Krystle Higgins
Krystle is IPE’s London-based senior reporter and splits her time reporting between IPE and its sister publication Impact Investor.
Before joining IPE Krystle worked as a financial journalist covering investment trends, and ESG. She was highly commended at the Headline Money Awards for Rising Star of the Year (B2B financial journalism).
She previously worked as a regional breaking news reporter for a daily newspaper.
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- editorial@ipe.com
NewsPensions UK revises voting guidelines to strengthen expectations
Three themes emerged as having particular relevance for 2026: capital issuance, nature and biodiversity, and cyber risk governance
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Professor Alex Edmans urges investors to abandon box-ticking DEI and adopt a performance-driven PSI framework instead
NewsIPE Conference 2025: Financial sector over-extended on climate transition, says KLP
Speakers discussed how to navigate green ambitions amid pushback, policy gaps – and progress
NewsFour major investor groups join good governance campaign
The campaign will focus engagement on the Draft Audit Reform and Corporate Governance Bill
NewsNon-sustainability funds expected to dominate EU market after SFDR overhaul
Morningstar suggests SFDR overhaul will sharply reduce sustainability-labelled funds, with Article 6 products set to dominate the EU market
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UK-based Local Authority Pension Fund Forum urges oil giant to justify increased exploration and capex amid warnings its future projects are increasingly uncompetitive
NewsXPS Group downgrades asset managers over weak climate pledges
Consultancy said asset managers should have clear firm-level targets to manage climate change “as a systemic issue”
NewsUKSIF warns climate risk, net-zero are missing from UK pension review
UKSIF chief James Alexander urges the UK Pensions Commission to put climate risk and net zero transition at the centre of its review of the UK pensions system
NewsDiversity Project seeks new name amid rising DEI backlash
Baroness Helena Morrissey, chair of the Diversity Project, says ‘It’s time to reframe and depoliticise the discussion and to reclaim our original intention’
AnalysisTNFD to stop work as ISSB kicks off standard-setting on nature
Also: IIGCC to launch new investor deforestation platform to build on momentum of COP26-launched FSDA
NewsCorporate biodiversity-linked greenwashing cases triple in 2025
RepRisk report warns that greenwashing is becoming a repeat offence in some sectors
Special ReportPass-through voting gains traction
Pass-through voting has been on the rise as asset owners take up opportunities to have more control, but will it strengthen sustainable outcomes or could it weaken collective impact?
NewsNet Purpose buys asset owner SDG platform, combining $40trn in sustainable assets
SDI AOP’s founding asset owners – APG, PGGM, AustralianSuper and BCI – will remain involved in governance and methodology oversight
NewsSouth Yorkshire fund commits £525m to climate, impact strategies
The local authority is investing £350m in Border to Coast Climate Opportunities Fund and a further £175m in renewables and natural capital investments
NewsESG study authors clarify findings after retraction calls
Famous paper showing the financial benefits of sustainability has come under fire from fellow academic
NewsInvestors urge FTSE 100 companies to continue with climate strategy AGM votes
Signatories of letter to company chairs are concerned about retreat from offering shareholder votes on climate strategies
NewsChurch of England fund prioritises peacebuilding, human rights in new strategy
CEPB is establishing a Global Centre for Peacebuilding and Business to help investors play a constructive role in reconciliation and sustainable development
NewsGIIN Forum 2025: Pension funds now supply 35% of impact capital
Institutional impact allocations have soared since 2019, according to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
NewsRailpen targets real-world impact in updated net zero plan
Plus: London Pensions Fund Authority announces change to stewardship approach in latest responsible investment report
NewsPension funds join call for EU to uphold methane regulation
€4.5trn group – which includes AP3, NEST, Railpen and Church of England Pensions Board – expresses concern methane rules could get caught up in the bloc’s simplification agenda
