Background on the SinCo way of designing and building sustainable investment architecture.
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HARD ANSWERS TO TOUGH QUESTIONS
SinCo delivers original thinking on sustainable investment that makes our clients better at what they do.
SinCo –
the sustainable investment consultants - is a boutique investment
advisory firm specializing in sustainable investment architecture in
frontier and emerging markets. SinCo
makes believers out of our clients, and the results are rewarding - on a
number of levels. What sets our success as a sustainable investment
brand apart can be reduced to one
fundamental value: ambition. Ambition to deliver designs and development
that present benefits beyond even what our clients are expecting.DESIGN ARCHITECTURE, MANAGE THE BUILDER
SinCo
uses an architectural approach to map current and future desired states
against resources available with which to build. Whether explicit or implicit, we aim to integrate sustainability
themes for our client investment decisions around the world, and
especially in emerging markets. Over
the past five years we have developed our 4M framework and 7P Model
process to integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG)
factors into investment architecture for our clients.
UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION, MAP NEW ANSWERS
SinCo applies the design approach of design, build, test, re-design to understand client problems, inform the development of the sustainable investment case, map new approaches to sustainable investment, and develop answers for client action. The SinCo role is to help investors decide what sustainability themes to plan for and how to build them into their investment approach and monitor its execution over asset classes, investee entities and regions.
SMALL FIRM, BIG IMPACT
FastCompany asked: "What sets small firms apart from the pack? They think big". Thinking big means being so ambitious about what SinCo wants for its clients to become, that we refuse to settle for anything less than “world class,” both in terms of what the investment models look like from idea to execution, as well as the quality of the work from our creative collaborators. SinCo does not allow our thinking to be defined by perceived limitations. “The client will never buy that” is not a phrase you hear spoken in our studio. We will try to elevate each project and get our clients to see its potential - both in terms of the project’s impact on their investment thinking and performance returns, as well as its systemic, aesthetic and even internal (morale-building) possibilities. SinCo is able to deliver a consultant to your fund anywhere around
the world, but we prefer to reduce the carbon footprint of logistics
wherever practical. Remote and virtual project management is advanced
wherever practical, leveraging client culture and infrastructures such
as e-offices and video-conferencing. We
are independent. Our lean operation allows us to be the specialist that
an investor seeks to call in quickly and discreetly. For larger
projects we will pull in partners to handle key sections ranging from
legal to technical to software skills, just as an architect of the built
environment does.
When describing the NBA phenomenon of former Harvard basketball player Jeremy Lin bursting on the scene in 2012, Doug Scott, CEO of Ogilvy Entertainment, said: "They say in the world of gems, the more facets the greater the design.” SinCo offers perspectives other sustainability practitioners acannot offer because of our experience along the investment value chain, and our original thinking borne from work in frontier and emerging markets. As a
natural collaborator across continents, we are adept at nurturing and
cultivating investment ideas, sustainability concepts, and creative
personalities over the years. We also have the reputation for being
fierce in our willingness to edit and crop the work to achieve the
impact we are after for our clients.
MAPPING THE 4M FRAMEWORK
SinCo typically
begins each engagement by conducting a review of the strategy in place
to identify gaps and underlying principles. Depending on the type of
project, we will deliver some aspect of the answer based on our mapping
of the 4M Framework: management, manufacturing, marketing, and matrix of
stakeholders.
> See SinCo FRAMEWORKS AND METHODS
APPLYING THE 7P MODEL
ln
our Research & Design Projects, we
accomplish this remodeling using the proprietary SinCo 7P Model process
to integrating environmental, social and governance [ESG] factors into
investment architecture for our clients. The SinCo 7P Model provides a
synopsis of the current investment architecture and a gap analysis,
mapping the effort and timeframe to rolling out an ESG component to
investment analysis and portfolio management.
> See SinCo FRAMEWORKS AND METHODS
NO MORE MEETINGS Meetings.
They hold such promise for moving your business forward but are rarely
executed well. We all know what we're supposed to do to run meetings
effectively, but we seldom do them. Why? Perhaps we think it's just not
worth the time to clarify what we hope to accomplish, craft an agenda,
handpick participants, issue pre-work, and send out notes with key
decisions and next steps. But meeting preparation and follow-up is time
well spent. At SinCo we say NO! to meetings, but always say yes to
moving the project or business forward by following key protocols.
Working with SinCo, we know you'll appreciate the difference, and get
some of the hours in your day back.
> See ABOUT US
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"“Graham was a pleasure to work with and a real asset to our company. I
have tremendous respect for his initiative, dedication, and knowledge
base. Graham's work ethic and general enthusiasm are contagious.” - Index Manager, leading ESG index provider, Boston USA
"“Graham is a fine individual who carries contagious level of energy and
enthusiasm. He has a very professional approach to work and great
commitment to the integration of environmental, social and governance
factors into mainstream business. This combination of high energy and
professionalism, I believe, will lead Graham to success in whichever
endeavour he sets his eyes on." United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Project Manager, Geneva Switzerland.
“While leading the PRI in Emerging Markets Project, besides
demonstrating excellent knowledge of Responsible Investment practices,
Graham showed great skills as a facilitator to promote RI amongst
emerging market stakeholders.” - Sustainability Advisor, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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