Oakley Capital: reporting responsibly

This is far more than just another microsite. Oakley Capital have produced a truly digital-first Responsible Investment report which demonstrates how complex information can be distilled into a digestible and easy to follow format that allows for intuitive navigation and enhanced readability.

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This is far more than just another microsite. Oakley Capital have produced a truly digital-first Responsible Investment report which demonstrates how complex information can be distilled into a digestible and easy to follow format that allows for intuitive navigation and enhanced readability.

Oakley Capital partners with ambitious founders and management teams to invest in outstanding mid-market businesses across the technology, consumer, education and business services sectors. Oakley have raised over €12.7 billion across nine funds, backed over 40 businesses and completed more than 150 bolt-on acquisitions. They published their first Responsible Investment report in PDF format in 2021, and this year have opted to go full-digital.

Oakley Capital actively monitors and steers sustainability performance across its expansive portfolio of businesses, in addition to mitigating its own, relatively smaller, impacts. This year, preparations got underway for Oakley’s portfolio companies to report against the forthcoming CSRD framework, beginning with a ‘double materiality’ exercise, which would generate significant amounts of new data.

 

Oakley Capital actively monitors and steers sustainability performance across its expansive portfolio of businesses, in addition to mitigating its own, relatively smaller, impacts. This year, preparations got underway for Oakley’s portfolio companies to report against the forthcoming CSRD framework, beginning with a ‘double materiality’ exercise, which would generate significant amounts of new data.

 

Significant CSRD-related changes necessitated a restructuring of the Responsible Investment report, with the environmental, social and governance sections offering considerably more in-depth insight this year.

 

It is estimated that 75% of stakeholders rely solely on their mobile phone to access digital information. Oakley’s report is compatible with all screen sizes, and retains its interactive features on all devices.

 

The report was published simultaneously across digital and PDF formats from a single source of content. Despite this impressive achievement, there were minimal changes made to the reporting process itself, thanks to use of the next-generation design software ‘Reportl’. This software allows the Oakley team to seamlessly collaborate on content, design and editing throughout the process.

 

Although Oakley’s Responsible Investment report may appear at first glance to be just another microsite, under the bonnet is a unique new process which enables this online report to include fully accessible XBRL tagging. This means that Oakley are already completely ready to implement the forthcoming CSRD taxonomy.

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