Over the past week, the big news for the asset management industry has been the release of Greening Finance: A Roadmap to Sustainable Investing – HM Treasury’s roadmap for implementing the new Sustainability Disclosure Requirements.
Standardised sustainability reporting has long been called for by investors, with the EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) making serious waves across the asset management industry when it came into force in March this year. According to data from Morningstar, more than one in five European funds already meet Article 8 or Article 9 requirements at 18% and 3.6% respectively, with Europe's ESG and sustainable fund market estimated to be worth up to €2.5trn. Top ten takeaways from Greening Finance: A roadmap to sustainable investing There is arguably more to this than me...
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