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Learn moreSystemic risks are un-diversifiable risks that can impact entire markets or economic systems through complex interconnections, potentially triggering chain reactions across multiple sectors and disrupting overall market growth. Such risks include climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, income inequality, artificial intelligence, geopolitics and trade wars. Systemic risks matter because: – For diversified institutional investors with…
UKSIF’s thought leadership report, Unlocking UK pension capital for sustainable growth: Recommendations from UKSIF’s pensions review, outlines a series of recommendations on behalf of our UK asset owner network- and wider members- aimed at putting the UK’s pension assets to work more effectively in the wider economy to drive positive outcomes for pension savers, while…
The UK economy is disproportionately exposed to stranded fossil fuel assets, with potential losses for UK pension savers reaching tens of billions of pounds by 2040, according to a new report from the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) in collaboration with Transition Risk Exeter (Trex). This analysis traces the complex web of financial…
Our response to the Committee’s inquiry on the National Wealth Fund encourages policymakers to consider how the newly established NWF can be most effective in crowding in private capital, and what role it can play in the UK’s net zero transition and help to stimulate growth. We cover: The National Wealth Fund’s strategic objectives The…
Systemic risks are un-diversifiable risks that can impact entire markets or economic systems through complex interconnections, potentially triggering chain reactions across multiple sectors and disrupting overall market growth. Such risks include climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, income inequality, artificial intelligence, geopolitics and trade wars. Systemic risks matter because: – For diversified institutional investors with…
A stronger focus on systemic risks needed for resilient portfolio returns New Report identifies the importance of systemic stewardship 7 May 2025 At UKSIF’s Spring Conference in Edinburgh, UKSIF, Scottish Widows and Canbury have published a new report outlining the rationale for an enhanced focus on systemic risk in financial services with a clear…