The Annual General Meeting season is a useful indicator of the state of play between corporates and investors. 2025 will mark the shift from post-covid sustainability-related grand statements closer to rationality.
The effects of the pandemic, war, persistent environmental degradation, and inequality mean that the role of sustainability in business and investment has never been higher profile.
In 2022, the consideration of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors and sustainable investing was inevitably put to the test, notably through increased scrutiny of definitions and a politicisation of the debate, particularly in the US.
As an independent and high-conviction investor, we have chosen to prioritise our ESG focus on the following three core themes, Climate, Empowerment and Leadership that are important to our business and in which we feel we can make a tangible difference.
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