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Flooding the market: The Climate Mortgage Trap
Read it and weep. Households may also face costs of up to £45,000 to make their homes liveable after a storm due to their climate exposure, while being uninsured.
Navigating Market Extremes
Recalibrating Multi-Asset Portfolios in an Era of Concentration Risk. In short, portfolios that appear diversified may, in fact, be structurally fragile.
Biodiversity Net Gain: From Policy Innovation to Market Reality
If implemented effectively, BNG could position the UK not just as an early mover, but as a global leader in nature-positive growth.
Women Leading the Transition: Shaping Sustainability Through Influence, Insight, and Action
Women have played—and continue to play—a critical role in shaping the evolution of sustainability. Not just as advocates, but as architects of systems, processes, and decisions that define how capital is allocated and how businesses operate.
Endurance Equals Alpha: A Different Lens on Long-Term Capital
Rethinking the “rules” creates edge. Cliff Young didn’t consciously innovate—he simply didn’t know the accepted strategy, so he didn’t follow it. That became his advantage.
Carbon Capture: The Investment Case No One Is Fully Comfortable With — But Few Can Ignore
The whole Carbon Capture debate centres on one big question:
Are you allocating capital based on certainty — or shaping outcomes despite uncertainty?
Growing with your country: Thoughts from a long-term optimist. Larry Fink
What do messages like this actually change in how decisions are made?
From Sunlight to Synthetic Fuel: Breakthrough or Overstatement?
The question is not whether artificial photosynthesis will change the energy landscape—but when, and at what scale.
Why Investors Are Watching Nutrition More Closely Than Ever
For financial leaders across Europe and beyond, the answer carries implications far beyond the supermarket shelf.
Climate Risk, Fiduciary Duty and the Shifting ESG Debate
Rather than asking whether ESG considerations conflict with fiduciary responsibility, courts and regulators may increasingly confront the opposite question: whether failing to consider material sustainability-related risks constitutes a breach of it.
Stewardship Under Scrutiny
Important findings from Maanch that raise important questions about the effectiveness — and credibility — of stewardship across the investment chain.
Geopolitics and the New Investment Landscape: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Finance
Large institutional investors—including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and insurance companies—face particular challenges in this environment.
A Changing Sovereign Landscape
New funds are taking shape on three continents, mandates are evolving in response to shifting national priorities, and multi-country co-operation vehicles built by and for our community are moving from paper to practice.
Collective Action, Flooding, EU ETS, Supermarkets & Netflix
EU leaders are clashing over carbon pricing ahead of a critical review of the EU’s flagship climate policy, the Emissions Trading System (ETS). Giles Gibbons, always worth reading.
Britain’s Pension Gamble: Can Politics and Prudence Share the Same Portfolio?
The danger lies not in ambition, but in ambiguity.
Leadership in Financial Markets: Why Advisory Boards Matter More Than Ever
At a time defined by market volatility, geopolitical uncertainty, and structural change across industries, leadership forums need to shift beyond theoretical discussion toward practitioner-led dialogue rooted in real-world decision-making experience. Meet the Advisory Board for RAOtheAmericas26
Global investors optimistic going into 2026
A report released by Ontario Teachers Pension Plan says that U.K. investors are optimistic entering 2026. Explore their investor sentiment report to learn more.
The Allocation Gap: When Investment Bias Overrides Investment Evidence
An open door. Underallocated Alpha: What the Gender Investment Gap Means for Institutional Portfolios
Energy Transition Investing: Capital Flows, Market Dynamics, and the Next Phase of Infrastructure Transformation
For institutional investors, the energy transition is no longer simply an environmental allocation or impact theme. It is a structural infrastructure cycle.
Nature Loss as a Portfolio Risk: Why Biodiversity Decline Is Moving onto the Investment Agenda
Biodiversity is shifting from being viewed primarily as an environmental concern to becoming a core dimension of portfolio risk management, with implications that extend across asset classes, geographies, and investment horizons.
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