Customers continue to express a strong interest in ESG issues, but ultimately financial return is their top priority, with one in five refusing to participate in sustainability if it jeopardises their return,...
Over the next three years Scottish Widows will invest betwen £20bn and £25bn in companies that are pro-actively tackling climate change. The pensions and investment company says this includes at least £1bn...
Bulk annuity providers are the latest financial services companies to be taking steps to improve their ESG procedures. Willis Towers Watson’s annual bulk annuity survey found of all eight providers had taken...
LifeSight master trust will invest almost $1bn (£734m) into a new climate transition index fund, which aims to rate individual companies on their ability to shift towards a low carbon economy. This fund...
All financial firms and FTSE-listed companies will be required to publish plans on how they plan to transition to net zero under proposed new rules from the Treasury. The plans, outlined at...
Aegon Asset Management has become the latest fund manager to sign up to the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative. Its parent company, Aegon NV has also signed up to the Net Zero...
UK pension schemes fund an estimated 330m tonnes of carbon emissions every year according to new research. This analysis, by the campaign group Make My Money Matter and research house Rote2, says...
Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has pointed the finger at defined benefit schemes for being behind the curve on climate transition. The asset managers says that the typical DB scheme is...
Cushon has launched a new investment strategy that has a 15 per cent allocation to private markets through Schroders, the biggest in the master trust sector, it says. The provider says its...
The government has today published its roadmap for ‘greening’ the financial services sector in the UK. Key to this is the introduction of new sustainability disclosure requirements, which will incorporate and expand...
