The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that Montreal-based fixed-income money manager AlphaFixe Capital is launching a new type of investment fund that will buy bonds from corporate and government issuers with stronger reconciliation performance relative to their peers. The Globe's Jameson Berkow writes that could include issuers with higher Indigenous equity, labour or board representation, as an example. The company has spent nearly three years developing what it considers to be a first-of-its-kind investment product. Alongside an indigenous advisory committee, it co-created a new kind of scoring methodology to rank issuers. The system is conceptually similar to the process long employed by sustainability-focused investors to assess environmental, social and governance performance. AlphaFixe assembled a six-member indigenous advisory committee about a year ago to work with its team and provide continuing advice and guidance to the fund after it launches. "They were building a pretty lovely ecosystem of indigenousled expertise," said Amanda Calla, director of indigenous relations at Sun Life Financial and a member of the committee. Her ancestral name, as part of the Squamish Nation, is Tsékwiya.