ESG Today

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Investment management firm Fidelity International announced today the expansion of its sustainability team with two new senior hires, including Phil Cliff, joining from M&G Investments, and Aaron Hay, from Federated Hermes, as Directors, Sustainable Investing.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Natixis Investment Managers today announced that it has appointed Laura Kaliszewski to the newly created role of Global Head of Client Sustainable Investing. Kaliszewski joined Natixis IM in 2020 and has been serving as Head of Sustainable Investment Solutions.

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ESG Today

JUNE 6, 2023

Global wealth and asset manager Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) and sustainability-focused system designer and developer Systemiq announced today a new partnership to launch holistiQ Investment Partners, a new sustainable investing platform within LOIM.

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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

MAY 23, 2023

David Helgerson, Managing Director and Co-Head of Impact at Hamilton Lane said: “Across our sustainable investment platform we are seeing a broad and diverse spectrum of investment opportunities in companies that offer compelling economic solutions to the problems of the world today.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

Investment management firm Fidelity International announced today a new focused sustainable investment approach, targeting four systemic themes, including nature loss, climate change, strong and effective governance, and social disparities, which will drive the firm’s engagement approach towards influencing positive change.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 5, 2021

Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha is pleased to partner with Sustainable Research and Analysis LLC to provide timely market snapshots of trends and developments affecting. The post Sustainable investing strategies account for 30% of all SPACs appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Paris-based asset management firm, Carmignac, announced today the appointment of Lloyd McAllister as Head of Sustainable Investment. McAllister said: “Carmignac is well known for its bold approach and, as a family business, a long-term mindset putting sustainability at the core of its investment approach.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the organizations, the new resource follows significant growth in recent years in investor interest in ESG issues, driving a proliferation of investment products and practices, but also leading to new terminology that can be unclear or inconsistent.

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ESG Today

JULY 11, 2022

Investment giant BlackRock has made a series of appointments to its BlackRock Sustainable Investing (BSI) team, according to an internal memo seen by ESG Today, including the hiring of Lombard Odier’s Head of Sustainable Investment Research & Strategy as Deputy Head of BSI.

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ESG Today

MARCH 21, 2024

Alongside the appointment of Grant, Aviva announced two additional hires for its Real Assets Responsible Investment team, including Elizabeth Ortiz as an Associate, and Jeremy Ho as an Analyst.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

BlackRock Global Head of Sustainable Investing Paul Bodnar announced that he will be departing the firm, to join the Bezos Earth Fund. BlackRock has changed the way the financial sector thinks about sustainability. The fund has provided over 100 grants to date, allocating more than $1.6

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3BL Media

JULY 21, 2022

Tweet me: @NorthernTrust shares an open letter from Julie Moret, Global Head of Sustainable Investing and Stewardship. KEYWORDS: NASDAQ:NTRS, Northern Trust, esg investment. For the Northern Trust Asset Management entities included in AUM total, please see disclosure at end of this document. Read it here: [link].

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 15, 2021

Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha is pleased to partner with Sustainable Research and Analysis to provide timely market snapshots of trends and developments affecting the sustainable investing. The post Legislation aims to boost sustainable investing options in pension plans appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 14, 2020

Join Tideline’s Christina Leijonhufvud and impact investors Nuveen, LeapFrog Investments and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for an inside look at best practices in impact management. The Operating Principles for Impact Management, introduced a year ago by the International Finance Corp., have emerged as the.

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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

JULY 18, 2022

UK-based investment company abrdn announced today the transition of three SICAV funds, including its flagship Asia Pacific Equity Fund, to sustainable investment products classified as Article 8 (products promoting environmental or social characteristics) under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation.

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

Asset owners need to demonstrate more flexibility and innovation in their approach to sustainable investing, according to leading asset owners speaking at the Alpha Summit event hosted by the CFA Institute this week. . The fifth edition of the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance’s biennial review highlighted that US$35.2

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 6, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including Carmignac , NBIM, Chronos Sustainability, RBC BlueBay, the IA and EQ Investors. French asset manager Carmignac has appointed Lloyd McAllister as Head of Sustainable Investment.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 9, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including OTPP, IOSCO, Legal & General, AXA IM, Persefoni and UKSIF. . Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board has appointed Anna Murray as Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable Investing.

