Various strategies can be called on when implementing a sustainable investing framework, from negative screening to impact investingIn about six weeks, the next decade will be ushered in. While it presents us with an opportunity to examine the decade past, it also allows us to look forward and consider which trends will transform the local and global asset management industry.
The expectations from the regulator are that a retirement fund’s process will be able to test areas of evaluation, monitoring and “active ownership” in pursuit of its sustainable investment objectives. While the challenges are significant, the leading sustainable asset management practitioners will develop an authentic and credible approach, articulating how sustainability is rooted in their investment philosophy. Evidence-based proof of its integration in the investment approach, process and outcomes should support its credibility. “Active ownership” is a key area within the framework in which engagement, intervention and voting act as the voice of the investor.
Trustees need to avoid thinly resourced functions that focus more on compliance and, instead, employ authentic practitioners that drive a mandate to activate, enable and equip investment professionals to make better decisions, using a sustainable investing lens.
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