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

‘External’ Finance industry link and events of  note (including ‘archive’ links):

Investment Market review – Investment Association annual review

Climate Change – Carbon Tracker Initiative

Recent UK  (and related) regulatory developments 

• 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)
• 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 

• EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities (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 https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf

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
• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/20/the-climate-crisis-explained-in-10-charts

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: https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/consultation/cp19-15.pdf

Information for charities

Guidance – CC14 and further links here

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