Sustainable investment
Our award winning* sustainable investment approach offers you the choice to align your investments with your values and sustainability priorities.The world is changing at pace. Climate change, shifting demographics and technology are reshaping our planet and society. These shifts cannot be ignored.
We believe that these long-term structural trends will have significant influence on financial markets. 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. We adopt this approach across all our investment strategies, because we believe it makes good financial sense. Importantly, ESG integration does not mean we are specifically targeting sustainability objectives or excluding investments on sustainability grounds.
We work with a team of ESG specialists and proprietary tools from Schroders Group to help us appraise the investments we make. Schroders group has over 20 years of experience integrating ESG analysis into everyday investment decisions.
Delivering profit with purpose
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 aim to allocate to in investments that provide an overall positive sustainability outcome based on environmental and social factors. We may also allocate a proportion of the portfolio to investments that aim to contribute to solutions in areas of environmental and social need, by including investments that seek to drive progress towards achieving one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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.
Measuring impact
Investors increasingly want to quantify the impact their holdings have on society and the environment.
Our adopted Impact Management Framework enables us to choose investments that aim to create positive change. As part of this framework, we have our award winning* impact measurement tool, SustainEx. This 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.
Going beyond: contributing towards 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.
Annual sustainability and impact reports 2023
Our fourth annual sustainability and impact reports for our flagship sustainable funds describes the active fund management approach during 2023 and evaluates the positive impact each fund has made through capital allocation and our active engagement.
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 50 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 – 2016-2022
A rated
Carbon Disclosure Project's climate change assessment – 2022
Top 5
ShareAction’s Global Asset Manager for Responsible Investment – 2022
Top 20
Financial Systems Benchmark, World Benchmark Alliance – 2022
AAA rated
and top 3% – MSCI ESG scoring – 2022
Top 5
Global Canopy Forest 500 – 2023
Cazenove Capital Accreditations*
#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 wining 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
Engagement Report 2023
Cazenove Capital’s 2023 Engagement Report looks at some of the active ownership activity undertaken in the past year. We believe that by understanding how a company or manager is considering all its stakeholders, alongside traditional financial analysis, can help us better assess a company or strategy's long-term investment potential.
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.
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