Quilter sustainability score: 34/100
Better than 48% of Financial Services / Banking
Making progress starts at 46. The highest score on SINK is 71.
Quilter is a UK wealth manager whose businesses include the Quilter Cheviot discretionary investment manager, the Quilter investment platform, Quilter Investors funds and financial planning advice. It reported £733 million of fee and other service income for 2025, with about 3,150 employees.
Founded 2007Head office London, United KingdomStaff ~3,147 (2025)Revenue £733M fee income and other income from service activities (FY2025, IFRS); IFRS total income £9,364M includes £8,607M investment return, mostly on policyholder assetsWebsite ↗
Quilter has cut its own Scope 1 and 2 emissions sharply and has PwC assurance over them, but the financed emissions it reports for its Affluent and High Net Worth investments rose in 2025 and it has no target to reduce them. It publishes no group financed-emissions total, its supplier engagement starts in 2026, and it has no SBTi validation or nature footprint.
Quilter scores 34/100 (Below expectations) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. Last verified November 2026.
That places Quilter joint 622nd of 1,055 companies scored, and joint 30th of 66 in Financial Services / Banking.
What is Quilter doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Transparency & Accountability (8/10, 7/10). Weakest on Water Impact and Nature & Biodiversity Impact (2/10, 3/10).
Where Quilter lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
What would raise this score
- Its effect on waterMonitor its water use and take measures to reduce it.
- Its effect on natureAssess its effect on nature and publish a basic environmental policy.
- How it uses materials and handles wasteShow active waste reduction, reuse or repair.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations8/10No verified figures published with their method and a falling trend.
- Emissions from its supply chain6/10No full value-chain map or supplier engagement programme.
- Whether its emissions are falling4/10No evidence of a year-on-year fall in its total emissions.
- How clean its energy is6/10Less than 90% of its energy shown to be renewable.
- Its effect on nature3/10No assessment of its effect on nature, and no basic environmental policy.
- How it uses materials and handles waste3/10No active waste reduction, reuse or repair shown.
- Its effect on water2/10No monitoring of water use, or no measures to reduce it.
- Its climate targets4/10Its targets aren't science-based or committed to the Science Based Targets initiative.
- How openly it reports7/10No annual impact report, or no pay linked to climate targets.
- Its record on controversies5/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is Quilter's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleWhat evidence is Quilter's score based on?
8 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
50% of them were published by Quilter itself; the rest come from independent sources.
“Global total 681* 1,210 3,245”
“Our Scope 1 and 2 emissions in 2025 were 79% lower than our 2020 baseline”
“we assess the investments we make by a range of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors”
“in an attempt to develop the firm’s investment climate action plan and work toward achieving its net zero target.”
“Quilter Cheviot is set to rename its Climate Assets fund range as part of taking on the ‘Sustainability Focus’ label”
“REITs have made significant strides in ESG-related disclosures, but there is still room for improvement.”
“it was "highly unusual" for the watchdog to have not imposed any financial penalty after its investigation.”
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How does Quilter compare with other financial services / banking companies?
Where Quilter sits among financial services / banking peers.
Among the 66 major financial services / banking brands we've scored, Quilter is tied =30th of 66, with 5 others.
Who scores higher in Financial Services / Banking?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above Quilter.
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See the breakdown →Octopus Group does not publish the emissions it finances on the standard PCAF basis, so the financial-sector size deduction applies; the figure it gives, about 242,000 tCO2e, halved mainly because £2.8 billion of funds moved to another manager.
See the breakdown →Barclays operates with operational emissions under control but finances fossil fuels at scale—$34–35bn annually—undercutting climate commitments.
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