50 terms every sustainable investor should understand

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Sustainability, once a fringe consideration, has become a core concern for many investors. The impact companies have on the world – from climate change through to the treatment of employees – is making headlines every day. Those that adapt should thrive; those that don’t, will not. This will have an obvious impact on profits and therefore the share and bond prices of those companies. Investors are paying ever-closer attention. Our recent Schroders Global Investor Study 2018, which gathered the views of 20,000 investors, offers strong evidence of this. It found that 67% of investors had increased the amounts they put into sustainable investments in the past five years. However, 57% of investors also said a lack of information prevents them from investing, or investing more, in sustainable investments. Even if the principles are fairly simple, we recognise that the field has become a sea of acronyms and technical terms, which can leave investors confused. That’s where we can help. We’ve put together a glossary of the key terms every sustainable investor, or anyone new to the field, needs to know