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Sinclair & Company offers sustainable investment expertise to professionals in investment, and the business of investment. As architects of sustainable & responsible investment, we offer external perspective to internal development, benchmarking against best practice, and new ways of thinking about the challenges. We stimulate your best new developments with our original thinking on how to make sustainabke investment and integration of ESG factors happen.

SinCo offers both individual project-based consulting as well as on-going advisory services. We reduce complexities to clear trade-offs for integrating environmental, social and corporate governance [ESG] factors into investment management, models and messaging. Perhaps most importantly we offer an unbiased, independent viewpoint, helping your firm to benchmark against global best practice in developed countries, emerging markets and frontier markets. Our role is to help investors decide what and how they may build their investment approach for a world with resource constraints and no externalities, where all risks and opportunities are being re-priced.

See also  THINKING BEHIND OUR PROCESS and  INVESTMENT ARCHITECTURE

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SinCo clients are typically looking for new thinking, benchmarking against best practice, and designing new ESG investment architecture. We work on the investment and investment infrastructure sides of the investment - business paradigm, not for companies, except where we deal directly with the investment function within companies or are building bridges with the investor relations role at companies [similar to our work with WBCSD for the "Translating ESG into sustainable value" project 2008/9 [see Collaborations and Media Features post under the Multimedia page]

  • Pension funds
  • Institutional investors
  • Insurance companies
  • Family offices
  • High net worth advisors
  • Investment consultants
  • Hedge funds
  • Investment Banks
  • Ratings agencies
  • International Organizations
  • Foundations & Endowments
  • Stock Exchanges

Assignments and Engagements  Minimize

Sinclair & Company assignments are always unique based upon the needs of our clients. We group them into three areas of investment practice:

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Management
The footprint of the organization and it wins or loses in the sustainability meta-trend.
  
Management assignments include:
  • Sustainability investor selection
  • Benchmarking best practice
  • Sustainability strategy
  • ESG vendor selection
  • Project management
  • Investment policy
  • External review
 
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Manufacturing
How sustainability impacts the technical management of money or money decisions.
  
Manufacturing assignments include:
  • Investment platform development
  • Investment security modeling
  • ESG investment architecture
  • Fundamental ESG analysis
  • Education and training
  • ESG vendor selection
  • Process re-design
 
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Marketing
How you connect your offerings and message to people.
  
Marketing assignments include:
  • Product research and development
  • Messaging to market segments
  • Market and research analysis
  • ESG index development
  • New product designs
  • Client conferences
  • Brand strategy

Investors are increasingly recognizing that environmental, social and governance [ESG] issues are relevant and material, and need to be integrated into investment decision-making and ownership practices. There is also increasing demand from clients, stakeholders and beneficiaries for investors to address these issues in an appropriate and responsible manner.

We are not a traditional investment consultant. In fact, we offer investors an assessment on which investment consultant firms to consider hiring. But we will be a niche player for select, complex projects needing sustainability+investmentSM expertise capable of embedding into investment practice on either the buy or sell-side. We adopt a theme perspective, with regional coverage explicitly also covering emerging and frontier markets. Our offering includes consulting on how to choose amongst the many worthy international and regional initiatives like ICGN, EITI, PRI, CDP, EAI, IIGCC, INCR, and others.

"Graham is an enthusiastic, positive and innovative individual who is focused on progress and change. His energy is infectious." Director of Group Sustainability Management, African-based banking group

"Graham has one of the most fantastic international networks that i've ever encountered. His understanding of, and passion for, responsible investment makes him one of the most knowledgeable in the field. I've always been impressed with his delivery and focus." Head Governance and Sustainability, African-based banking group

"I have met Graham in its role as project director for the PRI. Graham is focused on his objectives and extremely professional. I look forward to work with him again." Geneva-based director of global fund-of-funds hedge fund.

"Graham is one of those people whom you will rarely meet in life. He is someone who you will almost immediately admire for his obvious love for, and knowledge of, his subject area." Presidential Management Fellow at the US Department of State, Global Partnership Center.
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