Strategic Focus: Overcoming Barriers To Portfolio-Level Climate Risk Integration
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Executive Summary
Investors increasingly expect asset managers to act on climate risk – both transition and physical – by integrating risk assessment across the investment life cycle. However, barriers such as fiduciary duty conflicts, weakening policy incentives, and gaps in data quality and modelling complexity inhibit portfolio managers from fully embedding climate considerations. While mapping climate risk across the investment life cycle is challenging, it is achievable. Clear investment objectives, robust fund governance strategies, and a strong data management and monitoring infrastructure – paired with third-party climate financial data and analytics tools – can enable greater integration of climate risk variables across the investment value chain.About the Authors
Felicity Laird
Principal Analyst
Felicity is a Principal Analyst at Verdantix, where she helps financial institutions and technology vendors navigate the evolving climate finance data and analytics landscape....
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Ryan Skinner
Research Director
Ryan is a Research Director at Verdantix, where he leads a team of analysts delivering research, data and advisory services that help clients navigate the fast-evolving landsc...
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