Socially responsible investing

Local impact with term deposits

Put your money behind the business and organizations that shape our neighbourhoods.

Global impact with mutual funds

Invest in companies that take action to protect the world from climate change and inequality.

Make money, do good

Like regular mutual funds^*, our SRIs also invest in well-known, and lesser-known, companies to make you a financial return. The difference is:

• Quality companies only
  Investments must pass the screening for good environmental, social and corporate governance practices known as the ESG framework.
• Supporting sustainable development
  SRIs don’t invest in six industries considered harmful while choosing companies that pursue the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations..

Challenge the giants

Your dollars give our portfolio managers a literal seat at the tables of the multinational corporations that you invest in. So, we show up to make your voices heard.

• Calling on Disney to change working conditions at factories
• Working with Costco and Loblaws to reduce food waste
• Urging banks to pay a living wage

Our portfolio managers at Vancity Investment Management manage the IA Claringon Enhance SRI Funds and VCIM pooled funds.

Do good and make guaranteed returns with term deposits. Vancity’s term deposits don’t sit in a vault, they uniquely go to financing our local communities.

• We take chances that no one else will
  Maybe you’ve noticed, some members are social and environmental challengers that don’t fit in the boxes of traditional banks or lenders. Your deposits make their initiatives and our impact investing mandate possible.
• Local money to local people
  Invested deposits fund the mortgages of your neighbours and loans to local businesses. Not into the pockets of a stranger across the ocean.