{"id":18970,"date":"2020-07-14T15:15:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T19:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/bci-publishes-esg-strategy-148003"},"modified":"2020-07-14T15:15:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T19:15:45","slug":"bci-publishes-esg-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/07\/14\/bci-publishes-esg-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"BCI publishes ESG strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Legal-update-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"BCI publishes ESG strategy\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff <\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;July 14, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>The British Columbia Investment Management Corp. has released its environmental, social and governance strategy, which outlines its beliefs, principles, governance and how its investment strategies consider ESG factors.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy includes four components: integrate, influence, invest and insight. In particular, the BCI is focused on integrating ESG analysis and risk management into investment processes, influencing others through engagement and advocacy, seeking opportunities to invest in ESG-themed investments and using learnings to generate insights to adapt strategies and approaches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/bci-touts-esg-successes-in-2019-report-146785\"><strong>BCI touts ESG successes in 2019 report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur updated<em>&nbsp;<\/em>ESG strategy<em>&nbsp;<\/em>marks the culmination of a collaborative effort across the corporation and builds upon BCI\u2019s long-standing commitment to ESG,\u201d said Jennifer Coulson, the BCI\u2019s vice-president of ESG for public markets, in a press release. \u201cIt strengthens our approach to mitigating the long-term risks and opportunities that ESG matters present as part of the prudent investment management of our clients\u2019 funds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/bci-publishes-esg-strategy-148003\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff &nbsp;|&nbsp;July 14, 2020 The British Columbia Investment Management Corp. has released its environmental, social and governance strategy, which outlines its beliefs, principles, governance and how its investment strategies consider ESG factors. The strategy&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}