ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The EU SFDR regulation includes classification levels for sustainability-focused investment funds, including ‘Article 8’ funds that “promote environmental or social characteristics or a combination of those characteristics,” and the more stringent ‘Article 9’ funds, “which have sustainable investment as their objective.”

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 21, 2022

According to a position paper release by the Federal Council, financial products that feature a sustainability label will be required pursue at least one investment objective, in addition to their financial goals, to align with one or more specific sustainability goals, or to contribute to the achievement of specific sustainability goals.

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Environmental Finance

JANUARY 30, 2023

The CEO of Mirova has warned the European Commission not to become too "strict" in its definition of sustainable investment, or it will risk "killing" its Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

DESCRIPTION: This article first appeared in Sustainable Investment: [link]. Sustainability disclosure and client demand is fundamentally changing how fund management teams operate. For Article 9 funds, investment teams rarely get away with outsourcing such activity. By Ian Povey-Hall. SOURCE: Acre. Here's how.

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ESG Today

APRIL 30, 2024

Business and financial markets information service provider Bloomberg announced the launch of a new tool aimed at helping investors assess and screen portfolios, funds and indices based customized sustainability criteria and thresholds, available on the Bloomberg Terminal.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 13, 2023

In response to accusations of greenwashing and growing regulatory scrutiny, a group of high-powered financial networks is working to standardize the often-opaque jargon of the responsible investing industry. The value of global sustainable investment assets jumped from US$23 trillion in 2016 to US$35 trillion in 2020.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Industry bodies align on key sustainable finance-related definitions to offer end-users greater “consistency and clarity”. Each definition includes a detailed explanation, a list of definitions from organisations that served as the primary inputs, and additional guidance for utilising these definitions in practice.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Market participants flag importance of double materiality to enhance Article 8/9 definition alignment, stress need to recognise transition strategies. Risk of uncertainty French asset manager Mirova’s response said the current definition of Article 8 products is “too broad”, while the definition of Article 9 is “too narrow”.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Sustainable Index and EFT methodology enables index and ETF providers to build, define and/or market products that fall within the European Union’s definition of Sustainable Investment, outlined in Article 2(17) of the SFDR.

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Impakter

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There are a lot of questions and doubts about its definition. How does it differentiate from sustainable finance? How impact and sustainable investing could fit into it? What Is Green Finance and Why Does it Matter so Much? What is green finance? What countries are the best for green finance? What is green finance?

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Chris Hall

MAY 9, 2024

But many respondents – including Eurosif – find it insufficiently clear in defining key terms and acknowledge it is used as a de facto labelling regime.” French asset manager Mirova’s response to the commission’s consultation suggested the current definition of Article 8 products was too broad, and the Article 9 definition was “too narrow”.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 25, 2023

Further, funds with a carbon reduction objective under Article 9 can be actively managed and don’t have to passively track EU PABs/CTBs. Further, funds with a carbon reduction objective under Article 9 can be actively managed and don’t have to passively track EU PABs/CTBs.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2024

ESMA has now declared that era to be over, with new guidelines and thresholds including a minimum of 80% of investments to meet funds’ environmental or social characteristics, or sustainable investment objectives.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

Sustainable investing is changing global supply chains: 4 key takeaways. Sustainable investing strategies have ascended quickly in the last 10 years. Morgan Global Equity Research estimated that the sustainable investing market is expected to reach $45 trillion in assets under management (AUM) by the end of the year.

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Environmental Finance

JANUARY 26, 2023

Industry experts have welcomed the UK Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) proposed Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and sustainable investment labels - but voiced concern at the potential impact of some of its definitions.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Difficulties in definition continue to thwart efforts to demonstrate the financial benefits of sustainable investments. Sustainable fund flows attracted US$37 billion of net new money in Q4 2022, with global sustainable fund assets reaching a total of US$2.5

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

According to Morningstar, the platform recognizes a wide set of investors’ motivations and preferences regarding ESG investing, ranging from risk avoidance to contribution to sustainable impact. Investable World also provides investors with access to research-driven investment education resources across each of the key themes.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Proposed sustainable investment thresholds risk divergence from SFDR. Market participants have called for a delay to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) draft rules for sustainability and ESG fund labels until there is more clarity on terminology and interoperability with existing disclosure standards.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 2, 2023

