Articles

Individuals, the ultimate architects of a company and its culture, will need to be honest with themselves and choose whether they want to focus on appearance or substance. Corporate culture has been engrained over decades so strong characters, with character, need to step forward. If you don’t question things, then nothing will ever change.

Q3 2021, Issue 8 — The Official Quarterly Magazine of ESG Ireland. The latest issue features articles from leading investment managers, and interviews with Aidan McKenna of Enterprise Ireland and the co-founder of a startup focusing on cooling the cloud!

For a growing cohort of investors, financial returns aren’t enough. Those investors seek social and environmental progress in tandem with competitive investment performance. Impact investing through public equities provides an innovative mechanism to help realise their objectives.

Reconnecting with the Natural World – A Chat with Jack Dwyer, Co-Founder of Vyra, a sustainability start-up aiming to re-establish the connection between people and the natural world.

We also recognise our responsibility as an industry leader to help our trustees and clients prepare for the challenges and opportunities that the future will present and were delighted in 2020 to support the delivery of Ireland’s first Responsible Investment Trustee (RIT) qualification.

We believe that a careful portfolio combination of quality, from ESG Winners, and rerating opportunities, linked to ESG Improvers, will allow investors to achieve a more attractive risk-adjusted return.