The Five Pillars of Impact Investing Success

84% of Millennials and 76% Women

are interested in impact investing.

MORGAN STANLEY, 20151

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76%

84%

MILLENNIALS

WOMEN

Demand for impact investing has grown dramatically in recent years, and advisors are increasingly challenged to meet that emerging interest. Here’s how PMC’s five pillars can help you deliver a comprehensive impact investing program.

01

RESEARCH

Research shows that investment funds incorporating ESG factors

grew by over 6x in total net assets from 2010-2014.

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$1.013B

$4.306B

$559M

PMC's rigorous research filters down a universe of

nearly 1,000 impact managers to 30

Approved-Impact Select managers.

450

150

30

IMPACT MANAGERS ON THE

ENVESTNET PLATFORM

APPROVED-IMPACT

MANAGERS

APPROVED IMPACT-SELECT

MANAGERS

2010

2012

2014

 

02

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

OTHER SMA ACCOUNTS

IMPACT SMA ACCOUNTS

The average account size of impact SMAs is

larger than that of other SMA accounts –

A huge opportunity for advisors.

25%

ENVESTAT, MARCH 20152

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of investors incorporate

5+ themes into their portfolios.

39%

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PMC offers up to

screens of customization

so your clients can easily expand or

limit their investment options based

on practices they wish to support, and

businesses they choose to exclude.

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Advisors who are aware of socially responsible

investments may have the ability to work

with younger investors more easily.

SPECTREM RESEARCH, 20153

PMC helps advisors engage clients and make more informed

impact investing decisions with timely commentary,

award-winning research4, and practice management tools.

03

OVERLAY

Different investors have different impact investing preferences:

$4.27B

INVESTED IN SOCIAL

$3.53B

INVESTED IN GOVERNANCE

$1.76B

INVESTED IN PRODUCTS

$2.94B

INVESTED IN ENVIRONMENT

Impact SMAs outperformed non-impact counterparts by

over a complete market cycle

15.4%

ENVESTAT, MARCH 20165

04

REPORTING

PMC quarterly reports will detail performance

against industry benchmarks and

include case studies to help highlight

success beyond portfolio returns.

 

05

INVESTMENT SOLUTIONS

Today, more and more investors want to

find financial return and achieve social good at the same time.

 

2006

2016

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PMC Impact Portfolios are grounded in capital

markets assumptions and asset allocation

methodology, and constructed using

best-in-class impact managers

 from that growing marketplace.

PMC Quantitative Portfolios will
provide cost-effective, large-cap
index exposure to securities with

high Sustainalytics ratings.

TIME

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future results.

 

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About ENVESTAT: Envestat delivers regular digests of business intelligence designed to provide context to the decisions that financial advisors and enter- prise business owners face every day. While the regular digests provide insights that revolve around a quarterly theme, our quarterly, Envestat Intersection connects these insights to highlight the significance of the quarterly theme and its impact on advisory practices. The data provided is derived from Envest- net user data composite and has not been independently verified.

 

1. Morgan Stanley, “Sustainable Signals: The Individual Investor Perspective”, February 2015.

 

2. Data from SMA portfolios on the Envestnet platform from 2013 to 2015.

 

3. Spectrem Research, “High Net Worth Millennials, 2015”

 

4. PMC Quantitative Research 2014 paper, “How and Why SRI Performance Differs from Conventional Strategies” received an Honourable Mention for the 2014 Sustainalytics Prize for Excellence in Responsible Investment Research.

 

5. Data from impact and non-impact SMA portfolios, consisting of funds managed by PMC and/or third-party fund strategists, on the Envestnet platform from 2007 to 2015.

Learn more about how Envestnet | PMC Impact can help you add

a new dimension to your practice through best-in-class solutions

that support both positive social impact and financial goals.

Visit investpmc.com/impact.

In fact, the impact marketplace

has increased tenfold, or

929%

over the last 10 years.

RETURN

FINANCIAL RETURN

SOCIAL GOOD

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