What are the big sustainable investment themes for next year and beyond? (Part I)

As 2017 approaches, sustainable investment is high on the agenda for many fund managers and experts. Here, they reveal which areas will make headlines and how they will gain exposure to them within their portfolios.

Mike Fox, head of sustainable investments at Royal London Asset Management Artificial intelligence (AI) The biggest theme for sustainable investors for next year and beyond will be AI, which has the potential to transform society in a way that until recently only seemed possible in science fiction movies. Although a number of definitions exist, the easiest is to think about the ability of computers to find solutions to problems without prior programming. This has become possible due to the huge increase in computing power and data now prevalent in society. AI is already transformi...