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Common Interests Sustainability Profile

Sustainability Summary

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Common Interests is a financial advisor focused on responsible investing and ESG analysis. Its investment process overlays a values system on financial fundamentals, with screening that avoids companies that are harming the planet, mistreating people, or “cooking the books.” The firm says it views long-term investing as casting a vote and incorporates Environmental, Social and Governance data into portfolio construction to manage risk, including climate risk. It is a signatory of the PRI and has publicly supported climate action, climate-related financial reporting, and the Paris Agreement. The firm has also been recognised as a Best for the World B Corp for its social and environmental performance.

About Common Interests

  • Status
  • Unverified
  • Employees
  • 5 - 25
  • Country
  • United States

Common Interests Sustainability Actions

Uses ESG screening in portfolios

At Common Interests, we start our investment process in the same place as the rest of the industry: with the fundamentals of the companies we invest in. The difference comes when we overlay our values system on the investments we choose. This extra layer of risk management is the core of our practice. We view long term investing as casting a vote, and for the core of our portfolios, we refuse to cast that vote for companies that are messing up our planet, treating their people in ways we wouldn’t want to be treated, or “cooking the books”. The generic way we describe our screening process is ESG, Environmental, Societal, and Governance.

Incorporated climate risk research

The Principles For Responsible Investing (PRI) has been doing a lot of research on this. We have incorporated this viewpoint into our portfolios, and the way we’ve done it speaks directly to McMahon’s article from yesterday. By mindfully choosing investments that incorporate Environmental, Social and Governance data in their investment process, we believe we can manage these risks.

Signed the PRI

We’re proud to be a signatory of the PRI, and to help our clients align their investments with the issues they want to work on.

Named Best for the World B Corp

Common Interests has been named a Best for the World™ B Corp for the 5th time in a row in recognition of our exemplary performance beyond commercial metrics. Ranking in the top 5% of all B Corps in our size group worldwide for sustainable business practices, we have earned this honor because of initiatives such as our sliding fee scale, which bases our hourly fees on our clients’ ability to pay, our lack of an investment minimum, and our commitment to democratizing access to impact investing & financial planning.

Joined climate investor statement

Common Interests is proud to be a part of the global investor network, including Amundi, California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), Legal & General Investment Management, Natixis Investment Managers, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, and Sumitomo Trust Mitsui Asset Management, making up a record number of signatories to the Global Investor Statement to Governments on Climate Change. Today, we are joining with investors from around the globe to urge world government leaders to step up their ambition on climate change and enact strong policies by 2020 to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, including phasing out thermal coal power and pricing carbon.

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Common Interests Sustainability Commitments

2020

Support Paris Agreement goals

World government leaders are urged to step up their ambition on climate change and enact strong policies by 2020 to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, including phasing out thermal coal power and pricing carbon.

2020

Implement TCFD recommendations

Investors are asking world government leaders to publicly support the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations and commit to implement the TCFD recommendations in their jurisdictions, no later than 2020.

2030

Outcompete new coal plants

Renewables are expected to outcompete new coal-fired power plants by 2030 almost everywhere.


What do our labels mean?

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Certified B Corporation

About Common Interests

  • Status
  • Unverified
  • Employees
  • 5 - 25
  • Country
  • United States

Sustainable Development Goals

Common Interests is committed to advancing these Global Goals to promote prosperity for people & planet.

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