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Sustainability

Sustainable Financial Planning

Seeking positive change and financial returns are no longer deemed to be mutually exclusive. At Leading Edge we believe consideration of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors to simply mean good quality. Additional data points offer greater insight into the risks and opportunities of an investment. It’s increasingly being seen as good practice by investors to consider these non-financial aspects when seeking positive financial returns.

The popular misconception is that the main purpose of ESG investing is to save the planet, but in reality it provides a more rounded picture of the long-term resilience of companies.

Environmental

Producing more output with less natural resources, energy, water, waste, and pollution. Environmental considerations include: air and water pollution, biodiversity and deforestation, emissions, energy efficiency, waste management, water scarcity. By scrutinising companies environmental impact you mitigate the risk of companies incurring financial penalties or reputational damage, through causing harm to the environment.

Social

Social engagement improves relations with key stakeholders: employees, customers, suppliers. By analysing customer satisfaction, community relations, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, human rights and labour standards - and not just financials - better quality companies are identified. Firms with strong social engagement attract and retain talent and customers, and experience less supply chain issues - all key to weathering short-term market fluctuations.

Governance

Reduces risk through effective decision making, political involvement and strong ethics, board oversight and risk controls. Key considerations are: audit committee structure, board composition, bribery and corruption, executive compensation, lobbying activities and political contributions. Corporate malpractice results in both financial penalties and reputational damage, impacting market capitalisation.

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Behind the scenes

As well as ensuring our portfolios operate sustainably, at Leading Edge we strive to operate as sustainably as possible too. We were founded with a clear vision to embrace technology and banish paper. We are proud that all our processes and workflows are entirely paperless. However, being digital isn’t without its pitfalls for the environment, extra care has been taken in ensuring that all the third-party services we employ also prioritise minimising their impact.

Our website, APIs and Apps are protected by Cloudflare. 100% of Cloudflare's global operations is powered by renewable energy.

We use Fathom Analytics as our website analytics software. Unlike Google Analytics, it does not exploit user data and places your privacy first. They also donate 2% of their gross revenue to fund next-generation carbon removal technologies.

Github, our code hosting platform has been carbon neutral since 2019 and they are committed to using 100% renewable energy by 2025.

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