Prop osed compromises will limit investors’ ability to make “critical” sustainable investment decisions. The European Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif) has urged investors to call on the European Commission to reconsider proposed changes that would weaken the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 15, 2022

MIM to expand sustainable investing solutions for institutional clients. December 15, 2022 /3BL Media/ MetLife Investment Management (MIM) , the institutional asset management business of MetLife, Inc. Goulart, president of MIM and executive vice president and chief investment officer for MetLife. SOURCE: MetLife, Inc.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Mazzacurati noted that the introduction of SFDR did lead to more extensive disclosure in investment fund documentation concerning ESG characteristics or sustainable investment objectives.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

One such, unheard of a few short years ago, is “greenwashing”, the practice of dressing up products, services or investments as being in full conformity with ESG principles – in contradiction of the underlying reality. That may be a factor, but the real issue is the difficulty in defining sustainable investments.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 6, 2023

Until the European Commission clarifies its definition of ‘sustainable investment’ under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) , asset managers will continue to exercise caution in their compliance with disclosure requirements for Article 9-labelled funds, including resorting to increased reclassifications. .

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In the draft guidance, which is open to feedback until 20 February 2023, the financial market regulator has said that any EU-domiciled fund with an ESG-related or impact-related label must meet an 80% sustainable investment threshold. Clouded definitions . Minimum safeguards will also apply to funds using exclusion criteria.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2023

At the time of speaking to EIOPA, 21 NCAs had not identified occurrences of greenwashing “due to resourcing constraints, low supply of products with sustainability features, and because the relevant sustainable finance requirements are new or not fully in force”.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

1 Seventy percent of investors in full- or part-time jobs would probably or definitely include sustainable funds in their 401(k)s if offered by their employers’ plans. assets was either in sustainable investments or tied to ESG practices, 3 with assets set to surge from $35 trillion to $50 trillion in the next three years.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 22, 2023

The amount of these pension funds’ actual investments labelled as “sustainable” rose to $276 billion in 2021, up from just $163 billion a year earlier. The dashboard shows that sustainable investments composed nearly 13% of the pension funds’ total assets of $2.2 trillion, versus just 7% of $2.1

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Chris Hall

MARCH 27, 2023

The European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) advisory group has warned against sanctioning ‘greenbleaching’, with industry experts calling for ESMA to provide more “legal certainty” around existing sustainable finance regulation and terminology to reduce greenwashing risk.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

The global investment community is walking a “tightrope” between greenwashing and green blushing as it strives to stay abreast of regulatory developments that continuously ramp up accountability on sustainable investing, industry sources have sad. That pace of change is here to stay.”

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Another significant change in the guidelines is the introduction of a new category for transition-related terms, which would not apply the fossil-fuel related PAB exclusions, while retaining the 80% investment threshold.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Additional clarifications about the definition of a sustainable investment and about Article 8 and Article 9 classifications are expected soon, but in the meantime, caution and thorough due diligence remains key,” said Hortense Bioy, Global Director of Sustainable Research at Morningstar. Lack of definition.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

However, there is always room for improvement, even among these leaders, and especially when it comes to disclosing specifics in their sustainable financing commitments. Finally, we ’ d be clear on which definitions were being used and which taxonomy the definitions were derived from.” .

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

Water is one of the nine themes that make up the sustainable investment philosophy at Essex. However, William Page, portfolio manager at Essex Investment Management Company, pointed out the other eight themes are all closely connected to water as well. . Essex: Water is an expression of climate change at a local level.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2023

Article 9 funds are considered the most sustainable, requiring portfolios with 100 per cent sustainable investments. The advantages of Article 9 funds lie in their ability to provide clear signals to investors regarding their commitment to sustainability.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 23, 2023

And significantly, market participants warn EU’s beleaguered Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) could overlap, and potentially conflict with, ESMA’s plans for labelling rules. ESMA said it would be open to other ways to define a sustainable investment, such as those included in MiFID II.

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Jon Hale

APRIL 29, 2022

But it doesn’t seem to reflect what the exact same investors on the survey actually think about sustainable investing. The Schwab UK survey prompted me to look for similar evidence on what individual investors in the United States think about sustainable investing. About half of U.S. respondents? About half of U.S.

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