{"id":19874,"date":"2020-10-16T15:25:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T19:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/manulife-investment-management-receives-top-esg-marks-151225"},"modified":"2020-10-16T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T19:25:10","slug":"top-esg-marks-for-manulife-investment-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/10\/16\/top-esg-marks-for-manulife-investment-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Top ESG marks for Manulife Investment Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ESG.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Top ESG marks for Manulife Investment Management\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 16, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>Manulife Investment Management Holdings (Canada) Inc. has been named to the Principles for Responsible Investment\u2019s PRI leaders\u2019 group 2020 in recognition of its \u2018cutting edge\u2019 practices in climate reporting, one of 36 signatories honoured this year.<\/p>\n<p>In its assessment, the PRI awarded Manulife Investment Management an A+ in the areas of strategy and governance, equity integration\u202fand&nbsp;sovereign, supranational and agency debt fixed-income integration. It&nbsp;was also given an A in real\u202festate, equity active ownership and fixed income (corporate financial, corporate non-financial and securitized) and a B in infrastructure and private equity, two asset classes that were submitted for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/benefits-of-integrating-esg-include-long-term-alpha-minimized-risk-survey-151156\">Benefits of integrating ESG include long-term alpha, minimized risk: survey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manulife Investment Management included the PRI\u2019s grading in its second annual sustainable and responsible investing report. Highlights from private markets in 2019 included the formalization of a robust governance structure for its sustainable investing program and active participation in industry associations, while in public markets,&nbsp;the investment manager advanced&nbsp;the integration of environmental, social and governance factors and active engagement across its equity and fixed-income capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;report also includes the inaugural&nbsp;update by the company\u2019s task force for climate-related financial disclosure, which details the firm\u2019s approach to climate-related sustainability governance and risk management.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/institutional-investors-increasingly-interested-in-esg-factors-survey-150868\">Institutional investors increasingly interested in ESG factors: survey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/manulife-investment-management-receives-top-esg-marks-151225\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 16, 2020 Manulife Investment Management Holdings (Canada) Inc. has been named to the Principles for Responsible Investment\u2019s PRI leaders\u2019 group 2020 in recognition of its \u2018cutting edge\u2019 practices in climate reporting, one of&#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\/19874"}],"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=19874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}