Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2023

Ex-Invesco Research Director Hazra to Lead First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute, with research planned on engagement, human rights, biodiversity and diversity beyond gender. Other recent reports covered microplastics, microfibres and the challenges of the “rapid evolution” of sustainable investment for fund governance.

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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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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Across the sustainable investment landscape, resources, patience and credibility are all being stretched. – Asset managers are hiring ESG and sustainability staff, you won’t be surprised to learn, and they’re almost certainly not alone. A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces. 

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The three papers recognized this year study three very different topics, but each represents an exemplary effort to deepen our understanding of sustainable investment,” says Lloyd Kurtz , founder of the Moskowitz Prize and again one of the judges this year.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Financial flows are changing, with public and private funding gravitating towards net-zero, sustainable investments. I look forward to exploring this new leadership ethos and logic of enterprise together with the Leonardo Centre’s comprehensive network of academic scholars and business leaders. Pull Quote. Leadership.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including ISSB, Calvert, GLP Europe, Metzler AM, and KGAL. . Former World Bank Vice President Jingdong Hua has been appointed as Vice-Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). Oppenheim Jr. &

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Academic researchers. Sustainable Investing Failed Its First Big Test. Grants/giving/volunteer platform representatives. Rating agency representatives. Ranking organization representatives. Nonprofit executives and program staff. Award and recognition organizations. More about our guests.

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Jon Hale

MAY 13, 2022

End of Week Notes The widespread use of “ESG” obscures the broader purpose of sustainable investing and makes it easier to attack. While it’s not perfect, I prefer the term “sustainable investing,” but it’s a battle I may not be winning. That could be one reason “ESG” is used more often in fund names.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

How can a coalition of organizations bent on improving outcomes, such as Google, Baker Hughes, and academic institutes help lay the groundwork for reliable reporting of emissions that enable better decision making, and which are comparable across the economic spectrum? Footnotes. [1]

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Jump Solution, Eureka Solution, Fast Solution and Globe Trotter awards were won by intelligence platform Fidata, academic institution King’s College London, enh anced due diligence platform Neotas, and SKFH respectively.

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ESG Today

JUNE 24, 2022

Jeff and Michael bring significant sustainability, investment and standard-setting expertise to the ISSB. With today’s announcement, the ISSB has now reached its quorum threshold of 8 members, allowing the organization to formally operate. Emmanuel Faber, ISSB Chair, said: “With today’s announcement, the ISSB has reached a quorum.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2023

Having led the world in laying out frameworks to channel sustainable investment, Europe is now preparing to borrow from the US playbook, not least to protect investment flows. But sustainable finance remains an evolving discipline both in academia and industry.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

These long-held principles of sustainability have filtered down to the world of investment. According to figures published by The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance in 2021, Japan’s total sustainably invested assets stood at US$42,874 billion in 2020, representing a more than fivefold increase from 2016.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Against a backdrop of inflation, supply chain issues and a rising cost-of-living, UK leaders are steadfast in their environmental commitments as they view sustainability action as a means to offset economic uncertainty.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

“Investment consultants have taken some things at face value, which in one sense is understandable – they’re not academics. Scientists and academics live in silos. But the analysis is dreadful and should never have been published in the first place – that is the real reason we’re in deep trouble now.”

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Academic study condemns managers as “stewards of the status quo”. . Serious doubts about the environmental stewardship credentials of three of the world’s largest asset management firms have been raised by academics at City Political Economy Research Centre (CITYPERC), part of City, University of London.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2023

Despite growing sustainable investment opportunities across Africa, “business-as-usual” finance system reinforces funding gap. Climate finance channelled into Africa cannot be upscaled in line with a 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

MAY 5, 2023

Those arguing for a faster withdrawal from fossil fuel firms have found support from academics at Harvard Business School , and more investors explicitly taking a twin-track approach , engaging with policymakers while upping the stakes at AGMs. But apparently some pensioners are happy with the strategies of the oil majors.

