With offices in Montreal, Toronto, Boston, and London (UK), Close Group Consulting (CGC) is an independent and boutique ESG advisory firm that works with asset managers, general partners, asset owners, and corporations to frame and address ESG factors for risk management and as a value-enhancing aspect of core business strategy. Leveraging our in-depth capital and financial markets experience, we work in partnership with our clients to design and implement tailored, asset class specific end-to-end ESG integration frameworks that advance ESG maturity using proprietary tools and methodologies. Our diverse senior management team is composed of professionals each with over 20 years of global capital markets experience across investment and risk management, strategy, fund raising, corporate finance, M&A, company law, and ESG. As a boutique, we take a high-touch, pragmatic approach and our senior professionals are directly engaged on each client project. Since inception in November 2017, CGC has worked with a wide range of clients and has implemented mandates for global investment managers with combined assets under management of over $1.8 trillion. In 2020, CGC launched the ESG Integration Maturity Assessment Tool or “MAT” to assist asset managers / GPs with assessing, scoring, and benchmarking their ESG integration practices against standardized industry best practices in a scalable technology-driven solution.