Type: Aligned Investments
Topic: Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy
Status: Current
Ownership’s name captures its approach well. The Netherlands-based manager strives to improve the companies it owns. Dialogue can include energy use, product efficacy and stakeholder engagement. It creates positive social and environmental outcomes while increasing shareholder value.
Investment
$25 million; originated in 2017.
Rationale
Ownership’s global strategy uses a ten-year horizon in seeking fundamentally strong companies. Social, environmental and governance risks and opportunities are fully factored into stock valuation and selection.
Benchmark
MSCI World
Returns
Lessons Learned
Ownership’s strategy underscores the challenge that institutional fiduciaries like McKnight face: we must review performance monthly and quarterly, while embracing a truly long-term point of view. McKnight’s sustainability portfolio provokes important conversations about the right time frame for environmentally integrated strategies to bear fruit.
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Last updated 3/2020