Sustainable Conference 2023 | Liontrust Asset Management PLC

Sustainable themes are still compelling despite the challenges of the last year. In this series of videos taken from the Liontrust Virtual Sustainable Investment Conference, entitled Exploring the new era for sustainable investment, the Sustainable Investment team explain how the themes and the quality of companies aligned with them make them more excited about prospects for the decade ahead than they have been in years.

AI & digital security

Chris Foster & Harriet Parker look at how developments in digital technologies such as AI have enhanced the productivity of businesses and improved our lives, and examine the trends over the next decade.

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Building better cities

Analyst Ed Phelps examines how energy-efficient businesses in the Sustainable Future range could benefit from increased urbanisation, helping us to live better and reducing emissions from the environment.

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Cleaner electricity, a greener grid

Investment manager Mike Appleby looks at the need to replace fossil fuels with cleaner electricity to decarbonise our economy, the future for low carbon energy and what this might mean for the way we live.

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Financing the transition

Tackling the climate emergency is vital but the costs are huge. Investment managers Aitken Ross & Jack Willis look at how to finance the climate transition to net zero, and the role private investment has to play.

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Healthcare innovation

The Sustainable Investment team cover their Innovation in healthcare theme and chat to Thomas Breuer, chief health officer at GlaxoSmithKline, to discuss its vaccine development strategy.

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Investing in the climate transition

Investment manager Mike Appleby discusses how climate change is leading to extreme weather events, and making the 1.5 degree warming target ever harder to achieve. He argues carbon reduction must be the focus.

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Safer, more efficient transport

Sustainable Investment head Peter Michaelis looks at the huge social and environmental costs linked to the way we move ourselves and the need to move to safer, more efficient transport. There are solutions.

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The factory of the future

34% of greenhouse gas emissions come from the industrial sector and waste is rife. In this video investment manager Simon Clements examines how the ‘factory of the future’ will use technologies to slash waste.

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The future of sustainable investment

Sustainable Investment head Peter Michaelis discusses the role of sustainable investment in addressing the climate challenge. He looks at what this means for the future and why there are reasons for optimism.

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Sustainable Investment team

The team has been managing the Sustainable Future funds for more than 22 years. The team is headed by Peter Michaelis who has been managing the funds since launch. The fund managers all joined from Alliance Trust Investments (ATI) as part of its acquisition and were previously running the Sustainable Future fund range at Aviva Investors.