Brooks Macdonald Annual Report and Accounts 2025

Strategic Report

Governance Report

Financial Statements

Company Financial Statements

Potential impacts for the Group

Estimated time horizon

Physical Risks

Acute Investments: Portfolio companies may face increased capital costs due to damage to infrastructure, increased insurance premiums, supply chain disruptions and impacted access to resources such as clean water. Short Medium Long Operations: Buildings and supply chains are impacted by extreme weather and extreme heat caused by climate change. This could result in water shortages, limited employee travel, office inaccessibility and power outages that affect service delivery. Medium Long Chronic I nvestments: Long-term shifts in climatic patterns may have wide-ranging impacts on the global economy and geopolitical tensions, leading to increased operational costs and potential disruption to commercial activity. Long

Table of opportunities

Potential implication for the Group

Estimated time horizon

Products and services Investment propositions: Increased reputation, market share and revenues from capitalising on shifting.

Short Medium

Resource efficiency Operations: Opportunity to reduce operating costs by ensuring offices are more energy efficient and reducing waste emissions.

Short Medium

Markets Investments: Opportunity for underlying investments to diversify activities and access new markets, increasing reputation and revenue from newly identified low-carbon investment opportunities.

Short Medium Short Medium

Investment propositions: Opportunity to develop and expand propositions to meet current and future client needs.

Energy source Operations: Opportunity to reduce the Group’s operating costs by purchasing electricity from renewable sources.

Short Medium

Resilience Operations: If the Group applies measures to mitigate against the negative impacts of a transition towards a low-carbon economy, and implements climate-related adaptation measures, this could lead to increased organisational resilience. Short Medium

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