Sustainability | ~4 min read
Delivering clarity in a tougher landscape
Sustainable investing is becoming more exacting – and investment-relevant. As investors focus increasingly on real-world returns, data quality and execution, sustainability is moving from broad commitments to practical decision-making. Our Sustainable Investing and Stewardship Report 2025 sets out how we are responding to that shift.
In 2025, investors became more pragmatic about sustainability – with greater focus on data quality, risk management, and access to long-term opportunities. As set out in our recently published Sustainable Investing and Stewardship Report 2025, we have remained consistent in our conviction while aligning our sustainable investment solutions with material, real world change.
Sharper tools for sustainable investing
In response to geopolitical fragmentation, the energy transition and supply chain challenges, we worked to refine and expand solutions linked to structural themes in 2025. These include European autonomy and climate transition strategies – areas where sustainability considerations are directly intertwined with economic resilience and long‑term return potential.
Actionable data has always been central to our sustainable and impact investing offerings, and reliable, accurate data matters now more than ever. That’s why we evolved our “Proprietary Sustainability Score” – via our in-house sustainability insights engine (SusIE) – adding more granularity, materiality, and decision useful insight for corporate and sovereign issuers, providing clients with greater clarity on their investments.
Impact investing moving into the mainstream
Impact investing continued to gain traction over the period, with investors looking to support transition and development needs alongside traditional strategies. The report includes a dedicated chapter on how we see this maturing market offering scalable solutions to global challenges. It also highlights the role our new blended finance and private credit solutions are playing in this market.
Stewardship embedded in the investment toolkit
Active stewardship remains central to what we do. In 2025, we intensified our focus on our priority engagement and voting activity themes like climate transition, biodiversity and governance, while advancing emerging themes such as human rights, and responsible use of artificial intelligence. We share in the report several case studies of successful outcomes, often deriving from long term engagements by our portfolio management teams, including collaborative efforts across the industry.
As sustainable investing evolves, our focus stays the same: being fiduciary led, expertise driven and innovation focused – helping clients make confident decisions in a more complex landscape.
Read more in our new Sustainable Investing and Stewardship Report 2025.
