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Responsible Investing and ESG as a Growth Strategy

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Responsible Investing and ESG as a Growth Strategy

“Triple bottom line" or "people, planet, profit" is about being smart and intentional about our strategic decisions and investments. The first hurdle to overcome is the notion that investing with an environmental or social lens will naturally result in lower returns or performance. Data shows it is just the opposite.

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10 Years Later - Have the Fundamentals Changed?

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10 Years Later - Have the Fundamentals Changed?

“We are living in a unique time, facing unimagined challenges: global economic crisis, peak oil, climate change, social and geopolitical shifts. And these are the high-level concerns. At the ground level we are dealing with aging infrastructure, an inadequate energy grid, primary fuel sources in foreign hands, diminishing croplands, a newly regulated playing field and unemployment reaching double digits in some cities. Like a ‘perfect storm’, few could have imagined these events arising in concert. But they have - complexity is increasing, changing the world as we’ve known it.

We Are Fiduciaries...

We Are Fiduciaries...

We must fully decarbonize our economies by 2050. Impacts of climate change are affecting the real estate markets - hurricanes, extraordinary rain events, out of control fires and extreme heat. Increasingly assets are at risk of becoming ‘stranded’ due to direct impacts of the changing climate and devaluations related to the transition to a low carbon economy.