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29 April 2008
Enhanced Analytics Initiative, Bainbridge Graduate Institute Win Inaugural Joan Bavaria Awards
Source: www.ceres.org
April 29, 2008
BOSTON – Ceres and Trillium Asset Management Corporation (“Trillium”) today announced the inaugural winners of the Joan Bavaria Awards for Building Sustainability into the Capital Markets. The two winners were announced at the Ceres annual conference in Boston.
The winner of the Bavaria Award for Impact is Enhanced Analytics Initiative (EAI), an international collaboration between asset owners and asset managers aimed at encouraging research providers to produce investment research that takes into account the impact of extra-financial issues on long-term company performance.
The winner of the Bavaria Award for Innovation is the Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI) in Washington, the first graduate school in the U.S. to offer an MBA in Sustainable Business.
Ceres and Trillium established the new annual awards program in honor of Joan Bavaria, a socially responsible investment pioneer who co-founded Trillium in 1982 and Ceres in 1989. The awards celebrate Bavaria’s distinguished career in integrating social and environmental factors in capital market decision-making. Bavaria also founded the Social Investment Forum in 1981.
The awards recognize investors, companies, and nonprofit groups that have contributed specific achievements in spurring the capital markets to move from a system focused on short-term profits to one that also integrates longer-term social and environmental factors into investment decision-making. The impact award recognizes achievements that have already creating lasting changes in capital markets; the innovation award honors achievements that have the potential to create lasting change.
“EAI and BGI are both inspirational examples of Joan Bavaria’s vision of global sustainability concerns being treated by the capital markets not as fringe matters, but as the financial issues of materiality that they indeed are,” said Mindy S. Lubber, president of Ceres and one of the Bavaria award judges.
Founded in 2004, EAI is comprised of 30 members managing nearly $3.3 trillion (€2.1 trillion) in assets. Member organizations commit to allocating a percentage of their institutions’ brokerage commissions to pay for research analyzing corporate performance on these extra-financial issues. Participating organizations in the U.S. include the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the New York City Employees’ Retirement System, and the socially responsible investment firm Calvert.
Washington-based BGI’s MBA in Sustainable Business has pioneered the integration of social and environmental responsibility across a full spectrum of the graduate business curriculum. Since its founding in 2002, BGI has trained hundreds of students to successfully lead large corporations, small businesses, and non-profit organizations to compete in the mainstream marketplace while simultaneously including sustainability as a core strategy.
“In distinct, yet equally important ways, both EAI and BGI are building the infrastructure for integrating sustainability into the capital markets and corporate world. EAI encourages research that traditional financial institutions understand, and it has been essential in helping investors incorporate ESG issues and other extra-financial data into their investment allocations,” said Ken Sylvester, one of the Bavaria Award judges and assistant comptroller for pension policy in the New York City Comptroller’s Office, which manages over $115 billion in assets. “BGI’s curriculum is exactly what we need in our business schools today to train the future CEOs, board members, and other corporate leaders for whom sustainability will be a key business challenge and opportunity.”
“Receiving a Bavaria Award is testament to the significant impact EAI has had in the past three years. Much of our success has only been possible because of the combined foresight of our members and the receptiveness of research providers, willing to hear our call,” said Peter Scales, Chairman of EAI. “The resulting increase in the quality and the quantity of investment research analyzing long term extra-financial factors has reinforced our belief that the integration of these issues within investment research is crucial to informed and responsible long-term investment decision-making.”
“BGI’s innovative approach has proven to be a model for changing the way business schools around the country incorporate sustainability into their programs,” said Gifford Pinchot, BGI’s President and Founder. “As faculty return to their home institutions from our month-long residential immersion program, they bring with them a new understanding of how global business can be transformed in the direction of the good, thus prompting more and more requests for BGI’s help in designing sustainable MBA programs elsewhere.”
The five judges who selected this year’s winners include experienced individuals at the forefront of the sustainability movement. The panel included: Ray Anderson, chairman and founder of Interface, Inc., the world''s top manufacturer of modular carpet and a leader on corporate sustainability; Denis Hayes, president of the Bullitt Foundation and organizer of the first Earth Day; Mindy S. Lubber, president of Ceres and director of the Investor Network on Climate Risk; Cheryl Smith, executive vice president of Trillium; and Ken Sylvester, assistant comptroller for pension policy of the New York City Comptroller’s Office which manages more than $115 billion in assets.
Nominations for the 2009 Bavaria Awards are now being accepted via the Ceres website at www.ceres.org/bavaria_awards.
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