Regulatory outlook 2024: The year where waiting turns into action
ESG Clarity asked industry bodies and regulatory experts about what to expect for the year ahead
SDR
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SDR: Three major impacts to look out for in 2024
Seb Beloe, partner and head of research at WHEB Asset Management, explains how SDR will change the sustainable investment market over the next year
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SFDR review responses: Go further with mandatory disclosures and formalise fund labelling
Industry at odds over whether it’s appropriate to ditch Article 8 and 9 ‘labels’
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One third of platforms and advisory groups ‘would fail’ SDR entity-level disclosure requirements
‘No time to waste in setting targets and collecting reliable emissions data’
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SDR and the new investment labels: Will the data stack up?
Stewarts’ Elisa Wahnon says asset managers needs to closely look at underlying data to avoid falling foul of the rules
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SDR an ‘important moment’ in building trust in the UK’s sustainable investing market
However, some concerns it creates space for greenwashing
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CCLA on SDR: ‘There will be a degree of testing, and that takes time’
CCLA’s Peter Hugh Smith and James Corah express their views on the FCA’s final policy statement
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FCA releases Sustainability Disclosure Requirements
Long-awaited SDR includes changes such as a fourth fund label, and less prescriptive stewardship and disclosure rules
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SDR and green taxonomy updates: Takeaways from UKSIF summit
Baroness Vere announces transition plan disclosure consultation and panels discuss COP28 and regulation
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Financial advisers should tell clients about 1.5 degree pathway investments
Questions over Mifid II and SDR remain but Morningstar IM’s Bragazza says advisers have ‘responsibility’ to clients
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Long-awaited SDR ‘missed opportunity’ for advisers
For the labelling scheme to work it needs to be easy to implement and contain sufficient options
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FCA’s Manning exits to set up firm
New advisory business will support regulators and policymarkers on transformation to sustainable future