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We believe that a company’s commitment to implementing ESG principles create a distinct competitive advantage and builds long-term value. Trillium’s robust, fully integrated investment process uses a propriety ESG scoring methodology, coupled with a time-tested fundamental approach, to identify compelling investment opportunities and competitive risk adjusted returns. The firm’s dedicated shareholder advocacy team is at the intersection of investment management and impact, engaging with companies to align values with investment objectives.
Trillium believes that integrating environmental, social, and governance factors into the financial analysis process can help identify the best companies positioned to deliver long-term risk adjusted performance. It is fundamental to our mission and fiduciary responsibility to engage with the companies that we hold on behalf of clients to press for positive change on any material ESG concern or opportunity that we believe will help protect or enhance shareholder value.
For over 40 years, Trillium has exercised its rights and powers as a shareholder to improve the ESG policies, practices and—most importantly—impacts of the companies held in our portfolios.
As investors and fiduciaries to our clients, we believe it is our responsibility to encourage the companies we invest in to do better, to be more sustainable, and to be more just. We pursue this work not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but also because we believe it contributes to a company’s long-term performance.
Trillium Asset Management offers investment strategies and services that advance humankind towards a global sustainable economy, a just society, and a better world. For nearly 40 years, the firm has been at the forefront of ESG thought leadership and draws from decades of experience focused exclusively on responsible investing. Devoted to aligning stakeholders’ values and objectives, Trillium combines impactful investment solutions with active ownership. The firm delivers equity, fixed income, and alternative investments to institutions, intermediaries, high net worth individuals, and other charitable and non-profit organizations with the goal to provide positive impact, long-term value, and ‘social dividends’.
Trillium demonstrates its commitment to clients and community by serving as thought leaders and sharing decades of experience in responsible investing through the development and sponsorship of white papers and webinars to help investors better understand the ESG investment universe and how to implement a values-based investment program.
We believe that a company’s commitment to implementing ESG principles create a distinct competitive advantage and builds long-term value. Trillium’s investment processes use a proprietary ESG scoring methodology to identify compelling investment opportunities that meet our ESG requirements. The firm’s dedicated shareholder advocacy team is at the intersection of investment management and impact, engaging with companies to align values with investment objectives.
* Effective 6/30/22, the Trillium All Cap Core and Trillium Fossil Fuel Free Core strategies merged and were renamed Trillium ESG Core Equity.
Trillium’s investment processes are focused on finding companies with strong growth prospects that are attractively priced and meet our ESG criteria/requirements. Our analysts and Portfolio managers conduct bottom-up, fundamental research on the companies, simultaneously reviewing both traditional financial and ESG metrics that we believe can add value to each strategies’ investment process.
For over 40 years, Trillium has exercised its rights and powers as a shareholder to improve the ESG policies, practices and—most importantly—impacts of the companies held in our portfolios.
As investors and fiduciaries to our clients, we believe it is our responsibility to encourage the companies we invest in to do better, to be more sustainable, and to be more just. We pursue this work not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but also because we believe it contributes to a company’s long-term performance.
Trillium Asset Management offers investment strategies and services that advance humankind towards a global sustainable economy, a just society, and a better world. For nearly 40 years, the firm has been at the forefront of ESG thought leadership and draws from decades of experience focused exclusively on responsible investing. Devoted to aligning stakeholders’ values and objectives, Trillium combines impactful investment solutions with active ownership. The firm delivers equity, fixed income, and alternative investments to institutions, intermediaries, high net worth individuals, and other charitable and non-profit organizations with the goal to provide positive impact, long-term value, and ‘social dividends’.
Trillium demonstrates its commitment to clients and community by serving as thought leaders and sharing decades of experience in responsible investing through the development and sponsorship of white papers and webinars to help investors better understand the ESG investment universe and how to implement a values-based investment program.
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Cheryl I. Smith, Ph.D., CFA
Member | Trillium US Board
Economist, Portfolio Manager
Cheryl Smith is an Economist and Portfolio Manager. She leads the fixed income management process, is Lead Portfolio Manager on Trillium’s ESG Large Cap Core Strategy, and a Portfolio Manager on Trillium's ESG Core Equity strategy. Cheryl also serves as co-manager of the Green Century Balanced Fund, for which Trillium is the sub-advisor. She began her investment management career at Trillium in 1987. In 1992 she joined Boston Trust & Investment Management Company (now known as Walden Asset Management) as Vice President and Portfolio Manager, before rejoining Trillium in the fall of 1997.
Cheryl has served on the Boards of Oikocredit USA, Cornerstone Capital Group, Episcopal Divinity School, and on the Steering Committee for the Institute for Responsible Investment. Cheryl also served as chair of US SIF and was a member of its Policy Committee.
She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute and the American Economic Association. Cheryl holds a B.S.F.S. degree from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and earned M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Yale University.
*The Trillium Advisory Board is an independent body created for the purpose of advising the Trillium Asset Management, LLC Board on matters concerning the fulfillment of the mission of Trillium Asset Management, LLC in terms of the continuity of its internal mission and the Trillium Asset Management’s leadership in the broader sustainability and ESG communities.
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