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Sustainable Investment Surges in Non-US Markets – GSIA

Chris Hall

Global sustainable investment has passed US$30 trillion, but US excluded from majority of trend analysis figures due to “material change” in methodology. According to the GSIA’s data, the value of sustainable investments in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand has risen from US$18.2 trillion to US$21.9

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MetLife Investment Management To Acquire Specialist ESG Manager, Affirmative Investment Management

3BL Media

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. “We

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Major investor alliance working to clean up greenwash lurking in ESG

Corporate Knights

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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This Week’s People Moves: IASB’s Lloyd Takes ISSB Vice-Chair Role

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including the ISSB, AllianzGI, EQT, PGIM and KPMG. . Trustees of the IFRS Foundation have appointed Sue Lloyd as Vice-Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). Impact investing is fast-growing out of its niche.

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Financing Women- Owned or -Led SMEs for Sustainable Growth: Navigating Capital Supply Side Challenges in Africa

James Militzer

A 2014 study found that investors were over twice as likely to fund the exact same startup if the pitch was delivered to them by a male founder rather than a female founder. Both play an insidious — often nearly invisible — role in maintaining a deeply inequitable status quo. Take the question of bias. Photo courtesy of UN Women Africa.

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