Mixed progress across DEI and climate, while impact investors struggle to get to grips with nature risks.   Impact-focused fund managers across asset classes are making positive headway on their contributions to core sustainability themes, according to UK-based impact investor Snowball.  Snowball works and invests with other fund managers to deliver its impact investment strategy. It has published the latest iteration…

Just one in three asset and wealth management firms consider themselves “good innovators” despite the need to adapt to shifting regulatory regimes, liquidity pressures and AI adoption, according to Alpha Financial Markets Consulting’s Asset & Wealth Management Outlook report for 2025. The report, which highlights the key trends and challenges facing asset & wealth management firms, found the four most…

Human rights experts have condemned the “deeply disappointing” decision to postpone the implementation of corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements – known as the ‘stop-the-clock’ proposal. The proposal aims to delay reporting timelines for the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) by two years and grant a one-year extension for the transposition and application of the Corporate Sustainability Due…

Jupiter Asset Management has told shareholders it is closing its Global Ecology Growth fund as part of the drive to cull smaller sub-scale funds, with assets under management falling to just €17.3m as of March 2025. Launched in 2001, the SFDR Article 9 fund invested in equities focused on making a positive impact towards environmental and sustainable objectives. The fund…

Since Donald Trump was re-elected as US president, commentary around sustainable investing has been increasingly negative as the president promised to “drill, baby, drill” and exit the Paris Agreement. However, Parmenion’s senior investment manager Mollie Thornton says Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act will likely survive and there is plenty to be optimistic about. There has been a lot of negative sentiment…

Since Donald Trump was re-elected as US president, commentary around sustainable investing has been increasingly negative as the president promised to “drill, baby, drill” and exit the Paris Agreement. However, Parmenion’s senior investment manager Mollie Thornton says Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act will likely survive and there is plenty to be optimistic about. There has been a lot of negative sentiment…