3BL Media

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Donor advised funds (DAFs) numbered roughly one million accounts hosted across 1,000 community foundation and nonprofit sponsors, with $160 billion in assets at the end of 2020. Impact investing has found a foothold in donor advised funds. And, historically they grant more than 20% of assets each year.

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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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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Sustainable investment assets in the U.S. trillion in 2020, according to US SIF. The post The case of the suddenly missing trillions in ESG investments appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Dec. 14 – It’s an ESG whodunnit. totaled $17.1

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Venture capital firms struggling to define and measure impact, but integrating sustainable investment principles. . Despite rising private markets interest in impact investing solutions, adoption of standardised impact measurement frameworks remains low, according to specialist data and research provider PitchBook. .

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2023

There is a growing divide between private market investors adopting sustainable investing strategies and those choosing to distance themselves from sustainability-related themes and considerations due to the anti-ESG movement.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2022

Assets in European impact funds increased by 50% in 2021 compared to 2020, as demand for the classification increases in the wake of greenwashing claims against funds elsewhere in the sustainable investment universe. of total European funds’ net assets currently follow an impact investing approach.

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ESG Today

APRIL 19, 2023

Founded in 2020, New York-based BlueMark was launched as a spinoff from women-owned impact investing consultancy Tideline, in order to help bring accountability and trust in the impact investment process.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 13, 2023

With regulation increasingly promoting transparency and ambition across sustainable investment strategies, Chair outlines plans to update how it measures the market. The rapid evolution of the sustainable investment market in Europe is forcing changes to the methods used to capture its size and growth. trillion.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 4, 2024

Latin America’s next phase of impact investing must embrace the region’s specific challenges and opportunities, says Ahmad El Jurdi, Principal at Lightrock. In recent years, Latin America has been at the core of a paradox within the global investment landscape.

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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 ESG integration alone is not sufficient for inclusion.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2022

Impact-focused manager expands in Africa and Asia, plans solar energy debt financing fund. . Sustainable investment specialist Mirova has advanced its emerging markets strategy with the acquisition of SunFunder, a Kenyan private debt manager focused on renewable energy investments in Africa and Asia. .

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In recent years, impact investing has become mainstream and private equity (PE) firms are playing a key role. Despite being dismissed by some as “woke capitalism”, impact investing is a trend that is here to stay. PE firms have helped to grow the popularity of impact investing.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 1, 2022

Net Purpose CEO Sam Duncan explains the need to bring more structure to sustainability data. A survey conducted by the Impact Investing Institute reveals growing interest. A survey conducted by the Impact Investing Institute reveals growing interest. We need more data and fewer scores,” she says.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Climate change is the leading issue being addressed by US asset owners that incorporate ESG factors into their investment decisions, according to the US SIF Foundation’s latest biennial Report on US Sustainable Investing Trends. trillion in 2020 – due to a change in methodology and an impending tightening of regulation.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Pacifists may choose not to invest in companies that manufacture weapons. Environmentalists may choose to invest in companies that produce durable products from natural materials. Terms like sustainable investing, impact investing, and ethical investing were used to describe this activity. In the U.S.,

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including Aviva Investors, T Rowe Price, EQT, Nuveen, M&G, ICI Global and SBTi. Sam Tripuraneni has been appointed Head of Sustainable Outcomes at UK-based global asset manager Aviva Investors.

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3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2022

Georgina Sell, Principal Consultant - Sustainable & Impact Investing at Acre, said: "It was exciting to see that there was a lot more participation at COP this year from corporates, particularly private and investment firms, and we have started to understand the impact of this on hiring trends.

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James Militzer

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2009, developed countries committed to mobilizing US $100 billion per year for climate action in developing countries by 2020. As of 2020, the annual SDG financing gap for developing countries stood at $4.2 They failed. trillion — up from $2.5 trillion pre-pandemic.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A recent benchmarking project conducted by Canadian asset owners found a marked gap between the fund-level disclosures of asset managers offering sustainable investments and evidence of firm-level commitment to and understanding of ESG integration. . The group of nine endowments, foundations and trusts awarded a C$104.5

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2022

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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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including AustralianSuper, Morningstar, Tikehau Capital, Oak Hill Advisors and Guinness Global Investors. . He has also previously held roles at the Global Impact Investing Net work and the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank initiative.

