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Active Management for Alpha and Impact
Dollars are flooding into investments aligned with the SDGs.[1] More and more investors have come to recognize that aligning their capital with companies that benefit people and the planet is not only...
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Why Climate Change Is a Vital Input for Building Portfolios
Climate change and efforts to curb it will have major economic outcomes, not just far into the future but even over the next five years. Yet climate change is completely ignored in most economic...
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To Maximize Your Energy Transition Exposure, Think Thematic
Asset owners have for years known and understood the risks associated with climate change – the threat it poses to companies, countries and people. And they’ve taken action. We’ve seen the signing of...
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Building ESG into the Alternative Protein Terrain
The growth engine of 21st century food The alternative proteins sector currently represents around 1% of the protein market – but is predicted to eat up 60% of the total meat market share by 2040. This...
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Solving for Sustainability – One Opportunity at a Time
For the last decade, environmental social and governance (ESG) investing has grown swiftly. Overall, it was an impressive year for sustainable funds: in 2020, 3 out of 4 beat their Morningstar Category...
View ArticleWhat’s on at the 2021 RIA Virtual Conference
The steady progression of responsible investment (RI) in Canada over the last decade has given way to a flood of new developments in just the last year. Fund companies have launched many new ESG-themed...
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Need and Opportunity: What COVID-19 Revealed About Social Infrastructure
The global pandemic highlighted that many communities around the world lack the necessary facilities—things like accessible health care facilities and affordable housing—to combat threats like COVID-19...
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How to Apply an ESG Lens to Manager Selection & Oversight
Applying an environmental, social and governance (ESG) lens to an investment can turn up many things. It could, for example, reveal that a company’s approach to environmental sustainability is...
View ArticleEnabling Social Investment Opportunities Outside of Affordable Housing
There are seemingly not enough social impact investment opportunities to quench investor appetite in Canada. If we remove the opportunities to invest in green energy, and instead analyze opportunities...
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Lithium: A Circular Economy Perspective for ESG Investment and Stewardship
The race to achieve net-zero emissions presents a challenge and opportunity for the circular economy, which applies regenerative design thinking to economics and aims for sustainability. To reach...
View ArticleSocial bonds: What Should Canadian Investors Look Out For?
When it issued a 10-year social bond in June 2020, raising $100 million as part of its new Social Debenture Program, the City of Toronto broke new ground. The Program, first of its kind in Canadian...
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Could Job Flexibility Be a Turning Point for Working Women?
After Years of Gains, Women Bore Brunt of Pandemic-Related Layoffs In the fourth quarter of 2019, the female share of total employment hit 50% for only the second time in history (the first being in...
View ArticleDid We Consent to This? Holding Tech Players Accountable for Mitigating Human...
If you were looking for a single statement to sum up the state of technology in the late stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, you’d be hard pressed to do better than this quote from the information hub ESG...
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How Investors Can Drive Change in Canadian Nursing Homes
Before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare issues at nursing homes were often overlooked. The past year starkly demonstrated that inadequate working conditions and inadequate elderly care...
View ArticleNet Zero Scenarios: An Investor’s Perspective
While climate change is a complex issue often discussed as a source of risks, it also creates a new realm of opportunities for investors. However, if investors are to be successful over the long term,...
View ArticleThree Key ESG Trends Advisors Need to be Aware Of
As responsible investment (RI) continues to grow and evolve at a rapid pace, it is important for investment advisors to stay abreast of key trends and leading practices in the field. Of course, that is...
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Environmental Measures in Executive Compensation in Canada’s Extractive...
Many of Canada’s largest extractive companies have set ambitious environmental goals with long-term horizons (e.g., 2040 or 2050 net zero goals). One tangible way for companies to incentivize progress...
View ArticleA Focus on the ‘S’ in ‘ESG’: Standard Setting to Avoid Impact Washing in...
There have been encouraging changes in the impact investing market as it matures, with asset owners and fund managers now paying more attention to the ‘Social’ or ‘S’ in ESG, expanding from the initial...
View ArticleIs Say-on-Climate Here to Stay? It’s up to Investors
The pressure is on companies, and boards specifically, to enhance transparency on their strategies to mitigate climate risks and sustain their businesses in a net zero future. 2021 will be seen as a...
View ArticleWhat Investors Need Most from COP26: Useful Data to Inform Decision-Making
Currently, delegates from hundreds of countries, leaders of business and finance, and policymakers from across the world are in Glasgow for the COP26 climate conference. There they aim to accelerate...
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