Sustainable debt – ESG Club feature


sovereign and corporate,” says Scott Freedman, a fixed income portfolio manager at Newton Investment Management. “This provides a growing number of opportunities for bond investors to help further the drive to achieve positive environ- mental and social objectives, even in an environment of several ESG headwinds,” he adds. Historically, sustainability has been promoted in equity portfo- lios. However, this is changing as investors and their stake-


holders believe that such a policy should stretch to all the assets they have exposure to. And different asset classes need differ- ent approaches. “Although a lot of focus has been on the equity side, there are a number of tools on the debt side to do this. And those tools are becoming more sophisticated,” says Jonathan Lawrence, senior responsible investment analyst, active fixed income at Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM).


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