Volery Capital mapped over 1,200 sustainable managers across global asset classes
Manny Citron · Sustainable Investing 4: Emanuel Citron – Sourcing Sustainable Managers (Capital Allocators, EP.142) · Jun 18, 2020 · at 13:36
Manny Citron, Managing Partner of Volery Capital, explains how the firm systematically analyzed the universe of sustainable and impact asset managers.
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“So we have so far mapped over 1200 managers across asset classes and geographies. And the, you know, the majority of those are not addressable for us as investment propositions, primarily because they're subscale or they operate in geographies that are outside of our scope.”
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