Green Dream with Big Issue Invest: Social impact factors to look out for in 2025
Investing in neurodivergent-led and owned businesses, as well as community solar panels where cost-of-living crisis is felt the most
Social Impact
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Big Issue Invest hunts for new CEO
Danyal Sattar OBE to step down after six years
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BSC calls on government to channel social impact investing in Budget as market hits £10bn AUM
AUM has grown 12-fold since 2012, but social challenges in UK are growing
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Climate change and inequality are inextricably linked
Ahead of COP29, Nuveen’s Rekha Unnithan highlights the commercial opportunity in addressing climate change and inequality
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Generational responsibility: Could ESG shape the future of financial strategy for sovereign wealth funds?
Oxford University’s Ana Nacvalovaite says sovereign wealth funds will ’embrace a more nuanced approach’ to ESG
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Labour government ‘continues to put net zero as a central policy’ post-election win
Private sector investment and complimentary policy statements ‘crucial’ to speeding up the process
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Are the social benefits of crypto-assets being ‘overlooked’ by ESG fund managers?
Fund managers remain reluctant to include crypto-assets in their funds despite ‘real world social impact’
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Q&A: Vontobel’s Frontczak on medical aid, Ozempic and healthcare innovation
Vontobel’s Joanna Frontczak is an analyst on the firm’s global impact equities fund
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Four key ESG viewpoints for H2 2024
From re-thinking net zero to the re-emergence of a steady investment environment, managers share their outlooks for the second half of the year
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Calls for increased tech investment for heavy industries’ climate transition
With the help of increasing investments in market-ready technologies
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Big Society Capital to change name amid plans to scale up funding
‘Raising the profile of social impact investing in the UK’
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Mirova launches SFDR Article 9 social impact strategy
Pursuing positive societal impact