Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study 2023

Financing the future: sovereigns’ strategies for accelerating the energy transition

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Digital assets: a disruptive technology gathering momentum

Energy supply chains

Geopolitical tensions and climate change highlight the need for secure, sustainable energy supply chains, elevating renewables in investors’ priorities.

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Alignment with objectives

Sovereign funds and central banks favour direct green infrastructure investments and green bond allocations to align with their objectives.

Green bonds

To tackle greenwashing, investors adopt a proactive stance, embracing development risks and issuing green bonds, ensuring genuine ESG alignment.

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2023 Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study

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Invesco provides a broad range of ESG-related capabilities that help our clients express their values through their investments while meeting their investment objectives.

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Diverse commitments to ESG

Our investment strategies and styles vary in their approach to ESG implementation. This is underpinned by external research and a global team of experts working alongside our investment teams. We have the capabilities to manage ESG solutions depending on client need.

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Tools and innovation

Invesco ESGintel is a proprietary tool built by our Global ESG research team in collaboration with our Technology Strategy Innovation and Planning (SIP) team. It provides environmental, social, and governance (ESG) insights, metrics, data points, and direction of change. 

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  • The value of investments and any income will fluctuate (this may partly be the result of exchange rate fluctuations) and investors may not get back the full amount invested.

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Footnotes

  • 1 McKinsey & Co as at June 2022. “Value creation in the metaverse: The real business of the virtual world”, page 6. McKinsey & Co is a global management consulting firm.

    2 Citi Research as at March 2022. “Metaverse and Money: Decrypting the Future”, page 12. The ‘total addressable market’ (the overall revenue opportunity that is available to a product or service. A device-agnostic Metaverse would be accessible via personal computers, game consoles and smartphones, resulting in a large ecosystem. Using this broad definition, total Metaverse users would number around five billion.

    3 The compound annual growth rate, or CAGR, measures the average annual growth rate of an investment over a period of several years.