Generation Investment Management
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Generation Investment Management (Generation IM) is a sustainable investment management firm founded in 2004; its co-founders included former US Vice President Al Gore and former Goldman Sachs' Asset Management head David Blood, along with five other founders,[1] with a vision to see long-term sustainable investing become best practice and for sustainable capitalism to become the enduring economic model.[2]
Generation operates four strategies, investing both public and private equity: Global Equity, Asia Equity, Growth Equity and Private Equity;[3] alongside a climate-led investing business, Just Climate.[4]
Generation has offices in London and San Francisco,[5] and Template:As of, employed over 100 people.[6] Generation Investment Management LLP is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK.
Generation has built a global research platform to integrate sustainability research into fundamental equity analysis.[7]
History
Generation was founded in April 2004 by a group of seven founding partners led by Al Gore and David Blood.[8] Its goal was integrating the disciplines of finance and sustainability.
In 2021 Generation launched Just Climate, a climate-led investment business aiming to address the net-zero challenge at scale.[9] It closed its inaugural Climate Assets Fund I in 2023, raising $1.5 billion.[10]
Partnerships
- Net Zero Asset Managers initiative [11]
- The Climate Pledge[12]
- Ceres[13]
- The Alliance for Climate Protection (Repower America)
- World Resources Institute
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- The Climate Project
Investments
Investments by Generation funds include:
References
External links
- Generation Investment Management Profile from the Financial Times (requires log-in)
- For People and For Planet, a 3/28/06 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal by Al Gore and David Blood
- We Need Sustainable Capitalism, an 11/5/08 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal by Al Gore and David Blood
- When Principles Aid Performance, an article about the firm from the Financial Times, April 2007
- Generation Announces Plans For New Investment Management Firm, the November 2004 press release
- SEC Regulatory Information and Disclosed Holdings
- Al Gore and David Blood interviewed by WIRED, April 2018
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