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Jon Hale

JULY 26, 2022

Sustainability Matters More capital is needed to address climate change and other sustainability issues. Sustainable investing can be a win-win for emerging-markets investors. It can be impactful, playing an important role in allocating capital to address climate change and other sustainability issues.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

European market infrastructure provider Euronext announced the launch of a series of ESG tools and sustainable finance-focused initiatives, including making issuers’ non-financial data available on its website.

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ESG Today

MARCH 18, 2024

The new hire follows LOIM’s launch last year of holistiQ Investment Partners , a new sustainable investing platform within LOIM, aimed at capturing sustainable transition investment opportunities, with a focus on the transformation of key economic systems such as energy, land and oceans, and materials.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

IPR, which was commissioned by the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2018, stressed that policy is “central to any scale up” in the development of clean energy technologies. The post Policy Paramount in Driving DACCS Development appeared first on ESG Investor.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 2, 2022

Composed of senior representatives representing the firm’s diverse business functions — and, in turn, the breadth of our clients’ needs — the committee members include equity and bond research analysts, portfolio managers, and ESG and sustainable investing specialists. Additionally, risk professionals from EMEA and the U.S.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The European Investment Bank is on a new strategy to unlock $1.1 trillion for climate finance and sustainable investment over the next decade.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 29, 2022

Incorporating welfare into investors’ wider environmental strategies and engagements is challenging but necessary, says Robert Black, Manager, Responsible Investment, Chronos Sustainability. The post Is Farm Animal Welfare a Sustainable Investment Blind Spot? appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

France’s financial market regulator, The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) announced the results of a pair of studies into retail investors’ perceptions and expectations of responsible or sustainable financial products.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 8, 2024

Originally published in Northern Trust's 2022 Sustainability Report ASSET MANAGEMENT BUSINESS Throughout 2022, Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) continued to expand its sustainable investment solutions with the launch of a variety of innovative pooled vehicles for global investors.

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3BL Media

APRIL 12, 2024

It also details the tools we’ve developed to help investors assess, disclose and manage climate-related modern slavery risks. These structures require careful evaluation but may help indebted developing countries protect their vulnerable ecosystems. From an ESG perspective, investing in sovereign emerging-market debt can feel messy.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Private banking and asset management company Edmond de Rothschild announced today the appointment of Nathalie Wallace as Chief Sustainability Officer. She is a highly qualified professional who will strongly contribute to the further development of our ESG strategy, to which we have long been committed.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2023

Through this period, the top-quintile companies on sustainable investment posted median annual returns of 14% – vs just 2% a year for the MSCI ACWI. “Most investors used a diversified stock portfolio [such as the ACWI] to shelter their capital and hope for growth,” says Heaps. “Now

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ESG Today

JANUARY 28, 2024

This week in ESG news: EU lawmakers agree to delay sustainability reporting standards for specific sectors, non-EU companies; HSBC launches net zero transition plan; BlackRock invests $500 million in clean energy infrastructure developer; GRI launches biodiversity reporting standard; Capgemini survey finds most business leaders plan to increase sustainability (..)

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3BL Media

AUGUST 5, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Sustainable Investing Approach. We employ a rigorous analytical investment approach, leveraging quantitative and fundamental research and expertise to uncover financially relevant information that can impact a company’s performance. Four-Step Investment Approach. Collaborating with Investment Research.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 20, 2022

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Investors’ growing appetite for sustainable investments now places funds marketed as ESG at more than $2.7trn in AUM. Regulators have stepped in to root out greenwashing with enforcement actions and policy-making to clarify what is a sustainable investment based on factual data and more precise fund names.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 3, 2022

Global urbanization offers a time-limited opportunity to work towards widespread climate-resilient development and transformational adaptation. This isn’t only good for the planet – it also benefits job creation, health, and equality. There needs to be an all-in approach in the built environment sector to deliver the critical 1.5oC pathway.

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