Tag: SFDR
Navigating the regulatory crossroads: Why increasing divergence matters for investment funds
Introduction In a time of rapid regulatory change, investment managers face a shifting landscape. As highlighted in a recent article by Funds Europe, our own Lewis Davison explores how the widening divergence in regulatory approaches across Washington, Brussels, and London is influencing funds’ structure, domicile, and investor reach. (Funds Europe) At Confluence, we believe recognising […]
SFDR in 2025: fixes, challenges, and what’s next
It doesn’t feel like five minutes have passed since the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) first became applicable, particularly the product-level disclosures that took effect in January 2023. Expected changes to this framework should be finalized in 2025. Meanwhile, the UK’s ‘Sustainability Disclosure Requirements’ (SDR) framework has taken a different approach to disclosures. Despite […]
Tech in transaction reporting: new ID rules and ESG changes
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AIFMD II and SEC reforms: what to expect in 2024
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Navigating new SEC rules, ESG deadlines, and AI developments
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Operations incorporating climate/ESG disclosures into your investment operations
As the first wave of UK large asset managers and asset owners publish their FCA mandated ESG SDR entity and product reports, lessons can be learnt from similar exercises in the EU.
Why integrating ESG data and analytics into your risk and performance ecosystem is critical to staying competitive
As sustainable finance disclosure regulations bring focus on ESG data and analytics, more data is becoming available for investors to assess companies’ performances. This in turn is placing additional pressure on firms to produce accurate reports at a greater and greater scale. Institutional asset managers, fund administrators, custodians, third-party providers – essentially any firm with […]
ESG Strategy: Think regulation, data, and budget
This blog was original published at Markets Media on October 7, 2022. Sustainable investing disclosures in the U.S. are currently governed by general fraud prohibitions in advertising and not by formally defined rules, apart from interpretive guidance issued by the SEC in 2010 about certain material impacts caused by climate change. In the absence of ESG regulations, investment managers […]
Charting a path to SFDR deadlines: Optimizing ESG and EET data collection, quality and reliability
The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is rapidly progressing towards the January 1, 2023 deadline, and the industry is in the process of managing and solving a variety of challenges. Here, we provide a brief timeline of the work that remains, discuss the challenges of the European ESG Template (EET) and ESG data, and the best ways […]
ESG regulations take hold in Europe with other regions set to follow
The EU’s comprehensive sustainable finance action plan aims to mandate that companies integrate sustainability risks into their investment management and disclosure processes, including their impact on the market environment. Its goals are to: Companies are regulated under the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) and soon the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), while financial products will be […]
Navigating ESG’s complex regulatory landscape
Amid growing demand from socially conscious investors, asset managers have worked tirelessly over the past decade to create ESG investment vehicles. While the pandemic heightened mainstream interest in ESG, the trend is projected to continue its acceleration as it has become widely recognized as a key value driver. With these developments, regulators the world over have naturally taken notice, […]