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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Castlefield duo explain their new approach to proxy voting and executive pay future.portfolio-adviser.com/ethical-inve...
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The war in the Middle East is exposing the region’s extreme vulnerability to water stress future.portfolio-adviser.com/water-is-mor...
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
City Hive’s Bev Shah on the changing structure of the industry and the cultural risk that can come with it future.portfolio-adviser.com/scale-listin... #PAFuture #AssetManagement #CityHive #CulturalRisk
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Morningstar’s 2025 year‑in‑review has landed to the now all-too-familiar round of hand-wringing over the “death” of sustainable investment. future.portfolio-adviser.com/clearing-the... #PAFuture #Sustainability #InvestmentManagement
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Sustainability reporting will sit closer to the “core of financial and risk reporting”, after the UK’s department for business & trade published the final versions of the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS S1 and UK SRS S2) last week. future.portfolio-adviser.com/final-uk-srs...
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Sustainable investing has had a sobering few years. For many investors, an initial foray into ESG integrated or sustainable focused funds coincided with Covid, then rising interest rates, and a sharp reversal in market leadership. future.portfolio-adviser.com/sustainable-...
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Artificial intelligence is emerging as both a powerful enabler and a potential risk, writes Stuart Cullinan, chief technology officer, MainStreet Partners Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/embedding-ai... #ArtificialIntelligence #Sustainability #Ethics
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
COP 30 will provide a real-world sustainability challenge on how to balance environmental protection with economic development, writes Ketan Patel Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/from-baku-to... #ClimateFinance #COP30 #Sustainability
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
After more than 40 years in the investment industry, Andrew Parry is stepping back from investment management and, most latterly, his role as head of investment at JO Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM). Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/andrew-parry...
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Sustainable investment professionals react to OBR report that identifies significant impact of climate change on UK GDP and government debt Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/chilling-thr... #ClimateChange #GovernmentDebt #Transition
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Julia Dreblow, founder, SRI Services & Fund EcoMarket, warns intermediaries not to make assumptions about sustainable funds based on SDR labels. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/uk-retail-su... #FundClassification #FundLabelling #Sustainability
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The decline in the variety of plant and animal life on our planet is not just a concern for scientists. It’s rapidly becoming a material issue for financial markets. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/biodiversity... #Biodiversity #Investment #ClimateBonds
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Big Issue Invest has revealed it has transformed the lives of over 5,000 young people through its £1.25m funding of the Chances Social Partnership. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/big-issue-in... #SocialImpact #Investment #SocioEconomic
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The Sierra Club Foundation urged institutional investors, particularly asset owners, such as pension funds, to confront climate change as a systemic financial threat to the global economy and long-term portfolio returns in its latest paper. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/sierra-club-...
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
As the investment industry continues to grapple with geopolitical volatility, market shocks and shifting client demands, the role of fund selectors has never been more critical – or more complex. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/culture-as-a... #Diversity #Inclusion #Greenhushing
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Cognitive diversity can lead to better performance from investment teams, a new survey from the London Business School has suggested, but firms also need to consider if they have a culture of inclusivity to see the benefits. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/cognitive-di...
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Non-profit financial think tank Planet Tracker has urged companies to use bonus structures to incentivise executives to hit sustainability goals. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/materiality-... #Sustainability #Policy #PlanetTracker
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Financial institutions are increasingly recognising the importance of the specific geographic location of company assets. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/understandin... #ESG #GreenFinance #ClimateChange
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Promises of perennial outperformance were likely to result in disillusionment when markets turned, and turn they did. Then, of course, there is the political backlash, exemplified but not confined to the current US administration. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/reports-of-m...
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The UK has launched the Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDE) Investor Taskforce, an industry-led initiative dedicated to unlocking private investment to tackle climate change and seize sustainable growth opportunities. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/uk-investor-...
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Tribe Impact Capital has acquired Snowball Impact Investments in a move that expands the firm’s capabilities with specialist private market investment offerings. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/tribe-impact... #PrivateMarket #Investments #Shareholders
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Hannah Simons discusses the latest sustainable fixed income market trends. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/qa-with-lloy... #Sustainability #Bonds #FixedIncome #Biodiversity
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
While headlines fixate on AI’s surging energy consumption, they’re missing an important story. The breathtaking pace of efficiency gains has the potential to fundamentally reshape global power dynamics and investment opportunities. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/ai-efficienc...
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The global green economy has reached a total value of $7.9trn, accounting for 8.6% of global listed equities in the first quarter of 2025, while the green bond market saw record new issuance of $572bn in 2024 – a 10% per annum increase: LSEG. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/global-green...