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Chris Hall

MAY 8, 2022

Investment consultants have embedded diversity criteria into their manager research functions, based on academic evidence that shows the benefits of a diverse management group and workforce on culture and investment performance. She added that the collaborative nature of the project would help “galvanise such change”.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including AXA IM Alts, PwC, Impax Asset Management, Barclays, Osborne Clarke, and WBCSD. . AXA IM Alts , a global investment management firm with over €190 billion in AUM, is building out its team to support its New Capital Strategy.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including JPMAM, Pictet AM, UK Investment Bank and LGT Capital Partners. . JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has announced the launch of two new ETFs, expanding its active ETF line-up.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It is supported by Chronos Sustainability, and its academic partner is the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) Global Climate Transition Centre, which is based at the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the Environment (LSE GRI).

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Oscar Warwick Thompson, Head of Policy and Communications at the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF), tells ESG Investor that tying ESG to executives’ financial incentives must be done carefully “to avoid a common trend of higher remuneration across the board”. “There is some academic evidence highlighting risks of further (..)

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Just Capital

AUGUST 11, 2022

Three years since the Business Roundtable dedicated its CEOs to pursuing a stakeholder-driven capitalism and just months before the pandemic helped fuel record growth of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investing, the backlash against both has been intense. The feedback? Non-financial metrics are irrelevant.

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Chris Hall

JULY 10, 2023

Just nature transition should be placed “at the heart” of UK agricultural, climate and nature policy engagement, academic report says. Transition to a sustainable UK agriculture sector is being undermined by a failure to factor the social impacts of addressing the climate and biodiversity crises, according to authors of a new report.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Segal argues that Canada’s policymakers and regulatory bodies have failed to align the country’s financial sector with a “safe climate and stable economy”, leaving little incentive for companies, financial institutions and asset owners to pursue sustainable investment strategies.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The next focused more deeply on the rising profile of social factors, driven partly by the development of the sustainable investment regulations and frameworks around the global. Similarly, the authors argued that the results achieved could be extrapolated to other sectors.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The impetus for net zero following the Paris COP came from the academic community, was endorsed and framed by policymakers, and requires business model change, often radical, to be implemented by corporates. “We have to acknowledge that with the transition to net zero, finance is an enabler not really the driver.”. Demanding data.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

Paul Lee, Head of Stewardship and Sustainable Investment Strategy at investment consultancy Redington, says concerns that fiduciary duty may constrain investor action on climate change or indeed ESG risks more broadly are overstated.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2022

In areas of the economy where unionisation levels are low, our stakeholder research and engagement can include talking to academics and NGOs such as migrant workers’ rights organisations,” says Martin. This is despite double that number listing labour disruption as a principal risk to their business. “In

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 24, 2015

Contact: Eve de la Mothe Karoubi The SDGs and Mining: Challenges and Opportunities September 27, 9:00am-11:00am Together with the World Economic Forum, UNDP, and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, SDSN is preparing an atlas of how the SDGs will affect corporations in the mining sector.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

SDSN: Goals and Actions Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE The SDSN pursues to connect the world’s academic, research and knowledge-generating institutions in order to help them realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement. The offered courses are accessible online and free for all.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including SDI AOP, UBS, Climeworks, AXA, Moody’s RMS, Fathom, Reask, Carbon Direct, Genpact and Climate Vault. .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 31, 2023

This should help different types of investment organisations to match stewardship expenditure to their particular level of ambition, said McNamee. A decisive factor Academic research has highlighted the difficulties in measuring the effectiveness of stewardship and attributing outcomes.

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Jon Hale

JANUARY 28, 2022

End of Week Notes It’s not a “craze” and sustainable investors aren’t naive I suppose it’s a sign of success when The Wall Street Journal sees fit to launch a weeklong critique of sustainable investing. Instead, it’s turning toward stakeholder capitalism, which is supported and enabled by sustainable investing.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We intend to continue to deepen and expand our work on this Framework and welcome feedback and opportunities for exchanging viewpoints and information.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 1, 2023

T his puzzles Paul Lee, Head of Stewardship and Sustainable Investment Strategy at UK-based investment consultant Redington, who says accounting standards are fundamental to the information flows that come to investors. “The number of investors is vanishingly small.

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