Institutional investors - pension funds, foundations & endowments, asset managers, HNWIs - as well as international organizations, need independent, original approaches to sustainability. Sustainable investment is an emerging discipline in investment practice. SinCo acts as specialist ESG architect and investment strategist, moving our clients up their learning and experience curves in the shortest space of time to reduce cost and increase positive outcomes in the sustainable investment space. Sinco is a small shop at the cutting edge of sustainable investment, we choose to do work that matters.

SinCo's portfolio of work ranges from major multi-year, multi-asset class, multi-country investment product architectural re-builds to short-term high quality project management for immediate delivery. SinCo's role differs from assignment to assignment, sometimes embedding into the investment firm like classic strategic management consultants, at other times acting as advisor and confidant supporting change management or global projects. Each situation is unique, only the skill-set we bring and the years of experience, remains constant. Our solutions are tailor-made solely for each engagement. We actively seek clients who have intellectually challenging or practically difficult investment architecture questions that require high quality work by a domain expert.

Going forward we plan to invite clients to share their stories, and we will offer short case stories demonstrating our work through this page. Currently we offer below some high-level descriptions of our previous work since 2006.

			Management Develop sustainable index strategy for emerging market country for national sustainability organization
			Management + Manufacturing + Marketing Designed, developed and executed multi-country sub-Saharan Africa study of sustainable investment in private equity and listed equity asset classes for international development financing institution.
			Management + Manufacturing Conducted global benchmarking study for emerging markets infrastructure fund in Africa
			Marketing Developed sustainable index proposition covering sector in developed, emerging and frontier markets for international organization
			Management Developed proposition and project management for continental not-for-profit sustainable investment network
			Management + Manufacturing Major investment firm global asset management approach to integrating ESG factors
			Manufacturing + Marketing Mapping input and marketing message for long/short ESG hedge fund in U.S.
			Marketing Marketing plan for sustainable finance NGO in Switzerland
			Marketing Developing educational materials for practitioner case story of ESG integration in U.S.
			Marketing Pension Fund four-day trustee training on responsible investment
			Manufacturing + Marketing Workshop on PRI and networking in emerging markets for ESG integration in Africa
			Manufacturing Workshopping equity valuation and sustainability gap analysis in Europe
			Management + Manufacturing Developing investment case and investment vehicle ideas for an international organization

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SinCo may with client consent be able to share current work moving forward sustainable investment in frontier and emerging markets and will post snapshots here.

• Africa Sustainable Investment Forum [AfricaSIF] is a not-for-profit network of investment practitioners promoting sustainable development in Africa by attracting sustainable investment from public, private and philanthropy sectors across asset classes, countries and stakeholders with a virtual home at africasif.org. AfricaSIF is a network, knowledgebase and advocate for sustainable investment in Africa. Starting in January 2010, the AfricaSIF Project steering committee is building the AfricaSIF community of people active in the investment value chain in Africa toward our launch in May 2010 and first major conference in Q4 2010. We aim to launch with in-person events in Africa in 2010 together with virtual events globally to celebrate this important new step in enabling investment in Africa integrating environmental, social and governance [ESG] factors. AfricaSIF is a platform for scaling up answers in Africa. We invite you to please join us in moving forward sustainable investment in Africa.


• IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, Sinclair & Company and RisCura Launch Ground-Breaking Multi-Country Sustainable Investment Survey in Africa
  With a Focus on Private Equity
  

  The study will provide investors worldwide with a better understanding of the extent to which sustainability is integrated into investment practices in the region. by investment managers in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya. More than 50 asset owner and investment manager interviews are being conducted and the project is expected to last three months. The report due in May 2010 will be similar to IFC country studies on Brazil, India and China available at http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/sustainability.nsf/Content/SustainableInvesting. If you would like to participate in the study by completing the online survey, please click through this LINK