Impact Cubed ESG data is created by investors, for investments. The firm's award winning ESG data and solutions is today trusted by asset owners and institutional asset managers with over $3 trillion in AUM.
After merging with Auriel Capital – a hedge fund launched in 2004 which was the first absolute return investment manager signing up for the UN Principles of Responsible Investments (PRI) in 2009 – Impact Cubed has launched its Impact Alpha strategy with the mission to profitably accelerate the shift of capital towards a more sustainable economy.
Because markets are shortsightedly focused on the next eight quarters’ earnings, they considerably underestimate the long-term impact of megatrends, particularly those related to the ESG considerations. And while for most investors, ESG is a compliance exercise which is solved with simple screening on overt solutions (e.g., screen out coal and go long renewables), Impact Cubed believes that a creative ESG thematic research agenda combined with disciplined portfolio risk management can deliver a repeatable and attractive return and “future-proof” portfolios.
Larry Abele, Partner & CIO, Impact Cubed has been researching ESG since 2008 and recognized early the fundamental necessity to generate robust ESG data and analytics. Today, Impact Cubed is using its unique 15-dimensional model of sustainability that enables them to run ESG as an attractive alpha strategy.
Hear from Larry Abele and Antti Savilaakso, Head of Research:
- Why proper ESG investing is data science
- How Impact Cubed exploits longer term shifts on the long and short side
- Why Impact Cubed's fund has a negative carbon footprint
- Portfolio Construction & Risk Management
- Why sustainable development offers much more investment opportunities than just climate
- Three thematic trade examples
Larry Abele founded Auriel Capital Management LLP in 2004 and serves since 2007 as CIO for Impact Cubed (formerly Auriel Equities). In 2007, Larry was also named one of the twenty “rising stars” in hedge funds by Institutional Investor Magazine. Prior to founding Auriel Capital in 2004, he was a Managing Director at Deutsche Asset Management where he pioneered a global macro investment program as head of Quantitative Strategies and the Portfolio Engineering Group. In April 2003, Larry also became responsible for quantitative US and European stock selection strategies. Prior to joining DeAM in 2000, he worked as a senior researcher for the Global Tactical Asset Allocation program at Barclays Global Investors. Larry started his career at Rob Arnott's First Quadrant working as a systematic global macro researcher and portfolio manager for currency overlay accounts after completing a MPhil at Cambridge University in 1996.
Antti Savilaakso is Head of Research at Impact Cubed. He has been doing environmental, social and governance research with responsible investment context for more than 10 years. Prior to Impact Cubed, Antti was a head of ESG research, EMEA for MSCI ESG Research. Before MSCI, he worked with ESG analysis, corporate engagement and portfolio management at Nordea Asset Management in Stockholm, Responsible Research (now Sustainalytics) in Singapore, Dexia (now Candriam) Asset Management in Brussels and ABN AMRO Asset Management in Amsterdam. He has been involved with various sustainable investment (PRI Co-chair of Reporting & Assessment committee, FINSIF chairman of the board) and Corporate Responsibility Initiatives (GRI Stakeholder Council). Antti has studied information technology, international business and finance with University of Oulu, and Helsinki School of Economics. He resides and works primarily in London.
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Impact Cubed ESG data is created by investors, for investments. The firm's award winning ESG data and solutions is today trusted by asset owners and institutional asset managers with over $3 trillion in AUM.
After merging with Auriel Capital – a hedge fund launched in 2004 which was the first absolute return investment manager signing up for the UN Principles of Responsible Investments (PRI) in 2009 – Impact Cubed has launched its Impact Alpha strategy with the mission to profitably accelerate the shift of capital towards a more sustainab ...more
