Despite an inordinate amount of words written by sustainability advisers over the last 10 years, Trustees are still none the wiser about how to account for climate change in their scheme’s SIPs. Now regulations have been expanded to include Impact Investing, a simple philosophy that offers Trustees the ability to influence social good, but where purists insist on a conflict between intentionality and the priority for investment returns This threatens the added burden of another raft of definitions and measurements that risk disenfranchising LGPS (in particular) from benefiting their local communities. On the other hand, a strategy such as AEW’s UK real-estate strategy can have a significant social impact while meeting fiduciary investment objectives, without the need to be labelled as a ‘social impact fund’. AEW believes that enabling and not labelling should be the defining force for good.
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