Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Factors
Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s defines responsible investing as investment approaches that take ESG factors into consideration. Queen's believes that ESG factors can be material to shareholder value across industries and through time.
Responsible Investing Report
Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s inaugural Responsible Investing Annual Report provides an in-depth look at the university's progress against our responsible investing commitments, clarifies our principles, beliefs, and approach in partnering with our external investment managers, and fulfills our pledge to be transparent and communicate the results of our efforts.
View our 2024 Responsible Investing Annual Report
Governance Leadership and Oversight
In consultation with the 카지노게임사이트 Secretariat, Investment Services ensures that any responsible investing recommendations adopted by the Board of Trustees are implemented.
In 2019, the Board of Trustees struck the Climate Change Action Task Force (CCATF) to develop strategic recommendations for managing Queen's investments in alignment with sustainable development goals.
Learn about CCATF's Recommendations
Investing to Address Climate Change: A Charter for Canadian Universities
"... as stewards of long-term investments, we have a responsibility to manage our capital in ways that accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy and protect our stakeholders from the growing risks associated with climate change."
Our CommitmentLeadership in Transparency
As a demonstration of our ESG leadership and our commitment to transparency, Queen's is publicly sharing our external investment managers카지노 게임 컬렉션™ thorough and thoughtful responses to our annual ESG questionnaire. In addition, we continue to disclose detailed reports of the 카지노게임사이트카지노 게임 컬렉션™s holdings.
Hear from our External Investment ManagersGuiding Principles
Queen's 카지노게임사이트 as well as the significant majority of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s external investment managers - representing approximately 90% of all investment assets - are signatories to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI). As signatories, they commit to assessing ESG factors in the context of investment decisions as represented by the six principles of the UNPRI.
Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Responsible Investing Policy was informally based on the UNPRI, which is the world카지노 게임 컬렉션™s leading proponent of responsible investment.
In recent years, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s has made a significant commitment to enhancing and formalizing its approach to Responsible Investing relating to its endowment and operational investment assets, which together comprise $2.4 billion as of April 30, 2023.
Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Responsible Investing Policy, approved by the Board of Trustees in May 2017, formally recognizes that awareness and the effective management of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) related risks and opportunities may improve long-term performance.
Decisions pertaining to responsible investing must be guided by the fiduciary responsibilities of the Board of Trustees to ensure the prudent investment of the university카지노 게임 컬렉션™s assets. As part of these fiduciary responsibilities, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s requires all external investment managers to take due regard of ESG issues in making investment decisions.
Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s also believes that corporate engagement activities (such as letters to management and voting of proxies) can be effective when dealing with ESG issues. As such, each external investment manager is asked to engage where appropriate and to regularly provide extensive reporting on their ESG activities to support the 카지노게임사이트's ongoing due diligence.
The 카지노게임사이트, acting through its Board of Trustees, has overall fiduciary responsibility for all investments.
The Board of Trustees has established an Investment Committee to help ensure that these responsibilities are met.
To achieve the funds카지노 게임 컬렉션™ objectives and diversify risk, the committee employs a variety of external investment managers with areas of specialization across a range of strategies, with a careful emphasis on risk management, as well as a long-term focus.
The Department of Investment Services at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s manages the day-to-day investment activities of the funds in accordance with policies approved by the Board of Trustees. This includes working closely with the Investment Committee on:
- investment matters and implementing committee directives
- conducting ongoing due diligence on external investment managers
- researching investment opportunities
- measuring performance against objectives
- recommending changes to external fund manager relationships and investment policy.
Members of the 카지노게임사이트 community who wish to make representations on Responsible Investing may do so, as outlined in Procedure #2 - Special Requests.
A documented submission must be put forward that clearly presents the case for the proposed action(s) pertaining to the 카지노게임사이트카지노 게임 컬렉션™s investments, which must be consistent with the 카지노게임사이트카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Fiduciary Responsibilities.
The submission must be accompanied by at least 200 individual signatures, with a minimum of 20 signatures from at least three of five constituencies (i.e. faculty, students, staff, alumni, and retirees).