{"id":19372,"date":"2020-08-26T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T19:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/mark-carney-to-head-esg-impact-investing-at-brookfield-149270"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:15:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T19:15:32","slug":"mark-carney-to-head-esg-impact-investing-at-brookfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/08\/26\/mark-carney-to-head-esg-impact-investing-at-brookfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Carney to head ESG, impact investing at Brookfield"},"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\/08\/Mark-Carney-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Mark Carney to head ESG, impact investing at Brookfield\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>The Canadian Press<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;August 26, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>Brookfield Asset Management Inc.&nbsp;is appointing&nbsp;Mark Carney as vice-chair and head of environmental, social and governance&nbsp;and impact fund investing.<\/p>\n<p>Carney&nbsp;is currently the United Nations\u2019 special envoy for climate action and finance, and was formerly&nbsp;governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. He&nbsp;has long advocated for action on climate change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/investments\/strategies\/cppib-and-brookfield-compete-over-australian-company-76431\">CPPIB and Brookfield compete to acquire Australian company<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the new role,&nbsp;he\u2019ll work on the development of a group of funds that will combine positive social and environmental outcomes with strong risk-adjusted returns, according to Brookfield. \u201cBuilding on our track record in renewable investing, Mark will help accelerate our efforts to combine better long-term outcomes for society with strong risk-adjusted returns,\u201d said Bruce Flatt,&nbsp;the investment manager\u2019s chief executive officer, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark\u2019s insights and perspectives will add tremendous value to our global investing activities for the benefit of our investors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/mark-carney-to-head-esg-impact-investing-at-brookfield-149270\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Press&nbsp;|&nbsp;August 26, 2020 Brookfield Asset Management Inc.&nbsp;is appointing&nbsp;Mark Carney as vice-chair and head of environmental, social and governance&nbsp;and impact fund investing. Carney&nbsp;is currently the United Nations\u2019 special envoy for climate action and&#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\/19372"}],"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=19372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}