Kendall Investments
Kendall Sustainable Infrastructure, LLC (KSI) is a private equity company focused on producing outstanding returns and positive environmental impacts. KSI is an affiliate of Kendall Investments a firm with a 12 year history.
KSI manages investments into impact producing real assets, such as wind and solar energy projects with strong cash flows from long-term contracts (commonly called PPAs). The firm’s management has deep experience in power and equity markets and takes a long-term approach to this non-correlated and growing asset class.
Traditionally, Private Equity is associated with a “J-Curve” predicated on a favorable exit resulting from expectations of company growth and market enhancement. KSI’s approach is focused on direct ownership into core infrastructure projects that have completed development and are already cash flowing or about to cash flow.
Investments in sustainable infrastructure assets provide direct access to a basic need of society, energy, without the volatility associated with other methods. Furthermore, by utilizing on a non-depleting input such as sunlight, wind or water, these projects eliminate price risk associated with purchased commodities such as fuel.
Website & Other Published Materials
Focus on: John Chaimanis, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Kendall Sustainable Infrastructure l The Journal of Environmental Investing
Impact Investing - Private Real Assets l LinkedIn, By John Chaimanis
ClearBridge Investments
ClearBridge Investments is a global investment manager. ClearBridge has a ESG program for clients who have adopted social investment policy guidelines. Through this program, ClearBridge encourages active company engagement and shareholder advocacy. ClearBridge recently launched the ClearBridge Sustainability Leaders Fund.
Trillium Asset Management
Trillium manages equity, balanced, and fixed income portfolios. As a firm, Trillium is dedicated to sustainable and responsible investing. They believe that ESG factors as apart of their financial analysis allows them to deliver to their clients long-term, risk adjusted performance.
Resources:
- Investing in Equality: Integrating LGBT Issues into Total Portfolio Activation l Croatan Institute, Social Justice Fund Northwest, Out Leadership & Trillium Asset Management, September 29, 2016
Impax Asset Management
Founded in 1998, Impax is a specialist asset manager in both listed and private markets strategies, investing in the opportunities arising from the transition to a more sustainable global economy.
Impax believes that capital markets will be shaped profoundly by global sustainability challenges, including climate change, pollution and essential investments in human capital, infrastructure and resource efficiency. These trends will drive growth for well-positioned companies and create risks for those unable or unwilling to adapt.
The company seeks to invest in higher quality companies with strong business models that demonstrate sound management of risk. Impax offers a well-rounded suite of investment solutions spanning multiple asset classes seeking strong risk-adjusted returns over the medium to long term.
Impax has approximately 300 employees across its offices in the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Denmark, Hong Kong and Japan making it one of the investment management sector’s largest investment teams dedicated to sustainable development.
Resources from Impax Asset Management:
- The business case for diversity and inclusion
- Untangling the intangible asset of workplace culture
- AI’s double-edged role in the sustainability revolution
- Seeking resilience
- Impact Report 2024
- Impax Climate Report 2024
- Stewardship and Advocacy Report 2024
- Investing to address biodiversity loss
- Turning down the dial on cooling-related emissions
- The green arc of steel’s transition
Perella Weinberg Partners
Perella is a independent financial services firm. The agility strategy provides outsourced investment solutions for clients. This platform allows for the Outsourced Investment Team to customize investments to meet the clients' individual needs.
Pax World Investments
At Pax World Investments, they believe that sustainable investing is not only a better, but a smarter way to invest. They define sustainable investing as "the full integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into financial analysis and decision-making". The Pax World investment process includes identifying "top-down global investment themes, analyzing companies through bottom-up fundamental analysis, and integrating comprehensive sustainability and financial analysis".
Parnassus Investments
Parnassus Investment manages six funds to meet various investment needs. Responsible Investing is at the heart of their investment approach. Each member of the investment team considers ESG factors, while two members of the team are dedicated solely covering ESG factors.
Imprint Capital
Imprint Capital is an impact investment firm. They create customized portfolios for their clients including foundations, families, and financial institutions. Part of this customization process is looking at the mission of each client and aligning their portfolio with that specific mission objective. They invest globally and focus on many issues areas including Energy & the Environment.
Green Century Funds
Green Century Funds was founded by non-profit environmental advocacy groups as way of providing an investment option for people who care about the environment. They offer was they call the "triple-green" approach in order for those who invest to receive competitive returns while also remaining confident that they are investing in sustainable companies. Green Century offers two completely fossil fuel free mutual funds - the Green Century Equity Fund and Green Century Balanced Fund.
Green Alpha
Green Alpha is an asset management firm founded on principles of environmental stewardship. They believe firmly that the global economy must operate in an environmentally sustainable world. As a part of this approach, Green Alpha offers fossil fuel free portfolios. They believe in science driven, research based investments in the Next Economy.