ESG News For Trillium Asset Management

Three Pioneers of Gender Lens Investing Recognized for Decades of Work and Collaboration

During the 2023 Employee Giving Campaign, employees at Standard Insurance Company (The Standard) donated $1.8 million benefiting 2,562 schools and nonprofit organizations across the nation. After a double match by The Standard and parent organization Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company, total donations from the campaign exceed $5.5 million.Contributions from the 1,868 employees who participated along with the matching funds were distributed to nonprofit organizations and schools during 2023.“I’m

During the 2022 Employee Giving Campaign, employees at Standard Insurance Company (The Standard) pledged $1.8 million benefiting more than 2,168 schools and nonprofit organizations across the nation. After a two-for-one match by The Standard and parent organization Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company, total contributions from the campaign will exceed $5.5 million.More than 1,600 employees pledged support during the campaign. These contributions, which are in addition to The Standard’s corporate

Climate change cited as leading ESG criteria for both money managers and institutional asset ownersHIGHLIGHTSBoth money managers and institutional asset owners cited climate change/carbon emissions as the top issue they addressed in ESG incorporation, with each group saying it applied to more than $3 trillion of the assets under their purview.Additionally, money managers reported applying fossil fuel divestment policies across $1.2 trillion in their assets under management, putting it in fourth place among all the ESG criteria they address. Avoidance of military/weapons related investments and tobacco-related investments ranked second and third for money managers, affecting $1.8 trillion and $1.7 trillion in assets, respectively.For institutional asset owners, the second most important ESG issue factored into investment decision-making was avoidance of companies doing business in countries of high conflict risk, affecting $3.3 trillion in assets. Board issues and sustainable natural resources/agriculture were the third and fourth most important ESG issues for institutional investors in asset-weighted terms, affecting $2.9 trillion and $2.8 trillion, respectively.From 2020 through the first half of 2022, 154 institutional investors and 70 investment managers controlling $3 trillion in AUM led or co-led shareholder resolutions on ESG issues.The leading ESG issue raised in shareholder proposals was on ensuring fair workplace practices, and particularly on ending de facto discrimination based on ethnicity and sex. Close behind in the numbers of proposals filed were concerns about corporate political activity and climate change.Community investing experienced rapid growth, with assets under management increasing 72 percent to $458 billion over the past two years and increasing more than 600 percent in the last decade.

Deliveries in Florida and Minnesota Part of 11 Homes Awarded in 2021

Media call scheduled for 10:30am EST todayHighlightsThe Trends report counts two main strategies as sustainable investing: ESG incorporation—applying various environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in investment analysis and portfolio selection—and filing shareholder resolutions on ESG issues.The total US-domiciled assets under management using sustainable investing strategies grew from $12.0 trillion at the start of 2018 to $17.1 trillion at the start of 2020, an increase of 42 percent.This is 33 percent – or 1 in 3 dollars – of the total US assets under professional management.The top three specific issues for money managers and their institutional investor clients are climate change/carbon emissions, sustainable natural resources/agriculture and board issues.From 2018 through the first half of 2020, 149 institutional investors and 56 investment managers controlling $1.98 trillion in AUM led or co-led shareholder resolutions on ESG issues. 

MARY KAY CANADA DONATES TENS OF THOUSANDS OF HAND SANITIZERS UNITS TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, FIRST RESPONDERS BATTLING COVID-19

In a public letter to all company stakeholders, chief executive officer Kevin Johnson sets 2030 science-based targets for carbon, water and waste as part of multi-decade aspiration

The Standard Charitable Foundation, Standard Insurance Company and its employees contributed more than $5.5 million last year to nonprofits.