Talking with those interested in sustainable investing, you often hear the 81% statistic mentioned – the 81% of retail investors surveyed by the FCA that want their money to do some good as well as achieve a financial return. It’s an inspiring figure, encouraging us to bring actuality closer to aspiration. The Investment Association’s December 2024 statistics revealed currently around 13%…

Compass Insights has launched a platform designed to allow asset owners to coordinate their investments and stewardship efforts. The platform – called SaaS platform – centralises ESG data management and analysis, providing users with data that helps support decision-making, including fund monitoring, stewardship, and reporting. The firm suggests that streamlining these processes allows responsible investment teams to “amplify their voice…

Agreement on funding and monitoring is seen as a crucial catalyst for channelling private capital to Global Biodiversity Framework goals.   COP16 will resume in Rome this week with negotiators aware of the need to resolve last November’s impasse to stimulate the flow of private investment toward nature and biodiversity restoration.  Parties failed to reach quorum in Colombia last year on…

Industry experts highly concerned over anti-ESG actions, as investor-led report looks to galvanise pushback on infringed rights. Proposals from sustainability-focused shareholders are increasingly under pressure, as US policymakers and anti-ESG proponents accelerate efforts to erode their ability to hold companies to account. Rule changes announced by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this month are widely seen as…

City Hive has appointed Hargreaves Lansdown’s Emma Wall (pictured left) and Rathbones’ David Coombs (pictured right) as chairs of the ACT Stewardship Council and Global Leadership Council. City Hive launched the ACT standard of corporate culture in May 2022, aiming to provide professional investors with a framework to understand and progress cultural change in a standardised way. Wall, who is…