Hallwood Sustainability is a boutique independent consultancy that partners with Canadian and global organizations across sectors and stages of maturity to bring clarity, confidence, and momentum to their sustainability journeys. Whether you’re advancing disclosure, activating a new strategy, or building internal capacity, we’ll meet you where you are— and help you lead with purpose, and deliver with impact.
Marketplace Access: Investment Consultant
Peter Fox
KBI Global Investors is a specialist equity boutique, managing assets on behalf of institutional investors in Canada, USA, UK, Europe and Asia.
Our suite of Global Equity Strategies demonstrate high levels of Quality, better Valuation and strong Governance and ESG credentials. Our objective is to improve the consistency of return for our clients and reduce their exposure to risk. Our investment team manages:
*Global Developed Equity Strategy
*Global Emerging Market Equity Strategy
*Global ACWI Equity Strategy
Our suite of natural resource strategies are underpinned by long-term trends around the world’s changing demographic profile, the scarcity of l natural resources, and the sustained pressure for lower carbon economies. Our investment team manages:
*Global Water Strategy
*Global Clean Energy Strategy
*Global Agribusiness Strategy
*Global Resource Solutions (listed natural resources) Strategy
*Global Sustainable Infrastructure (listed infrastructure) Strategy
With responsible investing integrated across our entire suite of strategies, the firm is also a signatory to the PRI since 2007, as well as participating in several other responsible investment industry organisations and initiatives. Internally we have robust ESG controls, policies and processes in place that govern our activities.
Janne Duncan
Janne Duncan is a senior partner at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, part of the global firm Norton Rose Fulbright with 4000 lawyers across Canada, the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
Janne has more than 25 years of experience as a business lawyer advising public and private enterprises and their boards on often sensitive mandates. In addition to her more traditional securities law practice involving transactions, corporate finance, IPOs and commercial agreements, she helps clients design new business models that navigate complex legal and regulatory environments, and proactively mitigate risk by implementing governance strategies and best practices in the areas of take-over bid defenses, executive compensation, corporate social responsibility, business ethics and anti-corruption, human rights, supply chain management, stakeholder engagement and public disclosure. Supported by the firm’s global platform, she has worked extensively for financial institutions and for mining and agri- business companies operating in Canada and globally.
Janne is on the firm’s pro bono committee and serves as legal advisor to many leading not-for- profit Canadian arts and human rights organizations including PEN Canada (where she served on the board member for 6 years), Institute for Canadian Citizenship, Necessary Angel Theatre Company (board member) and Art Canada Institute. Janne is very involved in women’s initiatives in the mining space, including the 30% Club Canada where she chairs the steering committee responsible for the extractive sector, and Women in Mining Toronto Branch. She speaks and teaches widely in the areas of mining, governance, executive compensation, corporate social responsibility and disclosure best practices, and co-leads the Women in Line for Leadership board-readiness program for women in the extractive sector co-sponsored by Norton Rose Fulbright Canada and KPMG.
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.
CUMIS
The CUMIS Group Limited (CUMIS), which is part of The Co-operators group of companies, partners with credit unions to deliver competitive insurance and financial solutions. As the leading provider of insurance-related products and services to the Canadian credit union system, CUMIS serves over 300 credit unions, with a total of more than 5.5 million members.
CIBC Mellon
CIBC Mellon is a Canadian company exclusively focused on the investment servicing needs of Canadian institutional investors and international institutional investors into Canada. As at December 31, 2019, CIBC Mellon had more than CAD$2 trillion of assets under administration on behalf of banks, pension funds, investment funds, corporations, governments, insurance companies, foreign insurance trusts, foundations and global financial institutions whose clients invest in Canada. www.cibcmellon.com
CIBC Mellon est une société canadienne qui se concentre exclusivement à répondre aux besoins de services de placement des investisseurs institutionnels canadiens et des investisseurs institutionnels étrangers qui investissent au Canada. Au 31 decembre 2019, CIBC Mellon détenait plus de 2 billions $ CA d’actifs sous administration au nom de banques, de caisses de retraite, de fonds de placement, de sociétés, de gouvernements, de compagnies d’assurance, de fiducies d’assurance étrangères, de fondations et d’institutions financières mondiales dont les clients investissent au Canada. www.cibcmellon.com