Independent Sustainable and Ethical investment resources

For financial advisers and financial services professionals:

This site, as well as our sister site, sriServices, offers an extensive range of SRI and ethical investment support information for the financial advisory community .

Some key page links to resources on this site are:

• Fund EcoMarket Adviser Downloads page
• Our ‘In the media’ area
• Also see our blog pages for recent developments (use tags for subjects)
• SRI Services YouTube channel

Recent UK  (and related) regulatory developments 

• Tom Gosling ‘Investing for Good‘ blog March 2021
• UK Green Horizons ambitions overview.  UK Govt announces green bond for 2021. UK Govt commits to mandate TCFD by 2025, PRA to start climate stress tests June 2021. “On the road to Glasgow, we will focus on the three Rs – reporting, risk management and return – to help unlock the private financial flows that are vital to the transition,” said Carney. (November 2020)
• Investment Market review – Investment Association annual review
• Follow COP26 progress here – rescheduled to 1-12 November 2021 (Glasgow)
• UK government adopts CCC recommendation of ‘net zero carbon emissions by 2050’ (June 2019)
• New DWP pension trustees rules require schemes to say how they take ESG issues & climate change into account in SIP – plus how they undertake stewardship & consider additional ‘non financial matters’ (October 2019)
• ‘External’ Finance industry link and events of  note (including ‘archive’ links)
• Climate Change – Carbon Tracker Initiative
• ESMA issue technical advice to the European Commission on integrating sustainability risks and factors in MiFID II (April 2019)
• UK launches Green Finance Strategy & GFI announces plans to collaborate with UKSIF (July 2019)
• FCA & PRA form Climate Financial Risk Forum (March 2019)
• Bank of England climate change resource area here
• Pension Actuaries Climate Risk warning letter

International  & EU legislation, regulation, reports and norms 

• TCFD (Taskforce for Climate Related Financial Disclosure) recommendations
• EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy (June 2019)
• ESMA Final Report on integrating sustainability risks and factors into MiFID ii (May 2019)
• GSIA (Global Sustainable Investment Alliance) biennial Global Market Report 2018 (published April 2019)
• EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan (March 2018.  Formal EU response to HLEG/TEG report.) Further info here.
• Article 173 (French energy transition law)
• EU HLEG Sustainable Finance report (Jan 2018)
• UN Global Compact – principles
• UN Sustainable Development Goals
• EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan March 2018
• GSIA market report 2016
• Paris Climate Agreement reached to hold global temperature increases within 1.5-2 degrees C range (December 2015)

• Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England  ‘A New Horizon’ speech 21/3/2019)
• Al Gore at PRI in Person San Francisco 2018
• Resource and Environment Practical Guide for Pension Actuaries_2017
• Taskforce on Climate Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) – including link to Mark Carney’s ‘Breaking the tragedy of the horizons’ speech.
• Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) also see ClimateAction 100+
• Latest climate report

For information on fund performance see:

• Trustnet – for financial  & performance data
• interactive investor ethical fund list (launched September 2019)

Other useful information sources of information about ethical, social and environmental issues include:

• WWF ‘Our Planet Our Business’ video
• Mega Online (published by Pictet) for thought pieces on major issues and trends
• Salt magazine
• ‘Good With Money’
• Good Money Week ‘consumer’ research 2016
• Good Money Week ‘Women and Investment’ report 2018
• The Guardian –The climate crisis explained in 10 charts (19 September 2019)

Fund Manager ‘issues’ articles:

• Cyber security and responsible investment – from Sarasin & Partners (May 2017)

Information on pension options from external sources:

• NEST ethical pension option
• NEST responsible investment option
• The Pension Regulator – DC scheme governance guidance
•  Interim government response to Law Commission Report on Pensions and Social Investment Dec 2017
• ​Current pensions consultation

Information for charities

Guidance – CC14 and further links here

See www.sriServices.co.uk  for information on earlier developments