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Benjamin was most recently at The Co-operative Asset Management (TCAM) in the UK, where he led integration of environmental and social analysis into the investment and engagement processes. TCAM, a signatory to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), has £18.7bn (€22bn) in assets under management. The Co-operative Bank was named the world’s most sustainable bank at the Financial Times’ Sustainable Business Awards 2010.
During his time at The Co-operative Benjamin was the lead author of the Good Companies Guides, published in The Observer, which focused on issues such as gender balance and how sustainability affects business. He has been involved with several collaborative engagements through the PRI and sat as a steering group member on the Forest Footprint Disclosure project.
Benjamin’s previous career as a fund manager included time as a small cap pension fund manager at Framlington, now AXA Framlington, also a PRI signatory, where he managed £100m of small cap UK pension money and significantly outperformed the benchmark. He also co-managed a global technology fund covering IT and healthcare research. Benjamin brings to Responsible Research experience in the social economy from his time at Clearly So, a platform for social business, and has been Head of Research at Fair Pensions UK.
Benjamin is an Associate of the CFA Society of the UK. He graduated with joint honours in Maths and Philosophy from University College, Oxford.
He will be based in Singapore, heading a team of eight analysts and reporting to Lucy Carmody, Executive Director. His role begins on March 14th.
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Benjamin McCarron to join Responsible Research as Head of Research
Benjamin McCarron is to join Responsible Research, the leading provider of quality independent Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) research in
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