Blaine Townsend, CIMC®, CIMA®

Blaine serves as an Executive Vice President and the Director of Bailard’s Sustainable, Responsible and Impact Investing (SRII) group. He is also a portfolio manager of Bailard’s Smart SRI US All Cap, Broad Impact and Small Cap Value strategies. Blaine is on both Bailard’s fundamental and SRII investment committees, conducts social research, oversees corporate engagement efforts and maintains client relationships.

Blaine began researching and writing about corporate social responsibility in the late 1980s. He started his career in Socially Responsible Investing in 1991 at the Muir Investment Trust, the nation’s first environmentally screened bond fund. In 1996, he opened the California office for Trillium Asset Management, which he led for 13 years.

While at Trillium, Blaine managed socially responsible and sustainably focused portfolios, served on the firm’s investment committee and worked on corporate engagement efforts on a host of social and environmental issues from deforestation to media reform. Blaine joined Bailard in 2016.

Blaine serves as an Advisory Board member for The Journal of Impact and ESG Investing. He holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and CIMC® and CIMA® credentials. His writings and commentary on social investing have appeared in numerous publications, including Reuters, the San Francisco Chronicle, Fast Company, MarketWatch, Real Leaders, American Banker and the San Jose Mercury News.

Blaine is married and has three adult children.

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