{"id":99547,"date":"2026-08-08T02:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/99547\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:02:11","slug":"sustainable-funds-turn-positive-after-5-quarters-of-outflows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/99547\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable funds turn positive after 5 quarters of outflows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in more than a year, sustainable fund flows returned to positive territory in the second quarter of 2026. <\/p>\n<p>A report from LSEG Lipper, published this week, showed there were flows of \u00a3173mn in the quarter following five consecutive quarters of net redemptions. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftadviser.com\/esg-investing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable flows<\/a> were led by bonds adding \u00a3604mn in the quarter.<\/p>\n<p> Equities remained the largest drag with \u00a3452mn of outflows.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half of 2026, institutional investors allocated \u00a31.25bn to sustainable funds which offset \u00a3860mn of retail redemptions<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/51258ae3-30b2-4b08-b1f1-b152ec9c2860.png\" alt=\"The latest sustainable fund flows from LSEG Lipper\" data-type=\"Image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    Sustainable Asset Class AUM, 2017 to June 2026 (\u00a3bn)\u00a9 LSEG Lipper<\/p>\n<p>The report said: \u201cEquity funds remained the largest source of redemptions, losing \u00a3452mn, although this was less than half Q1\u2019s \u00a31.11bn outflow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMixed-assets funds also stayed in negative territory, with \u00a3233mn redeemed, compared with \u00a3559mn in Q1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommodity funds recorded a modest \u00a32mn outflow. Combined positive contributions of \u00a3860mn therefore outweighed \u00a3687mn of redemptions across equity, mixed assets and commodities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3b31d1f0-4830-4244-b8e5-818a7597cd2d.png\" alt=\"Chart of 5 year quarterly flows \" data-type=\"Image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    Five-year quarterly flows, to Q2 2026\u00a9 LSEG Lipper<br \/>\n                Ask FT Adviser<\/p>\n<p class=\"miso-questions-disclaimer\">BETA feature \u2014 this feature is still being tested and developed<\/p>\n<p>Five consecutive negative quarters came to an end this year, though the Q2 total \u201cremained modest\u201d compared with the positive quarters before 2025. <\/p>\n<p>The report also broke down flows into sustainability disclosure requirement (SDR-labelled) funds. <\/p>\n<p>It marks two years since the labels were rolled out by the Financial Conduct Authority. <\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/153650f5-edd3-45fb-bf2c-b66124616698.png\" alt=\"Graph of flows into SDR-labelled funds\" data-type=\"Image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    SDR Categories AUM June 2026 (\u00a3bn)\u00a9 LSEG Lipper<\/p>\n<p>LSEG Lipper recorded \u00a340.32bn in SDR-labelled funds at end-June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Of this figure, the Sustainability Focus label accounted for 85.5 per cent of the total with \u00a334.47bn. <\/p>\n<p>tara.o\u2019connor@ft.com<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s your view?<\/p>\n<p>Have your say in the comments section below or email us: ftadviser.newsdesk@ft.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in more than a year, sustainable fund flows returned to positive territory in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21266],"tags":[5483,22834,9581,11151],"class_list":["post-99547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london-stock-exchange-group","tag-ft-adviser","tag-investments","tag-london-stock-exchange-group","tag-lseg"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117057430766517012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}