Whose impact is it anyway? SDR, change, and the role of investors

The FCA's proposed Sustainability Disclosures Regime has given us a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rebuild the sustainable finance industry into one that delivers positive social and environmental outcomes. But to achieve this we must tackle one of the sectors' key structural weaknesses, the role of investors in driving change. On January the 25th the FCA's consultation period on their proposed Sustainability Disclosures Regime ended. In defining a sustainable investment product as being one that ‘plausibly achieve(s) or encourages(s) positive sustainability outcomes', the FCA immed...