iAtoday

Once considered a specialized niche with a limited amount of assets under management, responsible investment now represents a very significant share of the Canadian professionally managed asset market. In fact, data gathered by the Canadian Institutional Investment Network show that this market share has increased from 47% in 2021, to 49% in 2022.

When it comes to responsible investment, fund managers employ a variety of strategies, the most widely used of which is the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their decision-making processes. It therefore goes without saying that iA Financial Group is interested in how the fund managers who make up its investment platform carry out this ESG integration and adopt the best practices recommended by bodies such as the United Nations PRI, Climate Action 100+ and Net Zero Asset Managers.

Over the last few months, iA Financial Group's monitoring team has established its own criteria grid to evaluate the ESG integration – and their progress in this respect – of each of the fund managers on its investment platform. This assessment will be published in a forthcoming edition of iAtoday.

Stay tuned!