Who we are
The Global 100 is a partnership project between Corporate Knights Inc. and Innovest Strategic Value Advisors Inc. Corporate Knights is the publisher of the Global 100 and the organizer of the annual Davos presentation. Innovest is the exclusive research analytic provider for the Global 100.
Founded in 2002, Corporate Knights Inc. is an independent Canadian-based media company that publishes the world’s largest circulation magazine with an explicit focus on corporate responsibility. Corporate Knights also publishes the annual Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada as a Globe and Mail insert.
Innovest Strategic Value Advisors Inc.
Innovest Strategic Value Advisors was founded in 1995 with the mission of integrating sustainability and finance by identifying non-traditional sources of risk and value potential for investors. Innovest’s analysis is designed to assist its clients in constructing and managing portfolios that out-perform the market. They do this by tracking company performance and strategic positioning on over 120 factors that are not captured or explained by the traditional, accounting-driven securities analysis.
Innovest currently has over US$1.3 billion under structured sub-advisory mandates with asset management partners such as State Street Global Advisors, CalPERS, and others. Innovest also provides custom portfolio analysis and research to more than thirty major institutional investors including UBS, Henderson Global Advisors, HSBC, BNP Paribas, Schroders Investment Management, Cazenove Capital and Rockefeller & Co., as well as the leading pension funds in the U.S., the U.K., continental Europe and Scandinavia. Innovest currently has clients in over twenty countries.
Innovest has 45 employees located throughout the world in its offices in New York , London , Tokyo , Paris , Toronto , San Francisco and Sydney . Innovest’s staff speaks, collectively, 18 languages.