This edition of Quarterly ideas Exchange (“QiX”) includes: our sustainable investment report 2022, the Ukraine crisis and what it might mean for ESG, the UK stewardship code and our latest episode of PODfolio.
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We have built on last year’s report following our Net Zero Pledge as a leading sustainable investor, to now include our first progress update on Net Zero contributions.
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We are understandably being asked by investors what the implications might be for ESG and sustainable investing as a whole. Will this ultimately increase or reduce the focus on ESG in the future? We try to answer some of these questions.
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We have submitted our UK Stewardship Code report to the Financial Reporting Council to maintain our signatory status for 2022. We reflect on all of our Investment business activities – across research, fiduciary management and advisory – throughout 2021.
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There are many uses of crypto-currencies and crypto-tokens from wider access to banking facilities, ticketing, decentralised finance and more. What are the things to think about from an investment perspective?
