Witan is committed to reporting on both our impact as a business, and the integration of our responsible investment strategy into our own, and our managers’, investment approaches. We believe reporting each year allows us and our shareholders to understand improvement in our portfolio.
Responsible investment in practice
As an investment trust with six employees in serviced offices in London, Witan itself has a small carbon footprint. Witan’s direct environmental impact consists of our energy, water and paper consumption, waste production, and the transport related to our commuting and business travel. We are taking steps to manage and disclose our environmental impacts.
Witan’s most significant impact on environmental, social and governance (‘ESG’) factors is via the companies we hold in our investment portfolio. Our investment portfolio is determined by the investment decisions of our external managers. We expect our managers to invest responsibly and to report regularly to us on ESG issues, while we in turn report on these issues annually to our shareholders.