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
“Only when the tide goes out, do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” This quote from Warren Buffett is aptly suited to describe today’s sustainable finance landscape. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/green-withou... #SustainableInvesting #ESG #PWC
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
HSBC’s CEO Georges Elhedery and chair Mark Edward Tucker reaffirmed the bank’s commitment to its long-term net-zero ambition at its annual general meeting. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/hsbc-chair-a... #HSBC #NetZero #Investors #ClimateTargets
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Many people who invested in renewable energy investment trusts over the past few years might well run for the hills if anybody suggested putting more money into the sector. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/why-the-rene... #RenewableEnergy #InvestmentTrusts #Sustainability
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Climate-named funds have expanded rapidly in both publicly listed and private capital markets, reflecting growing investor interest in the energy transition and decarbonisation opportunities: MSCI. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/investor-int...
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Sustainable-themed global equity funds outperformed the MSCI All Countries World index during the chaos wrought after Donald Trump announced his ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, according to data provided by FE fundinfo. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/five-sustain... #Sustainability #EquityFund
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The New York City comptroller, Brad Lander, has set out new expectations for asset managers, warning they must have credible transition plans to meet net zero if they want to manage the City’s pension funds. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/nyc-comptrol... #ClimateChange #Assets #Funds
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
UK financial planning firms are ramping up investment in technology, especially AI, to simplify the advice process and improve compliance. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/two-thirds-o... #ArtificialIntelligence #FinancialAdvice #FinancialPlanning
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
In this Green Dream episode, Daniel Lurch, lead portfolio manager for the J. Safra Sarasin Sustainable Equity – Green Planet fund, talks about the four key investment themes of the fund. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/green-dream-... #SustainableInvesting #Funds #RenewableEnergy #ESG
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has been a catalyst for the debate on whether the defence industry should be part of the investible universe for sustainable investors. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/sustainable-... #Sustainability #ESG #Defence #Ethics
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The 55th Earth Day takes place today (22 April 2025) with the theme of ‘Our Power, Our Planet’, calling for action to triple clean electricity generation by 2030. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/earth-day-20... #Renewable #GreenEnergy #EarthDay
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
University of Cambridge to develop first global bond index to address fossil fuel expansion. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/university-o... #CoporateBonds #CoporateDebt #Emissions #FossilFuels
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Adding an ESG term to the name of a fund has “a significant impact” on fund inflows during the five quarters following the name change: European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/esma-study-f... #ESG #Funds #Environment #Inflows
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It helps to have a long-term viewpoint on occasion. Sustainability professionals should be long-term by definition, but we can be just as guilty of being blown by the fickle winds of fate as the next person. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/diversity-eq... #DEI #Geopolitics #Diversity
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Financial institutions worldwide are attempting to decarbonise but are still reluctant to reduce their fossil fuel investments, leading to “financial cakeism”, according to the latest report by South Pole. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/financial-in... #FossilFuels #NetZero #Investments
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
FRS Foundation and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) have committed to build upon the TNFD recommendations. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/ifrs-foundat... #FinancialDisclosure #Sustainability #CapitalMarkets
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
In the eye of the Omnibus storm in the EU, we shouldn’t forget that sustainable finance predates the EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/the-omnibus-... #CoporateReporting #Sustainability #EU
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
COP30 will be the first to take place in the Amazon. The location could hardly be more symbolic: the world’s largest and most iconic rainforest ecosystem is nearing an irreversible tipping point. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/financing-na... #Finance #NatureBasedSolutions #COP30
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
How has SDR affected UK investment portfolios so far? Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/how-has-sdr-... #InvesmentPortfolios #FundLabels #FCA
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Alpha FMC: Regulation, AI and private markets to shape asset & wealth management growth. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/alpha-fmc-re... #FinancialMarkets #ArtificialIntelligence #Fintech
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Q&A with Parmenion’s Mollie Thornton: Negative ESG narrative surrounding Trump is overdone Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/qa-with-parm... #NetZero #SustainableInvesting
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Growing concerns over the lack of ambition in the targets set by sustainability-linked bond (SLB) issuers. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/could-regula... #Sustainability #GreenPortoflios #Investments
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I'm going to guess that you may not have heard of the British Standards Institution’s (BSI) PAS 7342, the new British standard specification for retail sustainable investment funds. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/introducing-... #SustainableInvesting #FundStandards #SDR
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
When world leaders agreed to a net-zero target by 2050 under the Paris Agreement, it seemed there was a broad consensus on protecting the planet. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/can-a-house-... #GreenFuture #SustainableFinance #Investors #NetZero
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
In January, it was announced Foresight Group had acquired impact investment specialist WHEB Asset Management in a deal that will add almost £800m to the group’s AUM. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/qa-what-does... #AssetManagement #Investment #SDR
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
2024 was a big setback for net zero coalitions. Many asset managers, especially US asset managers, left the Net Zero Asset Manager Initiative and Climate Action 100+. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/net-zero-coa... #NetZero #NewManagementModel #AssetManagement
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PA Future @pafuture.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have abandoned plans to impose stricter rules for diversity, equity and inclusion to “avoid duplication and unnecessary costs”. Learn more: future.portfolio-adviser.com/fca-and-pra-... #FCA #DEI #FinancialServices
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