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New Tools for Creating Positive Impact in Your Company's 401(k)
1. New Tools for Creating Positive Impact in Your
Company’s 401(k)
2. Employee Engagement
via 401(k) plans
• 638,000 plans, worth $3.8 Trillion
• Participation: 87% (73 mm of 88 mm)
• Average employee saves = 6.8% of pay
• Employers match averages = 4.5% of pay
• Tool for investing for retirement tax deferred
• Tool for educating/engaging on
sustainability
3. 1st
In Country
Rhode Island Society of CPAs
Sustainable Value Committee
Robert Mancini, RISCPA President
Committee Members:
Michael Kraten, PhD., CPA Providence College Committee Chair
Joy Pettirossi-Poland, MS President Building Bridges Consulting,
Founder MVP Program, Committee Member, Business Liaison
Kevin Papa, CPA Piccerelli Gilstein Committee Member
Kenneth J. Sanginario, Corporate Value Metrics CPA, MST, MSF,
CMAP, CTP, CVA, ABV, CM&AA Committee Member
Michael Tousignant, CPA KLR Committee Member
Committee Consultants:
Mary Adams, Founder Smarter Companies, Principal Corporate Metrics Consultant to committee
Paul Herman, CEO HIP Investor, Principal Investment Consultant to committee
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4. Triple Bottom Line:
People Planet Profit
= Prosperity
Sustainable Business & Investment Models
Private Sector Business/CPA Firms
Joy Pettirossi-Poland, Founder & Consultant
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6. Using your 401(k) plan to:
Engage Employees
Increase Participation %
Contribution $ Rates
and Increase your Bottom Line
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401(k) MVP Assessment & Education
+ HIP Ratings for Sustainability & Impact
The MVP 401(k) Know What You Own
Education Program™
7. ESG Portfolio Education
Sustainable Investing Centers on Analyzing Both Financial
(Tangible) and Off-Balance Sheet (Intangibles) Assets
PROFIT DRIVEN
Financial Data:
Tangibles
• Earning Growth
• Price/Earnings
Ratio
• Return on Equity
• Operations
• Cash Flow
• Risk Management
PEOPLE DRIVEN
Human Eco Social
Data: Intangibles
• Management ~ Leadership
• Health ~ Wellness
• Wealth ~ Benefits, CEO Pay
Competitive, Stakeholders
• Earth ~ Carbon Efficiency
Natural Resource Intensity
• Equality ~ Culture, EE’s
• Trust ~ CSR/Brand
SASB ~ Materiality
Disclosures
Profit +
People +
Planet =
Prosperity
Get a baseline of your employees understanding of their 401(k) investments
and what is generating Value & Risk
Benefits the
Whole
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8. • High level of understanding of how
investments impact you personally
• Desire to do good with investing
• If I could see the impact of my 401(k)
investment choices quantified I would
contribute more to my plan
401(k) Participant Surveys
~ Baseline & Feedback
Yes 18%
No 62%
Maybe 20%
Yes 69%
No 13%
Maybe 17%
Yes 33%
No 36%
Maybe 31%
9. Profit People Plan
Are you interested
in growing
your bottom line?
Do you have
Millennial and GenX
employees aged
20 to 48 years?
Is your 401k Plan
struggling to meet its
testing requirements?
Are you wanting to
effectively increase
employee engagement?
Do you need
to attract and hire
new talent?
Do you want to
ensure your fiduciary
responsibility with your
401(k) plan?
Do you want to
increase your market
share and attract more
customers?
Do you need to blend
cultural differences and
harness value from the
cultural shifts
happening in today’s
businesses?
Do you want to
increase your 401(k)
plan contribution $ and
plan participation % ?
Do you want to
maximize your founder
contributions to your
401K plan for your own
retirement?
Is your younger
workforce not
interested in investing
in your 401k plan?
Are you looking for
strategies to enhance
plan performance and
mitigate future risk?
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Maximize the Benefits of offering a 401(k)
12. 401 (k) Employee Impact Allocation
You can make a difference with your investments
Your Goals:
Performance AND Impact; How YOU can be an IMPACT Investor
1. Your Investing GOALS (e.g. school, house, wedding, kids, retirement, parental care)
INVESTMENT GOAL: Use of Funds Amount $$$ By Year Yrs Away
$ 20__
$ 20__
$ 20__
HOW MUCH IMPACT AND HOW MUCH PROFIT? – 2X2 OF A PORTFOLIO
HEALTH WEALTH EARTH EQUALITY TRUST
Employee
Wellbeing
Scored for
Impact
Carbon/Natural
Resources
Diversity/Leadership
EE Engagement
Transparency/CSR
Sustainability Reports
___% ___% ___% ___% ___%
2. Your ASSET ALLOCATION: Investments Categorized for Risk-Return Potential
Very low risk;
Very low return
Low risk;
Low return
Medium risk;
Med. return
High risk;
High return
Very high risk;
Very high return
Preserve
principal safely
Generate
current income
Blend income
and growth
Seek long term
growth
Aggressively invest
and speculate
___% ___% ___% ___% ___%
CASH & CDs BONDS REAL ESTATE STOCKS NEW VENTURES
Your Investments:
You can pick your impact
and reward companies
by investing in the ones
that:
1. Are focused on
mitigating risk
2. Achieve strong CSR
(corporate social
responsibility),
striving to help solve
problems for society
3. Seek strong financial
performance at the
same time
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15. Who is EBS?
