Marketplace Access: Fund Company
The Co-operators
The Co-operators is a leading Canadian, diversified, integrated, multi-line insurance and financial services co-operative with over $41 billion in assets under administration. Our company operates in four core areas: Property and Casualty & insurance, Life insurance, institutional asset management and brokerage operations.
Through our group of companies, we operate in four core areas: Property and Casualty & insurance, Life insurance, institutional asset management and brokerage operations. Addenda Capital, The Co-operators investment management company, promotes a sustainable, low-carbon and climate-resilient society through its investment decisions and stewardship activities. Currently, 93 percent of The Co-operators invested assets are guided by The Co-operators Sustainable Investing Policy. This policy applies across all major asset classes, where eligible, but does not apply to certain assets such as short-term investments, policy loans or derivatives. Our vision to be a catalyst for a sustainable society is reflected in all aspects of our operations including our community investment programs, which support people in need and help build community resiliency. We support and fund the development of community-oriented co-operatives and social enterprises, and we work hard to contribute to communities across Canada.
Desjardins Global Asset Management
At Desjardins, Global Asset Management (DGAM), we are known for our innovative leadership, our ability to create value and our prominent place in the Canadian market. Established in 2003, DGAM is now one of the leading institutional portfolio managers in Canada and a leader in responsible investment. It manages more than $63 billion in assets for life and health, property and casualty insurance companies, pension funds, foundations, trust companies, investment funds, public sector entities, corporations and ETF.
DGAM provides a full range of comprehensive solutions driven by innovation and performance in the following investment sectors: fixed income, Canadian equity, systematic strategies, asset allocation, alternative strategies and responsible investment.
DGAM consists of an investment team of more than 60 professionals, including nearly 40 highly qualified investment specialists, including a team of experts dedicated to responsible investment with close to $2 BN of assets under management in ESG strategies. DGAM is also a signatory to the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment.
Rally Assets
Rally Assets is an impact investment management firm. The firm helps investors generate positive social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Rally creates impact funds and other portfolios to enable foundations, other institutional investors, family offices and individual accredited investors to invest in alignment with their values. Through its joint venture in Realize Capital Partners, Rally is a fund-of-funds manager for the Government of Canada’s Social Finance Fund.
Rally is a Portfolio Manager and Exempt Market Dealer registered in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec with the respective provincial securities commissions.
Rally is a certified B Corporation.
MSCI ESG Research
For more than 40 years, MSCI’s research-based indexes and analytics have helped the world’s leading investors build and manage better portfolios. Clients rely on our offerings for deeper insights into the drivers of performance and risk in their portfolios, broad asset class coverage and innovative research. MSCI serves 99 of the top 100 largest money managers, according to the most recent P&I ranking.
NEI Investments
NEI Investments (from its founding companies Ethical Funds and Northwest Funds) has evolved into Canada’s leading provider of Responsible Investment (RI) solutions in Canada, with the broadest range of RI-focused funds available to Canadian investors.
Our approach to RI is one of pragmatic optimism. Evidence shows that applying a range of approaches – including ESG evaluations, dialogue and engagement, selective screening, ESG-focused proxy voting and sustainability-themed investments – increasingly leads to better investment outcomes in terms risk mitigation and long-term investment performance. While the application of responsible screens is a powerful and effective tool we still employ today, we find we can make a greater difference – in investment returns, corporate policy and ESG outcomes – through engagement, and have grown to prefer working with a company’s board, management and other key stakeholders to help that company deliver positive change.
NEI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aviso Wealth, a fully integrated Canadian wealth management organization with nearly $100B in combined AUA and AUM.
IG Wealth Management
IG Wealth Management is a leading provider of comprehensive, personal financial planning and wealth management through its network of Consultants to over one million individuals, families and business owners in Canada.
TD Bank Group
In addition to banking products, TD Bank and its subsidiaries offer customized private banking and wealth management services. They believe that environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are an important consideration within the investment process, as they provide a more robust view of potential risks and opportunities. TD bank is a signatory to the UNPRI, CDP, CDP Forests Program and CCGG.
Stewart Investors
We are a small team of passionate investors managing, on behalf of our clients, investment portfolios with a focus on high-quality companies that are well positioned to contribute to, and benefit from, sustainable development.
We believe that fund management has a social purpose, encouraging a savings culture around long-term investment. Our philosophy of careful stewardship is in the best interests of clients and should protect capital over the long term.
We invest over the long term across five regions: Asia, Europe, Global Emerging Markets, the Indian Subcontinent and Worldwide.
State Street Global Advisors, Ltd.
Founded over 40 years ago as the asset management arm of State Street Corporation, State Street Global Advisors is grounded in State Street’s 231-year heritage of helping people manage their assets wisely. Today, we’re the world’s fourth largest asset manager with $3.48 trillion* in assets under management for clients, ranging from central banks and sovereign wealth funds, to pensions, foundations, and investment advisors.
We have a history of innovation in developing a broad array of strategies across the risk-reward spectrum, from passive and enhanced index strategies, to active equity alternative investment strategies. Our product ranges are offered through commingled funds (mutual and ETFs) or through segregated accounts.