Generation Investment Management LLP is financial services and investment management firm founded in 2004. It was co-founded by former US Vice President Al Gore and Goldman Sachs' Asset Management head David Blood, with a stated emphasis on sustainable investment options for their mutual funds and other investments. Generation has offices in both London and San Francisco and employs 87 people. Generation Investment Management LLP is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK. The firm's advisory board, chaired by Gore, meets twice a year. The board consists of business leaders, industry experts, and other luminaries. The board helps establish a macro framework of trends and ideas. 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. The firm began investing client money in April 2005. Its breakthrough was integrating the disciplines of finance and sustainability. The firm places environmental and social factors at the core of its strategy. Later in 2005, Generation helped to establish the Enhanced Analytics Initiative to support sell-side research into long-term sustainability risks and opportunities and one of the founding partners joined the initial working group responsible for bringing the UNPRI to life. In November 2007, Generation and Kleiner Perkins announced a global collaboration to "find, fund and accelerate green business, technology and policy solutions with the greatest potential to help solve the current climate crisis." As part of the collaboration, prominent Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr joined Generation's Advisory Board. In this year, Generation also attended the Bellagio Summit, where the term 'Impact Investment' is coined. In 2014, Generation launched Climate Solutions Fund II and the foundation partnered with George Serafeim. In 2015, Generation launched the Sustainability Insights Series, releasing "Environmental Intelligence" and "The Power Industry in Transition." In the same year, Generation became a Certified B Corp.
