Contrast helps you
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Our clients span the full investment value chain

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From pension funds to wealth managers, fund managers, family offices, financial services providers, industry associations and companies, our clients come to Contrast Capital because they value direct dialogue with experts who offer challenging and concrete solutions.

Whether their focus is on “responsible investment”, “sustainability investing” or “impact investment”, we make sure that our clients are equipped with a tailored, robust and coherent approach to integrate material ESG factors in investment decisions in all asset classes, and to improve their sustainability impacts.

Our Investors Advisory Services provide support for every step of the journey

Strategy development

Including Sustainable Finance Disclosure Requirements (SFDR), EU Taxonomy, MiFID II.

Understand fund manager DNA and current RI approach. Identify potential for improvement.

Quant analysis using PRI data and customized peer group. Identify best practices.

Including short-term and long-term priorities, project implementation plan.

Implementation in investment processes

Including climate risks analysis.

Development of materiality framework and processes to integrate ESG convictions in idea generation, fundamental analysis, valuation, benchmark selection.

Define ESG data needs, review and select ESG data providers, incorporate ESG data in portfolio management systems.

Market analysis, product concept and positioning, product development and implementation.

Identify goals, priorities and most effective engagement mechanisms.

Portfolio-level impact measurement and monitoring, setting impact objectives.

Capacity-building

Including formal responsibilities, alignment of incentives.

Including group-level RI policy, asset-class specific investment guidelines, stewardship policy, exclusion policy, climate / impact management policy, security lending policy.

For investment teams and client-facing teams.

Including regulatory requirements, PRI Reporting, Principle for Sustainable Banking, client reporting, investor relations.

We also actively work to unlock the value of ESG by supporting the financial industry in complementary areas

Education Tools

In partnership with leading institutions, we develop education and training tools for finance professionals to expand their competences in sustainable investing. Our courses are designed for portfolio managers and investment analysts as well as relationship managers.

Industry Initiatives

We believe mainstreaming sustainable investment is essential to solve urgent global challenges at scale. We work closely with industry initiatives and NGOs that seek to drive change in the financial industry. We help them develop benchmarking tools, disseminate best practices and drive standardization.

Contrast helps you see the nuances in sustainable investing