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.

Sustainable Investment

Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The value of portfolios classified as responsible investments (RI) dropped from $3.2 trillion on December 31, 2019, to $3 trillion at the end of 2021, according to the 2022 Canadian Responsible Investment Trends Report published last week by the Responsible Investment Association (RIA). .

Greenwashing

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.

Impact Investing

Chris Hall

JUNE 14, 2024

Investors’ management, measurement and monitoring of impact investing strategies has been steadily improving. BlueMark identified significant improvement in how impact investors approached due diligence, with 65% conducting pre-investment assessments of impact-related risks and 42% establishing impact targets at the time of investment.

Impact Investing

Chris Hall

MARCH 30, 2022

It will be followed by other impact benchmarks that will further provide investors with decision-useful data across sectors to inform their impact investing strategies. . The next impact benchmarks will cover the agriculture and energy sectors, GIIN said. . billion in 2026. . billion in 2026. .

Impact Investing

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In November 2021, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) said there is need for the global investment industry to “develop common sustainable finance-related terms and definitions” to ensure consistency.

Greenwashing

GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

11 young professionals on the future of sustainable finance. Mon, 05/10/2021 - 01:30. Investments Leadership Development Program at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, U.S. Many have cited the past year as an inflection point for sustainable investing. Impact Investing and returned Peace Corps Volunteer.

Net Zero

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. Further, advisors and consultants are working with impact investors on SDG alignment.

Impact Investing

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.

Sustainable Investment

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Last year, the UK government published a summary of responses to a call for evidence on whether pension trustees work effectively and are supported to make decisions in the best interests of pension savers.

Net Zero

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. .

Impact Investing

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 trillion in 2021. trillion by 2026, up from US$18.4

Sustainable Investment

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.

Impact Investing

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.

Impact Investing

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Investors are increasingly considering sustainability beyond the risk management lens, with the global impact investing market reaching an estimated US$1.64 These would require EU-domiciled funds with impact-related labels to meet an 80% sustainable investment threshold.

Impact Investing

Jon Hale

MAY 6, 2022

Your investment returns may be struggling today, but your portfolio is still helping create positive ESG outcomes. Keep this in mind, too: While sustainable investing includes a range of specific approaches, no sustainable fund is going to outperform all the time. funds market dipped by 65%. funds market dropped 6%.

Sustainable Investment

Christopher Mercer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Monday, October 11, 2021, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Monaghan Ballroom, Alumni Memorial Union In 2019, Marquette Business held its first ever Responsible Investment Symposium, a successful event that brought together experts on sustainable investment practices from across the country. Conference at Marquette University!".

Sustainable Investment

Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

After he got his MBA from the University of Liverpool, Sandhu decided to branch out on his own, founding Pangea Natural Foods in the spring of 2021. And he hopes that his impact-investing management firm (which he co-founded and helped launch this summer) will play an important role in closing the US$2.5-trillion

Climate Change

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Inconsistent, limited corporate disclosures continue to frustrate investors’ efforts to secure decision-useful data on social impact, according to panellists during a webinar hosted by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Forum (UKSIF) this week.

Impact Investing

Jon Hale

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

End of Week Notes Sustainable Funds Landscape?—?Highlights Highlights and Observations Let’s try for greater transparency in 2022 Sustainable funds and investors had enormous success in 2021. Investors poured nearly $70 billion into sustainable funds, and returns generally outpaced those of conventional funds.

Sustainable Investment

Sustainability Update

APRIL 5, 2023

In 2023, the focus of the investor letter is on the positive aspects of sustainable investing — with the theme, “Making Investing More Accessible, Affordable, and Transparent to More People is Core to Our Mission at BlackRock.”

Sustainable Investment

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.

Sustainable Investment

Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Impact Investing Institute, ESG Book, SIX, Sustainalytics, ISS ESG, Marsh, Deutsche Börse and AirCarbon Exchange. The package includes a practical handbook, an explanatory legal paper and a set of case studies.

Impact Investing

Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

The report , published alongside the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2) and Proxy Impact, reviewed at least 527 shareholder resolutions filed on ESG issues for the current proxy season. in 2021 The report stated this was “largely because the biggest asset managers have stopped supporting as many proposals”.

Sustainable Investment

3BL Media

AUGUST 22, 2022

By Alison Fenton-Willock | Director, Sustainable Investing. I’m excited about the potential that the Private Equity industry has to take a lead in sustainable investing. Q: Sustainability is often referred to as the new digital revolution for business. SOURCE: KKR. This would put U.S.

Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In fact, almost 85 percent of individual investors say they are interested in sustainable investing and more than three quarters believe they can use their investments to influence the extent of climate change. But if you are not willing to concede any returns from your “impact” investments, your options are limited.

Green Bonds

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.

Impact Investing

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Jessica Pilz, Head of Sustainable Investing for Private Markets at independent asset management firm Fiera Capital, called it a “double-edged sword” for real estate funds. It’s not easy to classify these strategies as either ‘impact’, ‘improver’ or ‘focus’ funds,” she told ESG Investor.

Sustainable Investment

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.

Impact Investing

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Research predicts new demands on asset managers, as clients’ sustainable investment priorities mature. Institutional and intermediary clients’ sustainable investment demands are growing increasingly sophisticated, requiring managers to reappraise their skills and budget levels.

Sustainable Investment

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”.

Greenwashing

Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

The report , published alongside the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2) and Proxy Impact, reviewed at least 527 shareholder resolutions filed on ESG issues for the current proxy season. in 2021 The report stated this was “largely because the biggest asset managers have stopped supporting as many proposals”.

Sustainable Investment

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including AXA IM, Neuberger Berman, BlackRock, Man GLG and Hy2gen AG. It is classified as an Article 9 product under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). “In

Sustainable Investment

Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

Sustainable investing of every kind is to some degree geared towards addressing the biggest threats facing our planet and its inhabitants, which means our collective response must itself be monumental. In the absence of such a paradigm, ‘impact-washing’ is fast becoming the most duplicitous form of greenwashing.

Banking

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The proportion of charities that would consider the use of alternative investments in the future has also declined. Only 35% of charities that do not currently use alternatives would consider including them in their portfolios in the future – a 5% fall compared to 2021. Engagement to the fore.

Divestment

Chris Hall

MARCH 1, 2024

“My role is to oversee the sustainability approach we take across all this: what our priorities and principles should be, which actions to take, which data to collect, and how to message that to our stakeholders,” he said, reflecting on his incumbent role.

Regenerative

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Anti-greenwashing guidance proposed by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), as well as the promise of extending the finalised Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDRs) to pension products, has been welcomed by the investment industry.

Greenwashing