Investments

The University of Sheffield holds no shares in any companies involved in the extraction of fossil fuels. ​The University believes that to accord with its values when investing its funds, regard must be made to social, environmental, sustainability and governance issues.

The University’s endowment investment policy seeks to eliminate exposure to explicit environmental damage by excluding companies that are classified as oil and gas producers (exploration for, drilling, production, refining, supply, distribution, retail sales) or those that supply oil equipment, services or distribution. The University has been compliant with this definition since introducing its policy in 2015.

The University's endowment investment policy also seeks to eliminate exposure to the following areas:

• explicit environmental damage
• manufacture or sale of armaments
• the manufacture of tobacco products
• the sale of tobacco products (where the investment is in companies that derive more than 10% of their revenue from selling tobacco products)
• the manufacture of non-pharmaceutical products that are being tested on animals for cosmetic or other non-medical purposes

Our Endowment Investment Policy sets out these criteria and our annual compliance statement shows how we have been meeting these commitments. Our annual impact report shows how our funds are being used in a socially positive way.