Winton’s ESG efforts are developed and coordinated by a dedicated committee and include responsible investing, corporate social responsibility and diversity and inclusion.
Our approach to responsible investment spans industry engagement; asset selection and ownership; and accountability and implementation.
Corporate Social Responsibility Policy
We always consider our fiduciary obligations and operating our business in a responsible and ethical manner is core to our values.
Diversity and Inclusion Statement
We recognise the benefit that diversity, in its broadest sense, brings to our firm. Our goal is to attract a diverse mix of highly skilled individuals.
Key Partners
News and Recent Initiatives
Future Frontiers
Winton partnered with Future Frontiers, an award-winning education charity in 2022. The goal is to equip disadvantaged young people with skills to take steps into further education or training.
100 Women in Finance Networking Events
Our Abu Dhabi team is hosting quarterly 100 Women in Finance events to help expand networks and build connections among members at all career stages.
Winton Prizes for Academic Excellence
As a long-term supporter of statistical education and literacy, we are proud to sponsor the LSE'S Winton Prizes for Academic Excellence. A huge congratulations to 2022's winners.
A History of Philanthropy and CSR at Winton
Winton has a long tradition of supporting charitable initiatives, particularly those related to science and mathematics, and the firm’s Founder and CEO, David Harding, is a leading philanthropist through the David and Claudia Harding Foundation. The following timeline highlights key commitments made by either the Foundation or Winton Capital Management.
2023
2023
WF100 Lunch and Networking Events
Winton begins hosting quarterly 100 Women in Finance networking events in Abu Dhabi.
2022
July
2022
July
Climate prediction market gift
Winton and Hivemind's other shareholders have donated the AGORA prediction market platform to Lancaster University. The platform enables researchers to host expert prediction markets for climate-risk outcomes.
2022
June
2022
June
Partnership with Future Frontiers
Award-winning education charity working with schools and businesses across the UK to deliver career coaching, advice and guidance.
The goal is to equip lower-attaining, disadvantaged young people with the skills to realise their potential at school and take positive next steps into education or training at age 16.
2022
February
2022
February
Winton reintroduces commitment to double match employee donations during Ukraine crisis
2020
2020
Winton makes commitment to double match employee donations during pandemic
2019
2019
Harding Centre for Risk Literacy (Potsdam)
Continuing a decade of work educating the public in their understanding of risk.
2019
2019
University of Cambridge
The David and Claudia Harding Foundation gifted £100 million to the University of Cambridge, making it the largest single donation to a UK university by a British philanthropist.
2018
2018
Carbon Trust
Winton enters into an agreement with the Low Carbon Workplace Trust, which aims to deliver low-use carbon emissions based on improving the fabric of the building, deploying high-efficiency technologies to heat, cool and ventilate the space, and reducing operational energy consumption through sophisticated energy monitoring.
2017
2017
Winton Philanthropies becomes founding partner of Now Teach
2017
2017
Winton Women Trailblazers in Mathematics conference in partnership with Birkbeck University
Over 100 female students with outstanding mathematical capabilities from London's most deprived areas join the conference.
Talks from women who are trailblazers in mathematics and have gone on to work in multitude of exciting careers.
2016
2016
Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication
Working with institutions and individuals to improve the way that important evidence is presented to all of us.
2016
2016
Winton supports Women in STEM Campaign
2014
2014
The Science Museum Mathematics: The Winton Gallery
Mathematics: The Winton Gallery tells powerful stories about the work of mathematicians in the broadest sense, from salespeople to sailors, aircraft engineers to bankers, and gamblers to garden designers.
2014
2014
Winton becomes signatory to UN PRI
2014
2014
Over 20 charities receive grants from Winton
2013
2013
The Francis Crick Institute: Winton Bioinformatics Suite
Providing seed funding for one of the world's leading biomedical research institutes by funding Winton Bioinformatics Suite.
2013
2013
Winton's partnership with Birkberk University begins
Supporting academic prizes for work in statistics, and in 2016, supporting Winton Women in Science PhD Studentship.
2010
2010
Winton Fund for Physics of Sustainability at the Cavendish Laboratory
Donated £20 million to support research programmes that explores basic science which can generate the new technologies and new industries that will be needed to meet the demands of a growing population.
2009
2009
Harding Centre for Risk Literacy (Max Planck)
Helping people understand and assess the risks facing them with a primary focus on health and medicine.
2007
2007
Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy
Improves links between academics and policy makers, allowing the latter to make the best use of the available scientific evidence, and ensure that academics are better informed about the public policy.
2006
2006
Winton Professorship for the Public Understanding of Risk
Professorship held by Sir David Spiegelhalter and established within the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge to improve the way in which risk and statistical evidence are taught and discussed in society.