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Focus on environment and water quality

Pieter Busscher, senior portfolio manager at RobecoSAM, explores how new matierlais including carbon fibres are helping to boost the automation space and robotics into a new era

For most of the past decade, markets have operated in the shadow of geopolitical and macroeconomic storm clouds, writes Ken Wotton, manager of the Wood Street Microcap Investment fund.

Fund managers from this year's Sustainable Investment Conference explain how they place sustainability at the heart of their investment process and identify the key stocks and themes driving their funds.

The lead-up to and events immediately following the UK Brexit confirmed to us that the optimal route into the property sector is via a 'permanent capital' model, specifically listed real estate investment trusts (REITs).

Benefits of low-growth environment

Jessica Ground, head of stewardship at Schroders, analyses the results of the Schroders Global Investor Study which reveals ESG factors are continuing to gain momentum among the investment community and why advisers can no longer afford to ignore them...

The headlines for 2017

As 2017 approaches, sustainable investment is high on the agenda for many fund managers and experts. Here, they reveal which areas will make headlines and how they will gain exposure to them within their portfolios.

Rallied following Clinton defeat