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Broughton House, 6-8 Sackville Street, London W1S 3DG
Contact: Charlotte Steel, Analyst
Tel: 020 7432 2613
Fax: 020 7437 1245
Email: c.steel@impax.co.uk
Web: www.impax.co.uk
Impax Group plc (“Impax”) is a financial services and energy company quoted on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. The focus of the Group is on the provision of corporate finance services to private and public sector clients across the renewable energy, waste management and water sectors.
The financial services business within Impax has two wholly owned subsidiaries covering corporate finance and asset management, both regulated by the Financial Services Authority, as described below.
Impax Capital Corporation Limited (“ICC”) is the corporate finance business providing corporate merger and acquisition, debt and equity finance raising and related advisory services to companies across the renewable energy, waste management and water sectors. The company has a proven track record of transaction closure having raised finance and acted as advisor for some of the largest renewable energy and waste management schemes in Europe. ICC has significant experience of advising UK and EU government departments and agencies in the design of market based renewable energy and emissions trading “frameworks” and support mechanisms; and acts for multinational, medium and small sized companies on a variety of sector specific advisory tasks.
Impax Asset Management Limited (“IAM”) provides fund management and advisory services to investors. IAM has particular expertise in managing portfolios of Environmental Infrastructure and Technology listed stocks and is the originator of the ET-50, an index comprising 50 of the largest “pure play” environmental technology companies from 14 countries. IAM manages Impax Environmental Markets plc, a £50 million investment trust raised in February 2002 for investment in listed companies in the environmental sector. The unit is the investment manager for The Recycling Fund, a £5.5m equity fund supported by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme), focusing specifically on the recycling sector. The unit is also lead advisor to two listed equity funds investing in a global portfolio of environmental technology stocks and is the lead managing agent to the International Finance Corporation for a US $25m facility for investment in solar energy in emerging markets.
IAM and ICC have between them a dedicated and versatile team of professional and support staff based in London, offering access to a network of project sponsors and finance providers, as well as private and institutional investors in the expanding environmental technology markets.
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Imperial House 94 Oakley Rd, Southampton SO16 4LJ
Contact: Keith Gregory
Tel: 02380 705444
Fax: 02380 705445
Email: keithgregory@iifaltd.com
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108 Redford Loan, Edinburgh EH13 0AT
Name: Chris Donald, Managing Director
Tel: 07970 659176
Email: chris@innovate-fs.co.uk
Web: www.innovate-fs.co.uk
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4 Royal Mint Court, London EC3N 4HJ
Contact: Andy White, Managing Director
Tel: 020 7073 0470
Fax: 020 7073 0473
Email: awhite@innovestgroup.com
Web: www.innovestgroup.com
The Innovest Gorup is an internationally recognised specialist equity research company specializing in the research of companies' social and environmental performance and their impact on share price performance, profitability and competitiveness.
Founded in 1995 with the mission of identifying non-traditional sources of risk and value for investors, the company currently has over US $1.5 billion under direct sub advisory mandates with partners including ABN-Amro, Mellon Capital, SSgA, T.Rowe Price and ABP (Netherlands), one of the three largest pension funds in the world. Innovest also provides custom portfolio analysis and equity research to leading fund managers including, Schroders, Bank Sarasin, CalPERS and Rockefeller and Co. In addition Innovest provides research and strategic consultancy to blue chip companies.
The company's founder, Dr Matthew Kiernan, is a former partner with KPMG and director of the World Council for Sustainable Development. Its Chairman was the chief investment officer for North America's largest pension fund for over 15 years. Innovest's other directors and principals include former senior executives from several of the world's leading financial companies as well as a former G7 finance minister. Innovest's products include its widely respected Eco Value 21 investment analytics platform which was developed with strategic partners including Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Morgan Stanley, and the Sustainabaility report which provides a comprehensive analysis of a company's intangible assets, covering performance both socially and in the arena of strategic governance.
Innovest is headquartered in New York with offices in Toronto, London, Paris and Madrid. Teams of analysts are located within each office to provide Innovest with a global team of research experts located strategically around the world.
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33 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1HZ
Contact: Rory Sullivan, Head of Investor Responsibility
Tel: 020 7321 1875
Fax: 020 7321 1426
Email: rory.sullivan@insightinvestment.com
Web: www.insightinvestment.com
Insight Investment is part of the HBOS Group. Launched in 2002, Insight Investment is one of the UK's largest asset managers with £98.6bn in assets under management (as at 31 December 2006).
Insight believes that, as an investment manager, we have a duty to our clients to consider in our investment decision making, the potential financial impacts of companies' exposure to, and management of, environmental, social and governance issues. We also believe that it is in our clients' best interests that we encourage high standards of corporate governance and corporate responsibility in the companies in which we invest.
In 2002, we made a policy commitment to manage all of our clients' funds according to responsible investment principles. To deliver on that commitment, we established a market-leading Investor Responsibility team. Since then, we have played a leading role in many debates on corporate governance, climate change, sustainable development and corporate responsibility, and we have influenced the companies in which we invest to run their businesses more responsibly.
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Palace House, 3 Cathedral Street, London SE1 9DE
Contact: Elisa de Santis, Senior Responsible Investment Analyst Tel: 020 7716 6604 Email: elisa.de.santis@inspireinvest.com
Fax: 020 7357 6048
Web: www.inspiregroup.no
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3 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H 0DD
Name: Dr Sonja Vermeulen
Tel: 0207 388 2117
Fax: 0207 388 2826
Email: sonja.vermeulen@iied.org
Web: www.iied.org
IIED are an independent, non-profit policy research institute interested in promoting and providing information regarding sustainable international investment.
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Epworth House, 25 City Road, London EC1Y 1AA
Contact:
Tel: 020 7614 8510
Fax: 020 7614 8519
Email: rrevmarketing@issproxy.com
Web: www.issproxy.com
Institutional Shareholder Service's (ISS) Social Investment Research Service (SIRS) provides original and impartial social research to investors. SIMON, our interactive web-based delivery system currently contains over 80 screens covering 17 social issues - with more constantly being developed. Since investors' social concerns vary, SIRS extensive database makes it possible for them to define their own social criteria. Founded in 1984, SIRS' screens cover all public U.S. companies and all foreign companies included in the S&P 500 Index. We maintain the largest database in the U.S. on issues of corporate responsibility - liberal and conservative. ISS is the world's largest provider of proxy voting and corporate governance services covering 9,000 US and 8,400 non-US shareholder meetings each year. ISS is a Thompson Financial company, a provider of information services for the financial community.
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122 Hamstead Hall Road, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham B20 1JB
Contact: Alan Moran, Director
Tel: 0121 554 4444
Fax: 0121 554 0202
Email: alan.moran@interface.co.uk
Web: www.interfacefinancialplanning.co.uk
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St Marys House, Duke Street, Norwich, Norfolk NR3 1QA
Contact: Alan Kirkham, Director
Tel: 01603 661 121
Fax: 01603 621 123
Email: alan@investing-ethically.co.uk
Web: www.investing-ethically.co.uk
Ethical financial advice. We are a team with ethical expertise who are deeply committed to ethical investment. We offer pensions, investments, mortgage protection, life insurance, savings and more.
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1 Regents Place, Blackheath, London SE3 0LX
Contact: Geoff Burnard, Director
Tel: 020 7060 1175
Fax:
Email: gburnard@investingforgood.org
Web: www.investingforgood.org
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