Thought leadership

The blue economy is no longer an abyss of unknown value, argues WWF’s Margaret Kuhlow. It is clear from the numbers that healthy investment portfolios need healthy oceans - and they must be prioritised in the race to zero

Investors should manage climate-related risk using scenario analysis, and those who want to also contribute to solutions should do this through active ownership, working with governments and proactively engaging in blended finance

Nici Audhlam-Gardiner, Chief Commercial Officer of One Family discusses how the fund's internal investment team partnered with SSGA to develop a range of climate-proofed retail funds.

Tom Steffen discusses new research on the impact of carbon pricing on resource-heavy firms, compared with their more efficient peers

Economic models need to adjust after the IPCC’s stark warning, argues Rick Stathers

IFoA warns of growing risk of climate litigation in a ‘call to action’ to defined contribution schemes and advisors

New research by Generation Investment Management suggests listed companies are responsible for 40% of emissions, explain Miguel Nogales and Mark Ferguson

With World Mental Health Day coming up this weekend, Alberto Monzonis argues that Covid has pushed mental health up the investor agenda, and the data suggests it should stay there

Deploying pension scheme capital to fund sustainable, creative and investable social care innovations for older people may be part of the solution.

Does the EU Taxonomy have the power to trigger a green asset bubble and starve carbon-intensive industries of capital? Eurosif’s Victor van Hoorn is sceptical