The world is changing quickly as it rises to the environmental and social challenges facing us and we are committed to building a sustainable business that serves our employees and clients. Finance plays an important role in tackling these challenges and we are focused on remaining at the forefront of our industry to shape the future of sustainable investing in the quantitative asset management sector.
Affiliations
CFM became a signatory of the PRI in October 2018. We maintain a close relationship with the PRI
and served on the PRI Hedge Fund Working Group. We were also contributors to the PRI technical
guide on ESG incorporation and have had a seat on the UNPRI Hedge Fund Advisory Committee since
November 2020.
We are an active member of AIMA and take part in various industry-focused discussion and working
groups such as the Global Responsible Investment Committee. We also contribute to working papers
and research briefs, such as the Short Selling and Responsible Investment report.
We have been a Signatory Member of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) since 2019. As a
signatory, we add our name to a long and growing list of investors and managers that support
greater disclosure of environmentally related information and metrics.
We joined Climate Action 100+ in 2020. As an Investor Collaborator we support the work of
engaging with those companies identified as the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gas.
We are a signatory to the Swiss Sustainable Finance open letter to index providers asking them
to “exclude controversial weapons from their mainstream indices in order to align their products
with what has become standard practice or expectation among institutional and individual
investors”.
We have been a member of the FAIRR investors’ network, whose aim is to engage with some of the
largest animal protein sourcing companies, as well as processors and distributors, to steer them
towards more sustainable practices, since January 2021.
CFM participates in the Systematic Responsible Investments Group launched in Q4 2020.
