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  • Time for politicians to make polluters pay, Steve Waygood says

    29 November 2023

    Aviva Investors' chief responsible investment officer discusses the asset manager's macro-stewardship programme and why markets will collapse if governments don't rise to the challenge

  • Methodology note to assess climate risk in sovereigns launched

    14 November 2023

    While insurers call on governments to correct "biggest market failure" of our time

  • "Transition is a financial stability and global security crisis, not just about pandas," Aviva Investors' Waygood

    24 April 2023

    A price on carbon at $150/tonne and governments' intervention key for survival of civilisation as we know it, he says

  • Aviva Investors joins UK charities' call for businesses to consider nature

    20 April 2023

    Along with UK businesses, financial services firms, regulators and academics

  • Sustainability and Solvency II: an imprudent regime

    17 October 2019

    Aviva Investors' Steve Waygood and Ben Carr, discuss integrating sustainability risk to Solvency II capital requirements, and why in some respect the prudential regulation is ‘imprudent’. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Sustainability and Solvency II: Is the frog dead yet?

    10 October 2019

    If the planet is a frog in a saucepan heated by the market, at the moment we are only taking the temperature and not reducing the heat, according to Steve Waygood, chief responsible investment officer, and Ben Carr, analytics and capital modelling director, at Aviva Investors. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Spurring sustainable investments with capital charges

    19 September 2019

    The question of capital charges punishing ‘brown’ investments or incentivising ‘green’ investments has come to the fore. While regulators are asking for risk-based evidence, stakeholders are not all in agreement on how to proceed. Vincent Huck reports

  • Insurers back calls for governments to implement net-zero emission strategies without delay

    02 May 2019

    UK, Dutch and Swedish insurers urge governments to start implementing plans to be carbon neutral by 2050

  • People moves Round-up: 15 March 2019

    15 March 2019

    Aviva Investors, Invesco, Axa Investment Managers, M&G Investments

  • European Commission provides the sustainability weapon... ammunition to follow

    10 January 2019

    Investment professionals have given a mixed reaction to draft EU rules on integrating sustainability in the fiduciary duty of investment firms and insurers. These rules are tied to another piece of legislation currently being designed and whose outcome could lead to significant change… or further greenwashing. Vincent Huck reports