• Strategic Sustainability Consultants
to the Real Estate Industry
• Financially driven recommendations
• Mission Driven Organization
• Purpose maximizers as well as profit
maximizers
• Fast-growth oriented company
16. Why an Impact Rated 401(k)?
• Employee engagement
• Authenticity: align ALL business
practices with Mission & Vision
• Leadership: 1st
organization to do this
company-wide
• Transparency
23. 2015 Sustainability Initiatives & Outcomes
• Rooftop solar panels reduced electric costs by 60%
• Sustainable 401(k) plan to help employees invest smartly
– MVP Educated staff on future risk, performance drivers & impact
– HIP Rated 38 fund choices on net impact & future risk/return
– Discovered our top suppliers are in our 401(k)’s mutual funds
• Giving back to the community
– Fundraising for Hudson AMVET’s Home Alone program, and
– Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) of Worcester
27. 2015-2016 Sustainability Goals
• Enhance and improve 401(k) plan
– Increase participation %, contribution $, and employee
engagement using MVP + HIP 401(k) sustainability program
– Add, drop and re-align 401(k) funds
to include more sustainable and impact investing options
• Energy efficiency
– Voluntary reporting to CDP Carbon Disclosure Project
– Commitment to being completely LED in our facility by 2016
• Packaging
– Reduce and re-use packaging inbound and outbound
from suppliers and for customers
• Annual sustainability report for customers & suppliers
28. Commitment to our Customers
• Be the best supply chain partner in the
industry
• Continue to educate our employees to
invest sustainably – especially in our
customers in our 401(k) plan choices
• Host educational forums (i.e. CDP) on the
importance of sustainability to the bottom
line, to risk mitigation and to the planet
Because of your challenge – me taking the challenge and Bob supporting the work
This was the challenge HIP made from this slide –
I created a business model that identifies the 84% and calls out strategies to build and develop the 84% of intangibles and strategies that mitigate risk that comes from the intagibles like environmental carbon etc
We tracked with the HIP Book of Health wealth earth equality and trsus
The wealth metric was centeredt on developimng wealth for the employees and developing wealth for the business owners BUT ALSO DEVELOPING A STRATEGY FOR INCREASING EMPLOYEE ENAGAGEMENT
I’m Burke Pemberton, Partner, COO & Controller at Environmental Building Strategies. EBS is a Strategic Sustainability Consultancy to the Real Estate Industry. We work with everyone from Developers & Building Owners to Architects & Engineers to reduce operating expenses and increase the value of real property through the recommendation of sustainability measures. We’re involved in projects from the design phase all the way through construction, operation and eventual disposal. In addition to building science experts, my colleagues include experts in finance and economics. One of our key competitive differentiators is our ability to make sustainability recommendations based in the principals of real estate finance and economics.
We are also a mission driven organization. Our Purpose is to Boldly Catalyze an environmentally restorative and socially equitable world. We are purpose maximizers first, in addition to being profit maximizers. We believe that the two go hand-in-hand nicely. And a lot of other folks must agree, as EBS has experienced rapid growth that has landed us on the San Francisco business times list of the fastest growing companies in the Bay Area for 3 consecutive years and we are working with Fortune 5 firms to catalyze their corporate sustainability strategy.
So, I mentioned that EBS is a mission driven organization. And we were having the darndest time getting our team members engaged in their retirement savings. Why? Well, for starters my team, and the talent we work to attract, is comprised mostly of millennials that are not really thinking about retirement yet. And second, they spend the majority of their working lives creating an environmentally restorative and socially equitable world.
As the company’s 401(k) plan sponsor, I was asking them to take the money earned in this noble pursuit, turn around, and invest it in the very companies creating the toxic products that they work so hard to eradicate. There was no alignment, and, not surprisingly, no participation in the 401(k) plan. For those of you savvy to the tax benefits to LCC partners of using the 401(k) as a safe harbor, the lack of participation also led the plan to fail the Top Heavy test, and stole the tax benefits of the plan. Another real business consideration for increasing engagement.
Adopting the impact rated 401K allows for us to be more transparent with our clients about who we invest in and as a result challenges/pushes others to gain more transparency into their 401(k) investments.
As a small company, we relied on our payroll provider to administer our 401(k) plan, and, full disclosure, there was little thought put into it. So, when I realized that my colleagues were not going to invest in a traditional 401(k) plan, it was time for me to go to 401(k) university, where I learned about the intricate list of stakeholders involved in plan administration.
First, we needed an investment advisor that was willing to work within the bounds of their strictly enforced fiduciary duties to provide our team with investment advice geared towards socially responsible investing. After vetting several candidates we landed on a San Francisco based firm name Communitas Financial Advisors who was already working in the SRI space.
Next, we needed a record keeper to keep track of the investments. Communitas recommended a firm called Retirement Plan Consultants and they have been great and easy to work with.
Then, we needed a way to rate the sustainability impact of the funds in the plan to engage plan participants and educate them about the true impact performance of the holdings. That’s where HIP Investor’s impact ratings for 401(k) came in.
Finding the final stakeholder was the tricky part, because we needed a Third Party Administrator to make sure that Communitas and I, as the plan sponsor, were upholding our fiduciary duties and meeting government regulations as we tried to do something crazy called “mitigating long-term risk in our long-term financial investments.” The first Administrator we worked with limited Communitas’ ability to implement investment recommendations based off of HIP’s Impact Performance Ratings. So, we asked QBOX to act as a more flexible investment fiduciary administrator to allow us to incorporate the Impact rated investment funds into our plan.
So that was it, and the rest was in the results.
Let’s talk about the results.
By providing an Impact rated 401(k) plan to our team members, we have full engagement, and are now able to align all of our business practices with our mission and values. This also has the added benefit of creating a bullet proof recruiting message that allows us to attract and retain talented folks who are authentically passionate about everything we do at EBS.
Increased participation
Increased engagement
Better Talent Acquisition