Investment Research · ESG / SDR

The labels that close the greenwashing gap

The FCA's Sustainability Disclosure Requirements regime — four investment labels, an anti-greenwashing rule that already applies, and a consumer-facing disclosure expectation. The pieces here cover how it lands for a UK IFA recommending a sustainable-investing strategy.

SDR is the regime that gives a name to what a fund actually does on sustainability. Four labels — Sustainability Focus, Sustainability Improvers, Sustainability Impact, Sustainability Mixed Goals — plus the anti-greenwashing rule under FCA Principle 7. The pieces here cover the practical adviser-facing implications. Cluster sits inside Investment Research.

More content coming through Q3 2026 — the SDR-label decision tree, the suitability-narrative pattern for each label, and the anti-greenwashing review checklist.

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Beyond traditional portfolios — ETFs to crypto

A practitioner read on where adviser portfolios are widening and how the SDR labelling regime intersects with thematic and sustainability-oriented allocations.

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