Generation Investment Management (Generation IM) is a sustainable investment management firm founded in 2004; its co-founders included former US Vice President Al Gore and former Goldman Sachs' Asset Management head David Blood, along with five other founders, with a vision to see long-term sustainable investing become best practice and for sustainable capitalism to become the enduring economic model.
Generation operates four strategies, investing both public and private equity: Global Equity, Asia Equity, Growth Equity and Private Equity; alongside a climate-led investing business, Just Climate.
Generation has offices in London, San Francisco and São Paulo, and , employed over 100 people. Generation Investment Management LLP is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK.
Generation has built a global research platform to integrate sustainability research into fundamental equity analysis.
History Generation was founded in April 2004 by a group of seven founding partners led by Al Gore and David Blood. Its goal was integrating the disciplines of finance and sustainability.
In 2021 Generation launched Just Climate, a climate-led investment business aiming to address the net-zero challenge at scale. It closed its inaugural Climate Assets Fund I in 2023, raising $1.5 billion.
Partnerships Net Zero Asset Managers initiative The Climate Pledge Ceres The Alliance for Climate Protection (Repower America) World Resources Institute Natural Resources Defense Council The Climate Project
Investments Investments by Generation funds include: Octopus Energy Proterra
References
External links Generation Investment Management Profile from the Financial Times (requires log-in) For People and For Planet, a 3/28/06 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal by Al Gore and David Blood We Need Sustainable Capitalism, an 11/5/08 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal by Al Gore and David Blood When Principles Aid Performance, an article about the firm from the Financial Times, April 2007 Generation Announces Plans For New Investment Management Firm, the November 2004 press release SEC Regulatory Information and Disclosed Holdings Al Gore and David Blood interviewed by WIRED, April 2018