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Stewart Investors Spotlights Six Global Companies Leading the Way to Housing Sustainability

Stuart Mitchell

With housing representing an estimated 17 percent of global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, the quest for building, operating, and maintaining durable structures is a pressing global priority, according to Stewart Investors, a long-only active equity specialist and a global leader in sustainable investing. Stewart Investors has identified six global companies that are leading the way to a more sustainable housing sector. “As the need for housing continues to accelerate globally amid volatile climate conditions, finding solutions to building durable structures and reducing the sector’s carbon footprint takes on greater urgency,”…

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Stewart Investors becomes first investment manager to join the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance

Stuart Mitchell

Stewart Investors, an active long-only equity specialist and a global leader in sustainable investing, has become the first investment management firm to become a member of the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA), an organization addressing the global demand for more socially and environmentally responsible mining. With a global presence, IRMA’s members include both civil society and corporate entities from across the globe, representing the mining industry, consumer-facing brands, labor unions, NGOs, and mining-impacted communities, including Indigenous rights holders. Board members include: Anglo American, Mercedes-Benz, Human Rights Watch, IndustriALL Global Union,…

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Stewart Investors Highlights Global Companies at the Forefront of Developing Sustainable Food Systems

Stuart Mitchell

Food systems are among the largest contributors of global CO2 emissions and, accordingly, offer one of the greatest sources of potential abatement, according to Stewart Investors, an active, long-only equity specialist and global leader in sustainable investing. Stewart Investors, which holds numerous food systems-related companies across its worldwide, emerging markets and regional strategies, has identified five companies that it believes are innovators in food systems sustainability and have provided competitive long-term returns to investors. “Food systems represent nearly a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions and reducing the pressure on ecosystems…

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Stewart Investors launches Global Emerging Markets (ex-China) Leaders Sustainability Fund

Stuart Mitchell

Stewart Investors, an active, long-only equity specialist focused on sustainable investing since 2005, has recently launched a Global Emerging Markets (ex-China) Leaders Sustainability Fund (“the Fund”). The Fund is available as a VCC for investors in EMEA and Asia, reflecting growing appetite among investors for the investment manager’s emerging markets-focused funds. The UCITS fund, managed by Jack Nelson, leverages the team’s decades of expertise and strong track record of investing in emerging markets. It will invest in high-quality companies with exceptional cultures, strong franchises, and resilient financials outside of mainland…

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Stewart Investors’ Global Emerging Markets Sustainability Strategy Marks 15-Year Anniversary With Benchmark-Beating Returns

Stuart Mitchell

Stewart Investors, a long-only active equity specialist and global leader in sustainable investing, is marking the 15-year anniversary of its Global Emerging Markets Sustainability (GEMS) strategy with benchmark-beating returns across multiple time periods, net of fees, through March 31, 2024. Launched on Feb. 28, 2009, the Stewart Investors GEMS strategy composite has generated an annualized return of 10.0%, net of fees, for the 15-year period through March 31, 2024, versus 7.0% for its benchmark, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The GEMS strategy composite also outperformed its benchmark over the 10,…

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