Portfolios aligned with your unique values or mission
Glenmede formally launched our dedicated Sustainable Investing group in 2014 in an effort to customize portfolios that focus on both financial and environmental or social goals.
Sustainable Investing
Results Built on Ideals
Through a team of dedicated specialists, we can partner with you to build customized sustainability-aligned portfolios that seek to:
Mitigate risk
Capture growth
Produce measurable impact
2026 Sustainable Investing Outlook
As we look ahead to 2026, we believe that disciplined thematic investing—grounded in financial materiality, supported by robust research, and aligned with delivering systems-level change—offers a pragmatic framework for navigating uncertainty while identifying differentiated sources of return.
Our Focus Areas
Our Philosophy
Throughout the investment process, we seek to deliver competitive risk-adjusted returns alongside measurable environmental or social impact.
Investment Capabilities
Our public and private markets investment strategies span four distinct sustainable investment approaches.
In addition to reporting on investment performance, we can measure and explain your portfolio’s environmental or social impact.
Explicit consideration of material and relevant sustainability factors in the traditional investment decision-making process; seeking competitive risk-adjusted returns
Mandated
Screening to avoid companies with poor sustainability characteristics and favor those with strong sustainability characteristics; seeking competitive risk-adjusted returns
Thematic
Investing with a focused environmental or social lens; seeking competitive risk-adjusted returns
Concessionary High Impact
Investing with a pronounced, localized impact goal, often using program-related investments (PRIs); seeking below market-rate returns
Our Philosophy
Throughout the investment process, we seek to deliver competitive risk-adjusted returns alongside measurable environmental or social impact.
Investment Capabilities
Our public and private markets investment strategies span four distinct sustainable investment approaches.
In addition to reporting on investment performance, we can measure and explain your portfolio’s environmental or social impact.
Investing for inclusion is more than point-in-time demographics. We seek to build portfolios that account for financially material risks and opportunities in historically marginalized communities.
Investment Capabilities:
Our customized portfolios focus on racial and gender lens investing as well as the rights of the LGBTQ+, disabled, and veteran communities.
We can measure and articulate the related impact of your portfolio.
Investing for inclusion is more than point-in-time demographics. We seek to build portfolios that account for financially material risks and opportunities in historically marginalized communities.
Investment Capabilities:
Our customized portfolios focus on racial and gender lens investing as well as the rights of the LGBTQ+, disabled, and veteran communities.
We can measure and articulate the related impact of your portfolio.
Our investment portfolios seek to empower people through improved access to healthcare, inclusive financial products, safe and thriving neighborhoods, and quality education.
Investment Capabilities:
With the ability to invest across asset classes, we can build portfolios that target social inequities through a focus on access and affordability.
We can measure and articulate the tangible impact created by your portfolios to empower and address inequities.
Our investment portfolios seek to empower people through improved access to healthcare, inclusive financial products, safe and thriving neighborhoods, and quality education.
Investment Capabilities:
With the ability to invest across asset classes, we can build portfolios that target social inequities through a focus on access and affordability.
We can measure and articulate the tangible impact created by your portfolios to empower and address inequities.
Comprising experienced professionals across disciplines and sectors, the Council provides meaningful sustainability investing insights and guidance to Glenmede.
Glenmede Investment Management seeks to generate sustainable alpha for its investors through a focus on thematic investing, including via climate, gender lens, and faith-based approaches.
You will be redirected to the Thematic Investing section of Glenmede Investment Management’s website.
Sustainable investing is an umbrella term that encompasses a range of approaches that consider environmental, social, and governance information as part of the investment process in pursuit of competitive risk-adjusted returns and/or environmental or societal impact.
What is the difference between ESG and sustainable investing?
ESG investing incorporates ESG factors into investment decisions to manage risk and generate sustainable returns. Impact investing, however, specifically targets investments that yield both financial returns and measurable social or environmental benefits. While ESG principles can be broadly applied to investment portfolios, impact investments are often more targeted toward specific social or environmental goals.
What is Glenmede’s approach to sustainable investing?
We use four distinct approaches to sustainable investing: integrated, mandated, thematic, and high-impact concessionary. These can help our clients align their investment portfolios with their personal values or organizational missions.