
CC&L Core Income and Growth featured in Morningstar’s Fund Insight
Andrew Zimcik was recently interviewed by Morningstar to discuss the Core Income and Growth’s investment objectives, philosophy and holdings.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Andrew Zimcik was recently interviewed by Morningstar to discuss the Core Income and Growth’s investment objectives, philosophy and holdings.
The CC&L Foundation has donated to the Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto for a number of years and has recently furthered support with a multi-year commitment.
Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management is pleased to announce its endorsement of the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
The Connor, Clark & Lunn Foundation (CC&L Foundation) is pleased to announce it has donated $25,000 to the Canadian Red Cross in support of India’s relief efforts.
CC&L Financial Group announced the launch of the Connor, Clark & Lunn UCITS ICAV. The initial sub-funds include the CC&L Q Emerging Markets Equity UCITS Fund and the CC&L Q Global Equity Market Neutral UCITS Fund. The investment manager is Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd.