Responsible investing accounted for around 26 percent of the £7.7 trillion of assets managed by members of the Investment Association (IA), according to Investment Management in the UK 2018-2019, the latest of its annual surveys of the UK investment market sector.

A greater emphasis on responsible investment strategies together with growth of investment strategies involving private markets are two of the trends identified as assuming much greater importance in the UK investment management sector.

Definitional problems make it extremely challenging to provide a definitive estimate of the volume of assets under ...