IB Green Minds #29: In conversation with Edward Dixon

This episode of the Green Minds podcast features Edward Dixon, Head of Responsible Investment for Aviva Investors’ Real Assets platform who leads the firm’s ESG and sustainability strategy across £50bn of real estate, infrastructure and nature-based solutions. This conversation starts with Ed sharing his journey from working as a carpenter who lost his job during the 2008 recession to managing a 50bn of real assets portfolio 21 years later, and how he stepped into sustainability. He then shares what ESG and responsible investment means for Aviva Investors, and why the climate change challenge requires a long-term perspective. This conversation also features: how to get a portfolio of real assets to net-zero, which regulations are most material for institutional real assets investors at the moment, why risk is key to undertsanding who can push the needle on climate change, and what it takes to become a senior manager in the sustainable finance world.