Toronto-based Mackenzie Investments and Winnipeg-based Investors Group – through its division I.G. Investment Management – are now signatories to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

The PRI is a set of six aspirational principles that offer a framework for integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into the investment analysis and decision-making process for mainstream investment managers.

In becoming signatories, Mackenzie and Investors Group are now in the company of global investment managers representing more than US$45 trillion in assets under administration by the end of April 2014.