Sylvia Solomon

Sylvia Solomon, ASIP, is Director of ESG and Business Development for Equitile Investments Ltd and serves as a CFA Society of the UK (CFA UK) Board Member. Sylvia has over 30 years of investment industry experience in both equities and sustainable investing. She spent 25 years managing a wide range of funds, including pensions, life funds, endowments, unit trusts and hedge funds at firms such as Baring Asset Management, Hermes Investment Management and Ennismore Fund Management. In her current role at Equitile Investments, Sylvia is a member of the Investment Committee and Chair of the Governance Committee. She co-manages two Global Equities Funds that fully integrate ESG analysis into the investment process at the research, evaluation, and portfolio construction stages.

In addition to her Board role at CFA UK, Sylvia is Chair of the CFA UK Examinations and Education Committee, a member of the CFA UK Sustainability Steering Committee and is a member of the CFA Institute’s ESG Advisory Panel. In her former role as Chair of the CFA UK Certificate in ESG Investing Panel, Sylvia was instrumental in leading practitioners in the design, development and launch of the Certificate in ESG Investing. Sylvia was also a member of the CFA UK Certificate in Climate and Investing (CCI) Panel, responsible for the first professional qualification of its kind in the UK, which delivers the knowledge and skills required by investment professionals to understand climate as it relates to investing, and how to integrate climate change considerations into the investment process. Sylvia also represents Equitile Investments as a member of the PRI Global Policy Reference Group,  which aims to inform and strengthen PRI’s and its signatories’ public policy engagement on responsible investment topics and is a member of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) Global Responsible Investment Committee, which guides AIMA’s responsible investment work in regulatory engagement, sound practice, and analysis.