ESG investment solutions provider Impact Cubed has been chosen by Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) to support its integration of sustainability data into investment decision-making. The pension fund will leverage Impact Cubed’s ESG datasets, via data firm FactSet, which covers fund-level impact metrics, Sustainable Development Goal alignment scores, biodiversity and climate indicators, and sovereign-level ESG analytics. “Our approach to ESG data is based on modern portfolio theory and rooted in empirical sustainability research,” said Arleta Majoch, Chief Operating Officer at Impact Cubed. “We provide asset owners with tools that allow them to analyse sustainability factors with the same rigour as traditional investment factors – across all asset classes.” GPIF is the largest pension fund in the world, with ¥258.7 trillion (US$1.7 trillion) in assets. Last year, GPIF conducted research on further diversifying its asset mix to include illiquid assets such as forests, farmland, gold and bitcoin.
