Sustainable investment
Our award winning* sustainable investment approach offers you the choice to align your investments with your values and sustainability priorities.Careful consideration of material Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors helps to inform our investment decisions to identify opportunities and minimise the risks of failing to adapt. However, many clients choose to go further than ESG integration and invest in a way that actively looks to avoid harm and seeks to create positive outcomes for people and the planet.
For these clients, we offer our award-winning sustainable investment approach. We work to understand your values and how to best reflect them in your investment strategy. You have a direct say on how your wealth can work - aligning your portfolio with your sustainability priorities, while still seeking attractive financial returns.
Our sustainable investment strategies avoid harmful industries and seek out companies who prioritise creating value for their key stakeholders i.e. employees, customers and the environment, as well as those creating solutions to areas of environmental and social need, to drive progress towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
What sets us apart
"As a multi-award-winning sustainable investment manager, we manage over £12bn in assets aligned with our clients' sustainability, ethical, and impact objectives. We are passionate about helping individuals, families and organisations invest in line with their values and drive the positive change they want to see in the world."
Emilie Shaw, Sustainable Soutions Lead
Recognised as a leader in sustainable investment
Cazenove Capital’s sustainable investment specialists work closely with experts from the Schroders Group to develop our sustainable investment expertise. We have over 40 sustainability and impact specialists across the Schroders Group, including a dedicated team of 10 specialists within Cazenove Capital.
We are proud to have been recognised for our capabilities in sustainable investing:
Schroder Group Accreditations
A+
United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment (UNPRI) assessment – 2016-2024
A rated
Carbon Disclosure Project's climate change assessment – 2024
Top 15
ShareAction’s Global Asset Manager for Responsible Investment – 2024
Top 20
Financial Systems Benchmark, World Benchmark Alliance – 2024
AAA rated
and top 3% – MSCI ESG scoring – 2023
Top 5
Global Canopy Forest 500 – 2023
Cazenove Capital Accreditations*
#1
Magic Circle Awards Best ESG/Impact Manager – 2025
#1
Magic Circle Awards Best ESG/Impact Manager – 2024
#1
Magic Circle Awards Best ESG/Impact Manager – 2023
#1
Environmental Finance IMPACT Awards Wealth Manager of the Year – 2023
#1
Jersey Finance Leadership in Sustainable Finance - Investment Management – 2023
Gold
ESG Investing Olympics – 2020
Award winning reporting
Schroders SustainEx is the winner of two prestigious awards for innovation, impact measurement and reporting.
Winner
Environmental Finance Impact Awards – Impact measurement and impact reporting – 2020
Winner
ESG investing Awards – Most innovative ESG Product – 2021
Measuring impact
Investors increasingly want to quantify the impact their holdings have on society and the environment.
Our award winning* impact measurement tool, SustainEx, allows us to quantify the benefits and costs that companies would face if their positive and negative impacts on the world around them were priced. We measure the potential impact of your investments on people and the planet. We can quantify the carbon footprint of your portfolio, for example, and help you reduce it. We can also estimate the monetary value of the social benefits – and costs – that your portfolio generates.
Each year, we release our Sustainability and Impact Reports for each of our sustainable flagship funds: the Sustainable Growth and Sustainable Balanced Funds for our private clients, and the Sustainable Multi-Asset Fund for our charity clients. You can read more about our estimated amalgamated impact achieved across all three of our sustainable flagship funds.
Going beyond: contributing to areas of environmental and social need
A key focus of our sustainable funds is to contribute towards initiatives that provide solutions to areas of environmental need. To further the impact of our sustainable funds, Cazenove Capital has partnered with three charities to directly support core underfunded areas: conservation of the ocean, protecting biodiversity and pushing for climate justice.

Conservation of the ocean
We are partnering with 10% for the Ocean, where we aim to support their work to support existing and the creation of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) and continue to raise public awareness of the importance of the oceans in our fight against climate breakdown.

Protecting biodiversity
We are partnering with Fauna & Flora, where we will focus on protecting populations of important species, while ensuring communities can benefit from diversified income streams and reduced human-wildlife conflict.

Ensuring climate justice
We are partnering with Acumen, whose Hardest-to-Reach initiative focuses on addressing the clean energy needs of underserved communities often excluded from the green energy transition.
Impact Investing
For those clients who would like to allocate their capital to investments which aim to tackle the problems they see in the world, we offer impact investing. These investments are made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact, alongside financial return.
Our Climate Transition Action Plan
We believe that strong financial returns and meeting climate commitments go hand-in-hand. Our Climate Transition Action Plan outlines how we intend to transition to net zero by 2050 or sooner, integrating climate considerations into all that we do.
Engagement Report 2024
Our wealth management 2024 Engagement Report looks at some of the active ownership activity undertaken in the past year.
Contact us
To discuss your wealth management requirements, or to find out more about our services, please contact us below.