Renewables: winds of change

2024 Outlook
SDG Engagement High Yield Credit, H1 2023 Report

In their latest report, our award-winning SDG Engagement High Yield Credit team explain what true engagement looks like. They provide an overview of recent performance and portfolio changes – along with a comprehensive breakdown of the shape of engagement in the first six months of the year. Fast reading: 101 of 121 companies engaged in […]
Spectrum Q3 2023: No robots were harmed in the making of this report

In a 1962 collection of short stories, sci-fi sage Arthur C Clarke postulated his third law, that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. Now, as we push through the second decade of the 21st century and into a future seemingly set up for AI, Clarke’s law appears more apt than ever. Through the […]
Sustainable fixed income: Five questions answered

Question one: How does engagement in fixed income work in practice? It’s a myth that engagement in the realm of fixed income is less effective than for equities. Our multi-decade experience of deep engagement with companies issuing debt illustrates this – and we have a solid track record that underlines how effective engagement can be […]
SDG Engagement High Yield Credit, Annual Report 2022

Turning engagement into meaningful change
Financial inclusion and banking

A billion-person opportunity?
Shifting the spotlight

The value of biodiversity
Protect, sustain, restore: Why the Amazon matters

Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Dr Adriana De Palma, Dr Gareth E Thomas, Sara Contu, and Prof. Andy Purvis from the Natural History Museum for providing the data and analysis contained within this report. The Amazon rainforest, home to some 10% of known species on earth, is a lynchpin for global biodiversity. Here, the […]
Climate Change High Yield Credit Annual Report, 2022

Fast reading As well as the usual performance and carbon footprint data, this latest report from the Climate Change High Yield team takes a close look at how the Carbon Disclosure Project (CPD) has helped increase the accountability of companies around the world as they report on sustainability. Elsewhere, we provide an overview of how […]
360°, Q3 2022

Rates, recovery, recession