Responsible Investing

At our core, Acadian seeks investments that are likely to generate the best risk-adjusted returns. We believe such investments are characterized by strong financial health, solid business prospects, effective corporate governance and upside potential. Acadian has an active research agenda to integrate ESG factors into our process as we maintain our fiduciary duty to our clients to maximize risk-adjusted returns.

Acadian's commitment to the ESG research agenda is based on the following premises: ESG issues may be material investment issues, and we seek to be leaders in this growing field; the academic and practitioner research on quantitative ESG signals is growing and is quite compelling; the sources of information are becoming more robust; and the potential return to such research is likely to be attractive.

ESG Investing at Acadian

Acadian has Responsible Investing capabilities at each step of our investment process:


We have uncovered responsible investment factors that have the potential to add value at both the bottom-up and top-down levels, and these are integrated within our core process. In addition, we offer customized ESG capabilities in our portfolio construction and proxy voting systems at client request.

ESG Affiliations

Acadian is a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, ESG-RA, and SIO-Canada.

Further information

For more information please contact our Director of Responsible Investing, Asha Mehta, CFA