All Asset consultants articles
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Reports/Guides
How policy and regulation affect investment consultants' approach to ESG considerations
Globally, we’ve seen growth in ESG-related regulation for asset owners and investment managers, but not investment consultants.
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Reports/Guides
Investment consulting and a sustainable financial system
ESG considerations seen as niche service offerings, often entailing extra costs, and only to be provided when explicitly requested by asset owner clients.
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Reports/GuidesInvestment consultants services review
Most consultants and their asset owner clients are failing to consider ESG issues in investment practice – despite growing evidence of the financial materiality of ESG issues to portfolio value.
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Reports/Guides
Potential improvements to how investment consultants approach ESG considerations
Our central conclusion is that investment consultants are unlikely to take action on ESG issues without stronger incentives to do so from their asset owner clients.
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Reports/Guides
How market structure affects investment consultants approach to ESG considerations
Relationships between asset owners and investment consultants have a major influence on whether and how investment consultants take account of ESG issues in the advice that they provide.
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Reports/Guides
How industry practices affect investment consultants approach to ESG considerations
Market structure issues are compounded by consulting practices and processes.
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News and press
FCA Asset Management Market Study: Final Report
Today, the FCA published its asset management market study final report .
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Academic research
Are investment consultants' reputations the next stranded assets
A paper from Ben Caldecott and Dane Rook lays out why investment consultants are not having a bigger influence on the uptake of green investment practices by asset owners.
