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Celebrating Impax’s first 25 years

Explore some of our major milestones and our reflections on the opportunities that lie ahead
  • Impax Asset Management Group plc
  • Impax Asset Management LLC

    In 2018, Impax Asset Management Group plc acquired Pax World Management LLC which was subsequently renamed Impax Asset Management LLC.
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  • 2023 Pax World US mutual fund range becomes “Impax Funds”
  • 2022 Published first Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures report

    Opened New York office

    Launched Pax Scholarship Program in New Hampshire

    Became a signatory of the Race at Work Charter
  • 2021 Impax signs Net-Zero Asset Managers initiative and joins Natural Capital Investment Alliance

    Impax Sustainable Infrastructure strategy launched
  • 2020 Impax Ireland established

    Filed a petition for rulemaking with the SEC urging the agency to require public companies to disclose location data
  • 2019 Impax received World Economic Forum’s Circulars Investor Award

    SmartCarbonTM incorporated into Pax World Funds

    The World Bank partnered with Impax on bonds to highlight gender equality and women’s empowerment
  • 2018 Impax Asset Management Group Plc acquired Pax World Management LLC

    Impax Climate Strategy launched
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  • 2016 SmartCarbon research published

    Launch of third private equity fund
  • 2015 Impact methodology launched

    Global Opportunities strategy seeded
  • 2014 Portland (OR) office established
  • 2012 New York Metro office established
  • 2010 Launch of second private equity infrastructure fund
  • 2008 SEC registration

    UN PRI signatory
  • 2007 BNP Paribas Asset Management Holding became a shareholder

    Hong Kong team established

    Advisory relationship with Pax World Management LLC established

    Environmental Markets index series launched with FTSE
  • 2005 Launch of first private equity infrastructure fund
  • 2004 Launch of Impax Funds (Ireland) plc, a self-managed umbrella UCITS
  • 2002 First own-label listed equity fund launched: Impax Environmental Markets Plc
  • 2001 Floated on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and subsequently renamed Impax Asset Management Group Plc
  • 1999 First listed equity strategy launched with advisory contract for Alm. Brand Invest in Denmark
  • 1998 Impax Asset Management founded by Ian Simm with mandate from the International Finance Corporation (IFC)*
Impax Asset Management LLC
  • 2017 Filed a petition for rulemaking with the SEC urging the agency to require public companies to disclose gender pay ratios on an annual basis
  • 2016 Encouraged the Securities and Exchange Commission to take action on pay equity

    Began engaging with companies on gender pay equity
  • 2015 Financial Times listed CEO Joe Keefe as one of its “top feminist men”

    Impax Ellevate Global Women’s Leadership Fund received Wealth Management’s Industry Award
  • 2014 Launch of first gender-lens index and fund in the US — the Impax Global Women’s Leadership Index and the Impax Ellevate Global Women’s Leadership Fund
  • 2011 Launch of “Say NO to All-Male Boards” campaign

    Co-founded the Thirty Percent Coalition
  • 2010 “Gender Equality as an Investment Concept” published
  • 2008 Launch of first US fund focused on resource efficiency solutions
  • 2007 Began offering the first mutual fund in the United States focused on investing in companies that advance women
  • 1999 Launch of first high yield bond fund integrating ESG factors
  • 1971 Launch of first publicly available mutual fund in the United States to use social and financial criteria in the investment process — the Pax Fund (now called the Impax Sustainable Allocation Fund) — which helped give birth to the sustainable investment industry
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