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17 July 2025 4 mins

Don't roll back the clock on audit oversight

Robust and independent audit is one of our key stewardship priorities. We seek to promote accounting practices that support long-term capital preservation and value creation. That means ensuring prudence to prevent overstatement, and maintain transparency around capital strength to help contain excessive risk-taking...

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3 July 2025 < 1 min

Shaping the future of ethical AI

At Sarasin, we believe investors have both the responsibility and the influence to shape a safer AI future. Through persistent engagement, coalition-building and public advocacy, we will continue to push for ethical AI, ensuring technology serves society, not the other way around.

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17 April 2025 < 1 min

Why stewardship matters more than ever

As we are witnessing across many industries, the ripple effects from President Trump’s return to the White House are global. In asset management, proclamations of sustainability or net zero are being scrubbed from marketing material with little sign of regret. To some, it seems sustainability was often a convenient pastime that has run its course.

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2 May 2024 5 mins

Equinor and Norway: can they turn Paris promises into action?

On May 14, shareholders in Norwegian oil and gas major Equinor will be given a vote on whether the company should increase the pace of its low-carbon transition. The shareholder resolution asks the Board to ensure Equinor’s strategy and investment plans are consistent with the Paris Agreement goals....

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11 April 2024 2 mins

The devil’s in the detail: spotting climate winners and losers

We get to know our companies comprehensively. When it comes to climate change, we use a proprietary, forward-looking approach to weighing individual companies’ prospects as the world warms. Active investment managers spend a lot of time assessing the outlook for individual companies. But when it comes to estimating...

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27 March 2024 2 mins

Net Zero – the upside

In a Q&A session at Sarasin & Partners’ 2024 Spring Seminars, Natasha Landell-Mills, Partner and Head of Stewardship and Ben McEwen, Climate Analyst discussed progress towards net zero and its often-overlooked investment upside. There can be little doubt that climate change is one of the biggest threats we...

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