Osmosis was recently awarded Best Specialist ESG Research at the ESG Investing Awards*. This recognition is particularly meaningful for our team, as it marks the first award received for our three-year Emerging Markets research project. The timing is especially fitting, as the culmination of this project recently launched in an Emerging Markets Core Equity strategy.
According to ESG Investing, this year’s awards had a record number of applications, so we are also honoured to be named runner-up for Best ESG Investment Fund – Global Equities, highlighting the continued strength of our Resource Efficiency approach.
Osmosis was established in 2009 with a clear conviction: sustainability would become a defining driver of long-term economic value. As environmental pressures intensified and global systems came under strain, we recognised a compelling opportunity to reallocate capital towards companies better equipped to thrive in a more resource-constrained and rapidly evolving world.
Emerging Markets (EM) have long posed a challenge for investors seeking credible, diversified sustainable exposure. Concerns around data availability and consistency have historically hindered the asset class, raising doubts about whether meaningful ESG integration is possible. Recognising the urgency and opportunity within the world’s most climate-critical economies, we set out to change this narrative.
Over the past three years, Osmosis has undertaken one of the most extensive research initiatives of its kind into EM corporate environmental data. A dedicated team collected, cleaned, extrapolated, and standardised carbon, water, and waste metrics across sectors. This effort brought quantitative rigour to markets often assumed to lack environmental transparency, enabling investors to understand climate risks such as outsourced emissions, water insecurity, and tightening waste regulation. Our findings challenge longheld assumptions about these emerging economies. Read more here.
The ESG Investing awards acknowledge company contributions within the UK pensions community and are assessed by a panel of judges. The news follows Osmosis’ win of Equities Manager of the Year at the Pensions Age Awards in the same week**.
Osmosis Investment Management UK Limited is the receiver of this award, and is referred to throughout as ‘Osmosis’.
*The ESG Investing Awards are free to applicants and open to financial institutions and vendors. This award relates to the annual period December 2024 to December 2025 and was awarded on 6 March 2026. ESG Investing independently provided Osmosis with a questionnaire to be used in the preparation of the third-party rating or award.
** The Pensions Age Awards are free to applicants and open to all UK pension scheme or provider firm which serves pension schemes in the UK. This award relates to the annual period October 2024 to October 2025 and was awarded on 3 March 2026. Pensions Age independently provided Osmosis with a questionnaire to be used in the preparation of the third-party rating or award.