Clear Skies Investment Management Inc. is an asset management firm that is committed to impact investments. The firm is dedicated to providing lasting positive impact for the environment and the society, while generating attractive returns for our clients.
Membership Type: Supporting
ESG Partners Inc.
ESG Partners provides expert guidance to companies, investors and government on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors that drive long-term, sustainable value. The unique needs of our clients are supported through the integration of ESG factors into business strategy, risk management, governance, and high-quality disclosures leveraging global standards and demand-driven data solutions.
vincent.dostie@mountmurrayinvestment.com
Mount Murray Investment is an active investment management firm focusing on emerging markets and ethical strategies in global public equities.
Senior members of our team have decades of experience investing in global public markets through various economic cycles and remain committed to an integrated investment research approach with their younger colleagues. We work as a team in everything we do and we strongly believe in the participation of every individual to our firm’s project as well as to its rewards.
Our firm is independent and wholly-owned by its employees to ensure both commitment and objectivity when making investment decisions.
Clear Skies Investment Management
Clear Skies Investment Management Inc. invests in companies with purpose-driven business models that support the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We are an impact investment firm committed to creating value for our investors and stakeholders. Our teams screen and assess investments using an impact radar created in-house to reflect our clients’ values, as well as to ensure that capital reaches the companies at the forefront of creating a sustainable economic system that enables positive impact on the environment and society.
Millani
For the past 13 years, Millani has become the partner of choice for institutional investors, both asset owners and managers. By providing advisory services on integrating material ESG issues into their investment strategies and decision-making processes, we help our clients reduce risks, increase returns, and create value. Today, Millani is also leveraging this expertise and its experience in sustainability consulting to help reporting issuers improve their ESG disclosure to investors and optimize their market value.
Millani’s success is founded on a bespoke, client-centric approach that focuses on material issues, practical implementation, and independent advice. Our extensive capital market experience and unparalleled expertise in ESG, and its connection to value creation, position Millani at the nexus between investors and companies – making us unique in the Canadian market.
ESG Global Advisors
ESG Global Advisors bridges the gap between companies and investors on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. A multi-disciplinary team with significant investor and corporate experience, we are uniquely positioned to offer expert advice to companies and investors on material ESG factors that drive long-term value, including climate change.
We assist companies with integrating material ESG factors into business strategy, risk management, disclosure, engagement and governance. We assist investors and other capital market participants in integrating material ESG factors into investment processes, engagement and proxy voting.
North Growth Management Ltd.
North Growth Management is a Vancouver-based boutique investment firm specializing in equities and active, bottom-up stock selection according to our long-established Growth at a Reasonable Price philosophy.
Pacifica Partners
About Us
Pacifica Partners was launched in 2008 with the cornerstone philosophy to, ”manage client assets the way we would manage money for our own families.” To implement our philosophy, we operate as a team of experienced investment professionals collectively working as fiduciaries for our clients.
Pacifica Partners is a boutique investment manager providing discretionary investment management in both Canada and the US. We specialize in building customized investment portfolios that meet the unique needs of our diverse clientele. Our clients include business owners, professionals, multi-generational families, as well as US and Canadian expats resident on both sides of the Canada-US border.
Our managed investment portfolios comprise mainly investment grade bonds, Canadian, US and global large cap stocks.
Investment Philosophy
Our investment philosophy revolves around the common-sense approach of buying a collection of high-quality assets that an investor would likely benefit from holding for the long run. The trick however, is to buy these assets at attractive prices. Focusing on price allows us to:
1) Reduce the risk of loss in an investment
2) Improves the potential for capital gains
What we will not do is manage portfolios by:
– Closet indexing
– Overly concentrating or diluting the holdings of portfolio
– Forcing portfolios into pre-packaged models.
Investment Strengths
Tailoring each client’s portfolio by patiently building it, security by security, is our strength. Our process and systems have been developed so that we can address the unique portfolios needs originating from specific:
– Taxation concerns
– Existing holdings and position restrictions
– Portfolio preferences
– Assets domiciled in multiple tax and legal jurisdictions
– Complex portfolios comprised of combinations of trusts, corporate, tax advantaged and personal accounts.
Responsible Investing
We manage customized Responsible Investment portfolios that adhere to our philosophy and process while also scrutinizing the environmental, social, and governance policies of the companies we invest in. In addition, we adopted the Proxy Voting Guidelines of SHARE to provide the framework in helping our clients be more socially responsible. We use a combination of ESG factor scoring, negative screening and proxy voting to select and manage investments.
NATOA
NATOA is a charity organization, and is committed to providing Indigenous Peoples of Canada with the resources and information that will help them efficiently create, manage, and operate trusts as a means to ensure the seven generations yet unborn, can benefit from the goals and dreams of the present generation. NATOA’s goal is to be a highly professional and relevant resource for Indigenous Peoples in becoming self-sustaining and vital economic communities.
Æquo
Æquo conducts shareholder engagement on behalf of institutional investors seeking to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into their investment processes. Our vision is for a more sustainable and equitable economic system in which companies, encouraged by their investors, create long-term value for the benefit of society as a whole.
We identify the companies in our engagement plan based on their practices and performance with regard to the ESG issues that are material to them. We conduct constructive dialogues with these companies through one-on-one meetings or collaborative campaigns, to better understand how companies are addressing the challenges they face and to suggest appropriate actions to improve their performance. Æquo’s pooled engagement model allows our clients to have a larger reach and impact as active investors while meeting the stewardship expectations of their stakeholders.
Æquo represents international institutional investors including pension funds, asset managers, and faith-based communities. Many of our clients are signatories to the Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI). Together, Æquo’s clients represent more than CA$110 billion AUM.
Services Include:
– Shareholder engagement
– Proxy voting
– Consulting and training