Latest responsible investment thinking

  • The investment case for nature

    17 May 2022

    The impact of economic activity on the natural world has long been ignored. However, governments, companies and investors can all play a role in helping to protect nature.

  • Levelling up: Investing towards a new social contract

    17 May 2022

    As we learn to live with COVID-19, focus is returning to delivering a just transition. This is important to secure long-term investment outcomes, but also presents direct opportunities.

  • Life force: Why nature matters

    12 May 2022

    Growing awareness that natural systems are stressed or even close to breakdown is prompting asset managers to look closely at nature-based risks and investee companies to understand their environmental impacts and dependencies.

  • Why investors must act now on the biodiversity crisis

    26 Apr. 2022

    The concepts of biodiversity and ‘natural capital’ have been largely ignored by business and finance until recently. Investors are now starting to take the issue seriously and build it into their thinking.

  • The challenge of delivering net zero

    11 Apr. 2022

    Financial services businesses have begun the complex businesses of working out how to deliver on their net-zero ambitions and play their part in tackling climate change.

  • Facing up to the ESG backlash

    6 Apr. 2022

    Asset managers must better explain how ESG can improve investment returns and make the world a better place. Clear guidance to help investors choose between funds is also required.

  • Back to nature: Why we must act now on the biodiversity crisis

    31 Mar. 2022

    In an age of mass extinctions, policymakers, businesses and financial institutions are beginning to acknowledge the risks associated with biodiversity loss, along with the opportunities that arise from nature-positive solutions.

  • Power to the people: The moral and investment case for human rights

    30 Mar. 2022

    Healthy and happy employees, consumers, and communities are all critical ingredients in a company’s long-term success. Investors have a key responsibility in ensuring the rights of these groups are respected.

  • Now for the hard part…..The challenge of delivering net zero

    29 Mar. 2022

    More than one fifth of the world’s largest listed companies have committed to net-zero targets, but few have detailed roadmaps to get there. Mirza Baig considers the challenges for investors managing transition pathways.

  • Change diets, not the planet: The link between food and sustainability

    29 Mar. 2022

    We explore how shifting diets can help create a more sustainable world.

  • Tough gig: How to improve the platform economy

    28 Mar. 2022

    Companies operating in the gig economy have been subject to industrial action and legal challenges. Workers say they are being denied basic rights; platforms reply this is the price of flexibility. But there is a viable middle-ground which can be beneficial for all, including investors.

  • Energy in focus: Part 2: The pivot to green

    28 Mar. 2022

    How will the surge in the prices of oil, gas and coal impact the transition to low or zero carbon sources of fuel? In the second part of our Q&A on the energy sector, experts from our credit, equities and ESG teams contemplate the challenges and opportunities in the pivot to green.

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