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James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In 2020, over 190,000 hectares of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon were lost due to illicit mono-cropping, illegal mining, mass deforestation, cattle ranching and unsustainable agriculture. In 2020, the amount of hectares of forest lost was 37% higher than the prior year, making it the highest loss ever measured.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Efficient, reliable and trusted benchmarks can cut the cost of sustainable investment, as they allow passive, index-based strategies to support sustainable investment objectives. Passive funds, she said, account for roughly 40% of all US sustainable investment assets under management.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

With ESMA flagging a tripling in the size of the SDG fund market between 2020 and 2023, impact-washing is also in their sights. Regulators are already pushing back against the risk of greenwashing with a range of fund disclosure , naming and labelling rules. The post Take Five: Into the Stratosphere appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2023

Despite growing sustainable investment opportunities across Africa, “business-as-usual” finance system reinforces funding gap. billion in 2020, CPI said. The AFAC report said the investment opportunity to build climate resilience in Africa represents US$3 trillion by 2030, adding that just 0.1% Africa received US$29.5

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2022

Sindhu Krishna, Head of Sustainable Investments at Phoenix Group, explains how the asset owner is holding managers to account. Krishna says: “We need to scrutinise [managers’] claims of impact investing thoroughly to ask how they define impact because there’s a range of definitions, and how they measure and report it.

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including LSEG, ISS ESG, Mercer, ICE, Euroclear, Scoot Science, Tumelo, GoldenSource and more.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Investing in equality for women can potentially increase a company’s—and your portfolio’s—bottom line. DESCRIPTION: By Lily Trager, Wealth Management, Director of Impact Investing. While COVID-19 has impacted all of us, it has disproportionately affected women, especially women of color. Our expert explains.

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B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

Most asset managers, especially institutional investors such as mutual and pension funds, claim to integrate ESG into their investment strategy. The numbers speak for themselves: According to the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, over $35.5 trillion was managed for sustainable and responsible investing globally in 2020.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including BlackRock, Invesco, Franklin Templeton, SUSI Partners, AXA IM Alts, Octopus, KGAL and M&G. . SUSI Partners , a Swiss fund management firm with €1.7 KGAL’s combined 1.2

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Sustainability Update

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Adding our perspective why this is a very important development: The company is a member of the American Investment Council (formerly, Private Equity Growth Council). What about P/E and sustainability? . For information on The Blackstone Group’s sustainability journey: [link] org/.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 10, 2024

Despite appearances, sustainable investments have quietly had a great year. Given the poor performance of green energy stocks and the chorus of opposition against anything viewed as “woke,” it’s easy to get lost in the narrative that the shine has worn off sustainable investing. But that’s not what I’m seeing.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2024

The report was released in collaboration with the Local Pensions Partnership Investments (LPPI) and advisory firm The Good Economy – which co-founded the Place-Based Impact Investing Network alongside the Institute for Economic Development and the Impact Investing Institute last year.

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Just Capital

JUNE 2, 2022

Cambria will be leading JUST’s investor stakeholder and financial markets strategy, cultivating industry partnerships and initiatives with key market actors in the asset owner, asset manager, and sustainable and impact investing communities. So what’s the issue? I think that ultimately that perspective will prevail.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Impact investment pioneer Sir Ronald Cohen has long talked about overthrowing the “dictatorship of profit” and weighting it against a company’s societal and environmental impact. The US-based NGO is seeking to change investor behaviour through its activity, more so than corporate.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2022

As SDG-aligned impact investing grows, methods for measuring real-world outcomes are proliferating. . Time is running out to fulfil the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ensure an equitable world for the next generation. trillion impact market in 2020 operated under a clear impact management system.

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Jon Hale

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

With so many more people investing sustainably, and doubtless many more still on the sidelines, I’d like to see 2022 be a year marked by greater transparency to minimize gaps that I think are emerging between what investors expect and how funds are actually executing their sustainable investing mandates. Data as of Dec.

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