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We collaborate with other like-minded organizations as part of our engagement and stewardship activities. This may arise through participation in affiliations such as those listed below, or may transpire through ad-hoc initiatives where our involvement is limited to a single collaboration.

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CC&L Investment Management is an advocate of good governance
practices globally and is pleased to be a founding member of the
Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG), whose members
manage approximately $6 trillion in combined assets.

 

In July 2019, CC&L Investment Management became a supporter of the
International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) through our
affiliation with CC&L Financial Group. This membership complements
CC&L Investment Management’s active involvement in the CCGG.

  • 2016

     

    In 2016, the firm’s first full year as a signatory to the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), CC&L Investment Management signed on to a UN PRI collaborative initiative, the Statement on ESG in Credit Ratings and Analysis, encouraging the credit rating agencies to formally integrate ESG factors into their credit ratings. The intent is to help ensure ESG risks are appropriately addressed in issuer creditworthiness assessments, which will increase investor confidence in the quality and utility of those ratings.

  • 2017

     

    In 2017, CC&L Investment Management endorsed CCGG’s proposed amendments to the Canada Business Corporations Act as set out in Bill C-25, namely, adding majority voting for directors, annual individual elections of directors and diversity disclosure.

  • 2019

     

    In 2019, CC&L Investment Management added its name in support of the Investor Statement to Support the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles. This Statement was distributed to a large set of global issuers, starting with the constituents of the MSCI World Index.

  • January 2020

     

    In January 2020, CC&L Investment Management signed a letter put forward by the PRI and sent to the SEC voicing concern with proposed rule changes related to proxy voting. The proposed changes would make it meaningfully more difficult for shareholders to put forward shareholder proposals and would hinder the independence and timeliness of proxy advisor recommendations, such as those CC&L Investment Management utilizes from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS).

  • September 2020

     

    In September 2020 CC&L Investment Management signed on to the Responsible Investment Association’s (RIA) Canadian Investor Statement on Diversity & Inclusion. The Statement acknowledges the existence of systemic racism and it’s impacts on Black and Indigenous communities and People of Colour in Canada and globally and asks Canadian public companies to endeavor to increase transparency, adopt policies and expand and disclose organizational efforts to address barriers to diversity and inclusion.

Associations

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United Nations – backed Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI)

In 2016, the firm’s first full year as a signatory to the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), CC&L signed on to a UN PRI collaborative initiative, the Statement on ESG in Credit Ratings and Analysis, encouraging the credit rating agencies to formally integrate ESG factors into their credit ratings. The intent is to help ensure ESG risks are appropriately addressed in issuer creditworthiness assessments, which will increase investor confidence in the quality and utility of those ratings.

International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)

In 2017, CC&L endorsed CCGG’s proposed amendments to the Canada Business Corporations Act as set out in Bill C-25, namely, adding majority voting for directors, annual individual elections of directors and diversity disclosure.

Responsible Investment Association (RIA)

In 2019, CC&L added its name in support of the Investor Statement to Support the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles. This Statement was distributed to a large set of global issuers, starting with the constituents of the MSCI World Index.

The Financial Stability Board Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

In January 2020, CC&L signed a letter put forward by the PRI and sent to the SEC voicing concern with proposed rule changes related to proxy voting. The proposed changes would make it meaningfully more difficult for shareholders to put forward shareholder proposals and would hinder the independence and timeliness of proxy advisor recommendations, such as those CC&L utilizes from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS).

Canadian Coalition for Good Governance

In September 2020 CC&L signed on to the Responsible Investment Association’s (RIA) Canadian Investor Statement on Diversity & Inclusion. The Statement acknowledges the existence of systemic racism and it's impacts on Black and Indigenous communities and People of Colour in Canada and globally and asks Canadian public companies to endeavor to increase transparency, adopt policies and expand and disclose organizational efforts to address barriers to diversity and inclusion.

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