Krystle Higgins

The new framework, which will be published in full later this year, finds that no asset manager currently meets the highest climate stewardship standard

The Finance Transition Centre (FTC), a think tank founded by former Aviva Investors sustainability chief Steve Waygood, has called for the introduction

LAPFF and Sarasin defend investor demands for banks to better recognise climate-related risks in financial accounts

A £500,000 pilot fund is seeking to build the market intelligence, investment structure and evidence needed to scale child-lens investing beyond philanthropy, with ambitions to launch a £20m vehicle capable of attracting long-term institutional capital by 2027.

As LGPS reforms give pools greater power, local impact mandates could be squeezed by scale, ticket-size requirements and broader geographies, leaving less obvious regional opportunities without the investment and attention they need to succeed.

TNFD is encouraging investors to treat environmental crime as a financial risk requiring better data, due diligence and stewardship

Nature finance frameworks and guidance, from the IIGCC, ISSB and TNFD, are improving disclosure and risk management, but institutional investors still face shortages of scalable, investable opportunities.

Asset owners pushback against the SEC's disclosure rollback as UK and EU policymakers rethink reporting and carbon-market rules

CA100+ shows scale alone cannot drive corporate decarbonisation when asset-owner mandates still prioritise short-term returns, new LSE research concludes

Church of England Pensions Board's SaraTaaffe explains why falling portfolio emissions alone cannot show whether pension funds are driving real-world climate progress