Be Inspired

With the heightened focus on ESG for publicly listed companies in the last couple of years, how have ESG-focused investment companies reacted to this change? In this episode of the Be Inspired series, LSEG’s Akhil Suresh talks to Stephen Lilley, Founding Partner of Schroders Greencoat. Stephen discusses how Greencoat Capital, which manages Greencoat UK Wind, the largest listed green infrastructure...

Finding a consumer-satisfying and sustainable alternative to animal agriculture seems like a huge task. Companies in the field of cellular agriculture have taken this task head on and are on track to commercialise this sector, not only with the production of meat but also seafood, dairy, eggs, leather, coffee, cotton and cocoa. But what exactly is cellular agriculture and how does it work?    In t...

In this episode of the Be Inspired series, LSEG’s Katya Gorbatiouk meets with Jeremy Rogers, Big Society Capital’s Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager of Schroders BSC Social Impact Trust. In their fascinating exchange, Jeremy discusses how the close relationship with Schroders and recent IPO has enabled Big Society Capital to scale by reaching a wide range of investors who are driven b...

LSEG’s Marcus Stuttard speaks to Dr Gordon Sanghera, CEO and Co-Founder of Oxford Nanopore Technologies, about the UK-based biotech company’s route to market and the benefits that has bought them, from credibility amongst global investors to attracting top talent. As the discussion uncovers, what really sets the business apart is their extraordinary clinical research and scalable technology soluti...

LSEG’s Neil Shah speaks to David Braben OBE, Frontier Development’s President and Founder, to discuss the videogame developer’s extraordinary rise from a Cambridge back-bedroom in 1982 to the world-leading studio it is today, developing titles including Elite, Formula 1 and Jurassic World. With Frontier’s share price rising almost 10-fold since its hotly anticipated IPO in 2014, David speaks candi...