ESG & Sustainable Investing

Our most recent Spotlight on ESG: Unveiling the greenwashing smokescreen webinar, hosted by Johnathan Owen, discusses greenwashing and how we look to navigate the complex landscape of sustainable claims. 

Our most recent Spotlight on ESG: Unlocking sustainable opportunities within ABS webinar, hosted by Pauline Quirin and Elena Rinaldi, explored European ABS from an ESG perspective.

This paper takes a deep dive into the flourishing ESG sector and examines the trends, challenges, and opportunities that have emerged in recent years, with a particular focus on data quality, the expansion of ESG labelled bonds, action from central banks and whether or not the green premium or ‘greenium’ makes sense for issuers.

Our most recent TwentyFour Sustainable Strategic Income Fund webinar, hosted by Charlene Malik and Dillon Lancaster, provided a macro update for fixed income markets, before looking at positioning of the fund and ESG engagements they have recently carried out.

Portfolio Manager Johnathan Owen hosted a ‘Unmasking best reporting & engagement practices’ webinar, which explored how the ESG landscape has changed within fixed income.

Thames Water has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons in the past week. In our latest blog, Johnathan Owen explores their operational struggles, how the potential nationalisation raises concerns for investors and the wider implications for green bonds.

Partner and Portfolio Manager Chris Bowie & Portfolio Manager Johnathan Owen hosted a ‘Spotlight on ESG: A Changing Climate in Fixed Income’ webinar, which explored how the ESG landscape has changed within fixed income.

Johnathan Owen looks at the ECB’s plans to ‘green’ their asset purchasing program going forward, and what this could mean for credit spreads.

Since we published our October 2019 whitepaper, ‘ESG and ABS at TwentyFour’, the global ESG market has continued to grow dramatically. We have seen a Green ABS market begin to emerge, improvements in sustainable data and an increasing focus on ESG in the leveraged loan and CLO markets. But what does all this mean for investors?

Charlene Hogg summarises the firm's ESG activities in Q3 2022 including successful application for the UK Stewardship Code.

How has ESG in the ABS market changed over the last year? Pauline Quirin talks through some of the positive development she's seen and the main challenges facing the ABS market.

Charlene Hogg summarises the firm's ESG activities in Q2 2022 and explains how regulation, planning for net zero and CSR are having an impact.