Liontrust Sustainable Investment Annual Review 2023 - Flipbook - Page 6
Investing in the team
We believe investing in the team is vital if we are to achieve the
best results for investors.
We have a 17-strong team that has been managing the Sustainable
Future funds for 23 years, with a mixture of experience and youth.
In 2021, we took on four graduates and we are pleased to have
seen them develop and grow into new roles within the team.
Last year, we also welcomed two new people on to the team.
Conor Godsell joined from abrdn and is an investment manager,
while Linnea Bengtsson is an investment analyst and joined from the
Sustainable Equity team at Ninety One.
Liontrust Advisory Committee
Ivana Gazibara is a futures and systems change
expert, currently working with the TransCap
Initiative to build the field of systemic impact
investing.
Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable
Development at the University of Surrey and
Director of the Centre for the Understanding of
Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP).
A key differentiator from many other firms is the fact all the
sustainable elements are fully integrated within a single team. We
do not have separate fund management and ESG divisions, for
example. Instead, every member is responsible for all aspects of
financial and ESG analysis relating to an investment decision.
Because of this approach, our team engages with companies
across a broad range of issues relating to different stages in our
investment process, including screening criteria, sustainable themes
and company-specific ESG issues.
Tony Greenham is the ESG Director at the British
Business Bank, the UK’s economic development
bank providing finance for start-ups, scaleups and small and medium sized businesses
to transition to a net zero economy. He was
previously Director of Economy, Enterprise and
Manufacturing at the RSA (Royal Society of Arts,
Manufactures and Commerce).
The team, headed by Peter Michaelis, has over 200 years of
industry experience. We also have a four-strong external Advisory
Committee to provide another layer of expertise in key
areas of social and environmental impact:
Ivana Gazibara, Tim Jackson, Tony
Greenham and Mark Stevenson.
Mark Stevenson is a strategic advisor to
governments, investors, NGOs and corporates
and co-founder of Carbon Removals company
CUR8. He is Global Ambassador for
environmental law firm Client Earth and former
strategic advisor to the UK Ministry of Defence.
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