The path to Net Zero involves significant changes across a range of areas in which we have an impact on the world around us.
Along with the types of food that we eat, and the ways in which we travel, one of the most significant impacts we have on the planet is through the assets that we are invested in – for example our pensions, ISAs, and other investment accounts. Many of us may be making good progress in lowering our environmental footprints in several areas, while not having put much thought to where our investment portfolios are allocated, and the damage they may be doing, directly or indirectly.
Here at Britannic Place, we can provide a wide range of sustainability-focused portfolios to investors, to help them invest in a more sustainable manner, and lower the environmental and social footprints of their portfolios. This ranges from providing solutions that seek to maximise financial return, with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations taken into account, to providing solutions whose primary aim is Socially Responsible Investing, with a focus on reducing carbon compared to the wider market.
When combining this with an ‘evidence-based investment’ philosophy, which is based on analysing decades of academic data to determine the investment traits that have delivered historic outperformance compared to the wider market, the result is an investment approach that is grounded in long-term data, while seeking to deliver a lighter ongoing footprint on the world around us.