Accelerating change for a better tomorrow
Real change requires a radical overhaul of the world economy. As a firm committed to building a sustainable world, we structure our investment research, company engagement, and macro stewardship activities around three key pillars: People, Earth and Climate. These represent what we believe to be the biggest sustainability challenges in the world today, namely social inequality, biodiversity loss and climate change.
Our Sustainable Transition range targets opportunities linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals that support and accelerate the transition to a sustainable future towards a socially just, nature positive and net zero economy. We offer solutions across asset classes designed to deliver financial returns and a positive impact.
Earth
Investing in Natural Capital Transition to accelerate towards a nature positive economy
The risks associated with biodiversity loss and the erosion of nature are frequently overlooked by the market. This often results in the mispricing of companies with significant impacts or dependences on nature.
Transition strategies in focus
Strengths
Complex sustainability challenges cannot be addressed by investing in solutions opportunities alone. A broader transition approach is required to maximise long-term return and impact potential. Our leading approach to sustainable transition is applied consistently across asset classes and leverages the following key strengths:
Key risks
For further information on the risks and risk profiles of our strategies, please refer to the relevant KIID and Prospectus.
A globally integrated team with extensive experience

Rick Stathers
Senior GRI Analyst, Climate Specialist
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Eugenie Mathieu
Senior ESG Analyst & Earth Pillar Lead
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Vaidehee Sachdev
Impact Analyst - Social Pillar Lead
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Colin Purdie
Chief Investment Officer, Liquid Markets
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Daniel McHugh
Chief Investment Officer, Real Assets
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Alistair Way
Head of Equities
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Caroline Hedges
Head of Credit
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Darryl Murphy
Managing Director, Infrastructure
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The world is too interconnected to think small
Building a more sustainable future takes a wider, more meaningful, and joined-up approach.
It takes commitment and partnership across the interconnected challenges facing People, Climate, and Earth.

Making a difference through director accountability
9 Jun 2022
Tackling sustainable issues takes holding directors personally responsible for their company's sustainability failures.
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Making a difference with natural carbon removal
9 Jun 2022
Going down a more direct path to net zero takes investing in the power of natural solutions.
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Making a difference on antimicrobial resistance
9 Jun 2022
Supporting antibiotic development takes a powerful financial coalition lobbying for reform at the G7.
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Making a difference in the use of hazardous chemicals
9 Jun 2022
Reducing the damage caused by hazardous chemicals takes holding chemical companies to account through public rankings.
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Making a difference in corporate sustainable transition
9 Jun 2022
Moving towards a more sustainable world takes investing in companies transitioning towards more sustainable practices.
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Our responsible investment views

Equities
Global equity income Q&A: Richard Saldanha on the outlook for dividends and growth
3 Aug 2022
The lead manager of our Global Equity Income strategy discusses risks and opportunities for income-seeking investors in a turbulent time for markets.
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Real Assets
Long income, short ESG windows: Matching real estate long income and responsible investing timelines
2 Aug 2022
Luke Layfield looks at how real estate long income can help address clients’ ESG responsible investing objectives and how respective timelines for implementing change can be best aligned.
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Equities
The AIQ Podcast: Taking stock of nature risk
15 Jul 2022
The idea that human actions are bringing natural systems close to breakdown, threatening livelihoods and financial stability, is making asset managers think harder about nature risk and the environmental dependencies in investee companies.
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Responsible Investing
Investing in a just transition to net zero: A Q&A with Nick Robins
30 Jun 2022
Reaching net zero by 2050 will require significant injections of capital. But it is also an opportunity to rethink social relationships, as Professor Nick Robins explains.
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Equities
Supply chains, painkillers and gene editing: ESG risks in pharma
29 Jun 2022
Reflecting on ESG risks in the pharmaceutical industry, Sora Utzinger discusses supply chains and counterfeit medicines, access to painkillers, and the ethics of gene editing.
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Responsible Investing
What does the data say? Biodiversity loss: From horror to hope
24 Jun 2022
In this month’s instalment of our visual series on topical themes, we explore the world of biodiversity.
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Responsible Investing
ESG investing: Lasting lessons from Russia’s war on Ukraine
23 Jun 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to ESG receiving widespread flak. While much of the criticism is unjustified, the episode underlines how many issues related to ESG are complex and involve trade-offs. Investment approaches may need fine tuning, especially if the geopolitical landscape continues to change so rapidly.
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Responsible Investing
Levelling up for a new social contract
21 Jun 2022
The global financial crisis of 2007 and the COVID-19 pandemic widened social inequalities, with vulnerable communities hit the hardest. Governments, investors and companies all have a duty to address the issue.
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Responsible Investing
Antimicrobial resistance: Q&A with Dame Sally Davies
10 Jun 2022
Resistance to antibiotics is already killing millions. Professor Dame Sally Davies, UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance, spoke to AIQ on the latest developments to counter antimicrobial resistance Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in the UK and globally.
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Responsible Investing
The AIQ Podcast: Investing towards a new social contract
9 Jun 2022
As life returns to some form of normality, governments are free to move their focus from COVID-19 to left-behind communities and delivering a just transition. This is important to secure long-term economic outcomes, but also comes with investment opportunities and risks.
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Responsible Investing
Deep water: Ten threats to marine ecosystems
8 Jun 2022
Our air, weather, food, the health of diverse marine life and millions of jobs all depend on the ocean. But we have not done well as custodians of marine ecosystems. Here, we set out ten ways where human actions threaten the health of an essential environment.
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Responsible Investing
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.
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AIQ Feature
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.
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Equities
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.
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Equities
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.
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Responsible Investing
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.
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