Helping organizations invest for financial security
As an asset manager, we support a wide range of Canadian businesses and organizations in investing their capital in ways that create financial strength for their pension-holders, shareholders and plan members.
Through Addenda, we offer investors sustainable investing strategies that aim to foster positive social and environmental changes and accelerate toward a cleaner future.
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We invest today for a sustainable future
The transition to a sustainable economy will take significant effort and substantial investment. The good news: there's no shortage of available capital to do so, and Co-operators is committed to leveraging our invested assets to support the necessary transition to a sustainable future.
Our investing approach seeks to proactively support activity and organizations that will ultimately make our communities more resilient, sustainable places to live.
As a co-operative, our investment strategy focuses on investments that generate strong financial returns alongside positive environmental, social and economic benefits. We’ve committed that 60% of our assets will be invested in impact or climate transition investments by 2030.
invested in impact and climate transition investments
Total impact and climate transition investments
Impact investments by theme
Net-zero investment performance
Our invested assets are a significant lever we can use to catalyze climate action for a net zero future. By 2025, our goal is to reduce the financed emissions intensity of our investments by 25% from 2020 levels (for public equities and publicly-traded bond portfolios). By no later than 2050, our goal is for our entire investment portfolio to be net zero.
Financed emissions intensity of Co-operators public equity and publicly-traded bond portfolios*
*Results for 2020 to 2022 have been restated.
We need to be stewards of the climate transition
Through Addenda Capital, our investment stewardship involves a spectrum of practices that catalyze progress on the climate transition and other environmental, social and governance issues, such as biodiversity, human rights, and diversity, equity and inclusion.
“We want companies to develop successful climate transition plans, disclose emission reductions and demonstrate performance zimprovements, so they are resilient and contributing to a sustainable economy.”
We advocate for sustainable finance
We're focused on advocating for policies, practices and frameworks that will accelerate sustainable finance.