the sustainable, responsible and ethical investment information hub
June 18th, 2018
This morning, 18 June 2018, the Government published its final response to the 2017 Law Commission report on pension funds and social investment. The following information was published today by UKSIF (whilst I was working on our MiFID2 response*!):
This is hugely significant news which is likely to provide a huge boost for responsible investors in the UK. It represents a big win for UKSIF, our members and everyone in the responsible investment sector who has been campaigning on this issue over the past five years and longer.”
I would like to thank UKSIF for both its hard work in this area and also for circulating today’s update. This has been a major piece of work and indeed is a big win for our sector.
My involvement in this was earlier in the process and I am delighted that the linked PFS guide references our Fund EcoMarket tool (as did the earlier government report) – as I had a number of meetings with contributors to the government report.
Next stop (for those who are interested!) please respond to MiFID2 consultation by 21 June 2018, this is a further major ESG / SRI milestone!
*see previous blog.
London Climate Week event on 28 & 29 June I happily agreed to become involved with a major London Climate Week event run by Reset Connect some time ago. The event is now only two weeks away. I did so mostly because I am always keen to help and encourage intermediaries to learn about climate issues […]
Earlier this week I set out my initial response to HSBC’s head of Responsible Investment – Stuart Kirk’s – extraordinary presentation on climate risk (see blog linked below). In the interest of understanding different points of view – here is a collection of articles and opinions about his speech that we believe are relevant to […]
…and has now been rightly suspended by HSBC. There is so much to say on this story, but let me start by saying I have no desire to ‘bash’ HSBC. Big banks are imperfect and have, in my view, propped up the fossil fuel industry for far too long – but that is not what […]