Advising on impact investment

Introduction

Increasingly, wealth managers, private bankers and investment consultants are being asked to incorporate impact into their clients’ investment preferences, but what’s the best way to do that? How can an adviser identify what their clients want and report back to them on the impact that they are having? This module provides some of the answers in this developing discipline.

How to use these resources

The module covers the retail demand for impact investment, how to communicate with investors about impact, how to construct impact portfolios and how to undertake impact due diligence. It also touches on the regulatory framework for retail investment in impact and the UK’s tax regime for impact investing.

Resources in this module

Incorporating impact in addition to ESG in clients’ portfolios
Client communication
Regulation – regulatory requirements relating to impact and other sustainable investments
Tax regimes applicable to impact investing
Selection of impact funds that meet client preferences

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Incorporating impact in addition to ESG in clients’ portfolios

Construction of an Impact Portfolio

Impact Assets

Reading time: 25 minutes

A comprehensive review of considerations for setting up a successful impact investment portfolio. Includes a discussion of practices e.g. establishing goals and objectives and writing an investment policy statement, as well as giving many examples of how impact can be achieved through different asset classes. It also discusses risk, return and impact and how to measure these.

What the reviewer found helpful:
“This is a comprehensive report and includes helpful examples of where impact investments can be found across different asset classes, with examples of investors doing this well.”

Mhairi Littlewood

Advanced

Client communication

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Regulation – regulatory requirements relating to impact and other sustainable investments

New ESG disclosure regulation (SFDR) – what private banks, wealth managers and advisers need to know

Allen & Overy

Reading time: 30 minutes

As a further development in the rollout of its green agenda, a new disclosure regulation will shortly come into force in the EU – referred to as the Disclosure Regulation or Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). This will require certain firms, including private banks, wealth managers and advisers, to comply with new rules on disclosure as regards sustainable investments and sustainability risks. This briefing gives further detail on the new requirements and when they will come into effect.

What the reviewer found helpful:
“Legal primer for private banks and wealth managers.”

Chris Cullen

Advanced

Tax regimes applicable to impact investing

There are no Advanced resources for this topic

Selection of impact funds that meet client preferences

There are no Advanced resources for this topic

Introduction

How to use these resources

Resources in this module

Incorporating impact in addition to ESG in clients’ portfolios

Impact Assets

Client communication

Regulation – regulatory requirements relating to impact and other sustainable investments

Allen & Overy

Tax regimes applicable to impact investing

Selection of impact funds that meet client preferences