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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.

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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
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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.
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.
Our Philosophy

We seek to deliver portfolios that consider physical and regulatory risks with growth opportunities created by climate change.

Investment Capabilities
  • Our solutions allow you to align your portfolio with both your environmental and investment goals.
  • In addition to reporting on investment performance, we can measure and report on your portfolio’s environmental or social impact.
Our Philosophy

We seek to deliver portfolios that consider physical and regulatory risks with growth opportunities created by climate change.

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Investment Capabilities
  • Our solutions allow you to align your portfolio with both your environmental and investment goals.
  • In addition to reporting on investment performance, we can measure and report on your portfolio’s environmental or social impact.
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Our Philosophy

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 Philosophy

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.

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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.
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Our Philosophy

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 Philosophy

Our investment portfolios seek to empower people through improved access to healthcare, inclusive financial products, safe and thriving neighborhoods, and quality education.

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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.
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Industry Affiliations & Partnerships

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Glenmede’s Sustainable Investing Advisory Council

Comprising experienced professionals across disciplines and sectors, the Council provides meaningful sustainability investing insights and guidance to Glenmede.

 

Meet the Council

Talk to our Sustainable Investing team to align your investment portfolio with your values.

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Thematic Investing

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is sustainable investing?
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.

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