SJP Responsible business
At St. James's Place, we're committed to taking responsibility for our actions and strive to have a more positive impact on our people and communities.
Our responsible business work is core to delivering on our promise of helping our clients create the futures they want. From our work with local communities to minimising our environmental impact, we aim to make choices that promote the needs of everyone now, and in the future.
Our approach
We recognise that we have both the responsibility and the opportunity to help drive positive change by considering the long-term impact of our actions.
This requires us to look beyond ourselves and understand the wider societal and environmental impact of our choices. It means engaging with others and collaborating on solutions to the shared challenges faced by society today, supported by a deep understanding of the topics most material to us, the right processes to achieve success, and metrics that provide transparency on our progress.
We know that we might not always get it right and we can’t do it all, but we are committed to the journey and to making real progress.
We also know that we can’t tackle everything. Our responsible business framework helps us focus on the areas where we can have the greatest impact. These are: Financial wellbeing, investing our client's money responsibly, climate change and community impact.
Find out more about our approach and the progress we’re making here.
"Our decisions and actions as a business can make a lasting impact on people, communities and the world around us. We must do what we can to support better outcomes for all of our stakeholders."
Sandra Mould,Divisional Director Responsible Business
How we measure our progress
We want to make it easy for all our stakeholders to understand the work we’re doing and align to key external frameworks to help measure our progress:
- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs)
- Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
- Our Climate Report is fully compliant with the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures
Further information is set out in our Responsible Business report.
Financial wellbeing
As a UK financial advice business, we are committed to enhancing financial resilience and confidence in all our communities. From the expert advice our advisers give to clients and the support we provide our employees, to the charities we work with and the help we give to those most vulnerable in society - we’re working hard to improve people’s financial lives.
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Investing our clients' money responsibly
We are committed to offering our clients more positive options. We do this by embedding environmental, social and governance factors through our investment process, and engagement.
We are signatories of the UN supported Principles for Responsible Investment and collaborate with industry initiatives to encourage better sustainability practices and disclosure.
Responsible investing = ESG risks & opportunities + Engagement
The value of an investment with St. James’s Place will be directly linked to the performance of the funds you select and the value can therefore go down as well as up. You may get back less than you invested.
Climate change
We recognise the importance of supporting the transition to a lower-carbon economy and have set ourselves the goal of being net zero across the group by 2050.
Our strategy for achieving net zero includes being more efficient with our energy and resources; using data to identify initiatives that deliver the greatest impact; engaging people we work with closely on climate change to drive awareness, action and transparency; and embedding environmental considerations into our risk management, culture and governance.
For further information, please refer to:
- Documents in the environmental tab of ESG reporting hub
- Our responsible business report
We’re committed to becoming net zero across the group by 2050.
Community impact
Giving back to our communities has been a priority for us since day one. We want to create lasting value in the places we live and work, acting to make a difference to those less fortunate. We do this financially through the SJP Charitable Foundation, and by volunteering our time and skills in the local community, as well as through the delivery of our financial education programmes to young people.
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Our people and governance
Our responsibilities extend beyond these four key areas to others where we must also make sure we’re doing the right thing.
These are the fundamentals that we need to get right to enable our business to grow and function. They include people matters such as human rights, inclusion and diversity, policy influence, and client satisfaction and retention, to key issues of governance like data security, procurement, and risk management.
For further information, please refer to:
- Our responsible business report
- Inclusion and diversity webpage
- Corporate governance webpage
- Human rights and modern slavery
- View the St. James's Place Group Human Rights Policy
We are proud to work with the following organisations to help drive change:
