UK retail sustainable fund changes: assessing the impact of SDR (mid year round up, 2025) If you have found your…

BSI published PAS 7342:2025 yesterday, a fast track standard for retail sustainable investment funds. The document describes what 'good' looks…

How many funds have SDR fund labels? March 2-25 update The UK’s SDR fund labelling regime aims to help people…

Some thoughts on whether or not the UK needs a Green Taxonomy Yesterday I submitted an - albeit rather rushed…

We are delighted to record that the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves November's Mansion House speech referenced sustainable finance,…

Regulating ESG ratings providers The information below is 'cut and pasted' from an email received from the Treasury on 15…

Well, its that time again! We are currently in the process of organising our annual 'SRI Services and Partners' Good…

The SDR (Sustainability Disclosure Requirements) consultation paper was, in my view, a big step in the right direction for the…

The following videos are from our 2022 'SRI Services and Partners Good Money Week' event. They are published in chronological…

A big thank you to our friends at Investment Life and Pensions Moneyfacts for publishing - and putting on the…

As you are reading this post you may well know that I have spent nearly 30 years working in sustainable,…

I am delighted to welcome the launch of the FCA's new 'ESG & sustainable investment principles' which I have been…

[Please see my more recent 'Principles' blog as the FCA Sustainable Investment Principles are now live.] As you will know,…

UKSIF Policy Vision On 28 April 2021 UKSIF launched its new 'policy vision' at an event convened to celebrate the…

During UKSIF's excellent 'Ownership Day' event today I was delighted to hear from their keynote speaker Mark Manning of the…

It is lovely to have contributed once again to 'Investment Life and Pensions Moneyfacts' editor Richard Eagling's annual SRI feature…

Introduction The EU has a raft of consultations ongoing aimed at driving  investment to be more focused on sustainability. I…

With the ethical and social aspects of coronavirus being plain to see and markets wobbling horribly we have started to…

Sustainable Finance Taxonomy  report 'Financing a Sustainable European Economy' Technical Report published 9 March 2020 On 9 March 2020 the…

BlackRock founder and CEO Larry Fink has been making headlines this week with the announcement on Tuesday (14/1/20) that BlackRock…

Recent media coverage, generated in part in response to a recent report by SCM*, indicates that greenwash fears are growing…

The FCA issued the following important and welcome statement and linked report this week  (16 October 2019).  This, in my…

  A growing number of funds are now marketed as being ‘sustainability themed’ or having sustainability related themes (often in…

The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (the international network of SIFs, that includes friends at UKSIF and Eurosif) has this week…

The Investment Association announced last week that it is to consult members on Sustainability and Responsible Investment. Their launch release is…

SRI Services submitted a response to the FCA's highly welcome consultation on Climate Change and Green Finance (DP18/8) last week.…

The timing may not be ideal, but it is none the less welcome that the EU (ESMA) is consulting on…

As mentioned in my blog in October last year the FCA is consulting on climate change and green finance. SRI…

I am delighted to announce that you can now access the ‘Sustainability & Suitability’  Good Money Week  event videos on…

The Bank of England has taken a leadership position on climate change for a number of years. Governor Mark Carney’s ‘Tragedy…

The Green Finance Sculpture project is an exciting new initiative, launched at a Lifetime Achievement event for the late Tessa Tennant in June…

I am running rather late with blogs at the moment as there is so much happening - but felt it…

EU proposals to include ESG as part of investment and advice processes. 20 June 2018 Update: ===== On 24 May 2018 the…

Yesterday was a big day for those of us who care about how investment and financial services impact the world…

The Green Finance Taskforce published a highly significant (100 page) report on 28 March 2018. The report, which aims to help accelerate 'green…

On 8 March 2018 the EU published its response to the Sustainable Finance HLEG (High Level Expert Group) report issued in…

We will be working with the Tranparency Task Force on the topic of asking the FCA to mandate ‘ethical/SRI/ESG’ fact finding. (Or more…

National Ethical Investment Week 2011 dates announced 16-22 October 2011 Green and ethical investing aims to allow you to make…