Indigenous peoples and their economic, social and environmental well-being are relatively absent from the conversations in the Canadian Responsible Investment (RI) industry. Despite recent initiatives, few Canadian RI policies or reports of institutional investors make references to Indigenous Peoples. These are key findings from a research team at the Ivey Business School at Western University, having studied the practices of the investment industry for one-year through interviews with stakeholders, observation of industry conferences, and documentary evidence.
For a Q&A on key issues raised by the report with Mark Sevestre and Katherine Wheatley from the Reconciliation and Responsible Investment Initiative, please see this companion article.