relationships. The stability to weather change and uncertainty. And the insight to understand that diversity makes us stronger. For 125 years, our integrity has remained intact. And we have no intention of that changing."

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Expertise at Northern Trust
“In everything we do, expertise has always been at Northern Trust’s core. We know what we do well, and focus sharply on those things. We expand our knowledge and capabilities with an eye on the future. We hire and support talented professionals to help deliver creative solutions. Our expertise is why we’ve been a trusted advisor for five generations, and will continue to be for generations to come.”

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Service at Northern Trust
“Northern Trust has a relentless drive to provide exceptional service. We set new standards. Skillfully execute. Deliver more. It’s what we’re known for. Regardless of what we’re providing — technology, solutions or our time — we are passionately and personally committed to delivering above and beyond.”

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Letter from the 2014 Corporate Social Responsibility Report
Before corporate social responsibility (CSR) was a generally accepted term, our guiding principles of service, expertise and integrity laid the groundwork for our organizational culture. Celebrating our 125th anniversary provides an opportunity to reflect on how these principles have deepened Northern Trust’s longstanding CSR commitment.

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