OUR FIRM
SUPPORTING EXCELLENCE IN ESG, SUSTAINABILITY, AND IMPACT BY BRINGING INTELLIGENCE, CHALLENGE, AND INSPIRATION TO OUR CLIENTS AND STAKEHOLDERS
Accelerating the positive impact and sustainability of real assets through strategic and place-based advice, client learning and leadership development.
Our global economy and capital markets face existential threats of their own making.
The climate, biodiversity and social inequality emergencies are all symptoms of unsustainable business and investment practices.
These now pose profound corporate and fiduciary risks – as well as compelling opportunities – to individual market participants, and to the financial system overall.
Transformational change is both a systemic and commercial imperative.
OUR MISSION is to accelerate the positive impact and sustainability of real assets through strategic and place-based advice, client learning and leadership development.
OUR APPROACH is to deliver excellence in sustainability and impact strategy across the real asset value chain, by bringing decision-useful information and insights, intellectual rigour, challenge and teaching to our clients.
CLIENTS
OUR VALUES
What we do is important. How we do it counts for just as much.
Our values capture the spirit of Hillbreak.
Anyone who works with us – as client, team member or partner – can expect these values to shine through everything we do.
No exceptions.
Ten values sounds like a lot but we want to capture the full extent of what we stand for and what we aspire to bring to our work and our relationships.
Purposeful
Our firm exists for a reason; we have a clear mission and that drives what we do. We’re focused on, proud of and known for our impact.
Thoughtful
We don’t do commodities or ‘churn stuff out’. We think about the right approach and outcomes for every client, recognising that each is unique.
Challenging
We tell clients and stakeholders what they need to hear, not just what they want to hear. We’re not afraid to challenge, and we expect the same in return.
Precise
We don’t believe in ‘good enough’. We go the extra mile to make our work as good as it can be so that our clients receive and benefit from the very best support and advice.
Authentic
We engage with personality. We are trusted to do so on behalf of our clients too, acting as a broker of conversation and collaboration with their key stakeholders.
Commercial
We understand and speak the language of investment and asset management, always putting our work firmly in the fiduciary and corporate context.
Curious
We bring an objective, critical eye to clients’ work and the wider industry, helping drive better standards of sustainable and impact investment.
Strategic
Our focus is strategic and spans the full spectrum of ESG factors. We help our clients make sense of complexity and interconnectedness.
Independent
We won’t compromise on integrity. Our independence is central to us upholding the highest standards of honesty and objectivity.
Empathetic
Our impact extends beyond our advice and the knowledge we impart. We want everyone who works with us to feel understood, respected and empowered.
Holding ourselves to account
Values are easy to put on paper but they are more than just words. They should be evident in what and how we go about everything we do.
The real test is whether our stakeholders feel we’re living up to them.
In 2023 we asked our clients, team members and partners to give us their opinion on how we live up to our ideals.
4.5 out of 5
PURPOSEFUL
4.5 out of 5
CHALLENGING
4.6 out of 5
AUTHENTIC
4.7 out of 5
CURIOUS
4.5 out of 5
INDEPENDENT
4.6 out of 5
THOUGHTFUL
4.4 out of 5
PRECISE
4.6 out of 5
COMMERCIAL
4.6 out of 5
STRATEGIC
4.5 out of 5
EMPATHETIC
Net promoter score
We were humbled and proud to receive such supportive and encouraging feedback and we’re grateful to all those who took the time to respond.
This culminated in a highly positive Net Promoter Score from our clients, which is reflective of the referrals we receive from one to another.
What do we do?
We support organisations, team, and individuals working in both public and private markets, across the asset classes, to understand and respond positively and effectively to the ESG, sustainability and impact agendas.
We do this through a unique blend of strategic advisory, supervisory support, place-based advice, leadership and client learning services: providing advice, strategic direction and independent challenge, developing knowledge and skills, and building capacity.
We work extensively with Boards, Executive and Investment Committees, fund and asset management teams and those in a wide range of leadership and specialist roles. We train, mentor and coach to enhance competency and confidence, helping those in our industry at all stages of their career to increase their impact through knowledge, personal resilience and leadership effectiveness on ESG.
We are proud to work with many of the world’s preeminent capital allocators, managers, developers, operators, industry bodies and vendors in connecting responsibility, sustainability and impact across the real asset value chain.
STRATEGIC ADVICE
Advising clients across the investment value chain including pension funds, insurers and banks, investment managers, and the investee organisations receiving and using capital.
PLACE ADVISORY
Working with developers, institutional investors and asset managers to deliver place-based research and analysis, develop place-focused strategy, plan and guide implementation, and measure and report on impact.
LEARNING & LEADERSHIP
Supporting boards, executive and investment committees, fund and asset management teams, RI & sustainability professionals and those working in other specialist roles through training, mentorship and coaching.
