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OCTOBER 23, 2024

Morgan, said: “Institutional investors that prioritize impact in their investment strategies are more varied and nuanced than traditional ESG investors. Gergana Thiel, Global Co-Head of Macro Sales, J.P.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

ESG investment solutions provider Impact Cubed is planning to roll out a series of services and tools this year aimed at strengthening its focus on investment advice across the three pillars of risk, return and sustainable investment.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Green Equity Designations 1 Nasdaq launched Green Equity Designations on the Nordic markets in 2021 in response to increased demand for sustainable investments and extensive growth in Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Markets. The platform also provides issuer-level information on UN Sustainable Development Goals allocation.

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Chris Hall

JULY 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including OS-Climate, CIPFA, Isio, ICE, Urgentum and Banca March. . Urgentem provides Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions data, analytics and tools for more than 30,000 publicly listed and privately held securities.

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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. . Swiss bank UBS has signed a ten-year agreement with Climeworks ,?a

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Chris Hall

MARCH 11, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including NN Investment Partners, SDI AOP, ESG Book, ISS ESG, Likvidi, Alcumus. Deutsche Bundesbank, acted as lead central bank, but all other Eurosystem central banks have the opportunity to join the agreement.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including BT Pension Scheme, Global Impact Investing Network, Fulcrum Asset Management, S&P Global Sustainable1 and JLL. Terence Nahar joins as Head of Investment Research and Emma Douglas as Senior Stewardship Analyst.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Headcount growth was focused on individuals with key skill sets including: banking, ESG investing, in-house corporate ESG, ESG rating agencies and ESG standard setters. In 2022, IR Intelligence produced research on sustainable investing trends, as well as proprietary research on corporate climate disclosure trends.

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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. First presented in 1996 by the U.S.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including AXA Investment Managers, HSBC Bank Pension Trust, BeyondNetZero, Xpansiv, and GRI. AXA Investment Managers has made three appointments in its corporate governance and stewardship team.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including Franklin Templeton, Ninety One, Robeco, Mirova, Adam Street Partners, ThomasLloyd and NGFS. We are confident that Anne’s expertise will take our efforts on sustainable investing to the next level.”

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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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Chris Hall

JANUARY 13, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including NatureAlpha, Verdantix, Solactive, Minerva Analytics, Euronext, Joulea, and Clarity AI. German index provider Solactive has acquired ESG research, stewardship support and proxy voting agency Minerva Analytics.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Verisk Maplecroft, Fair Cost Index, Scope Ratings, LPA, Globalance, GoldenSource, FactSet, ClimateWorks and Higg.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including PwC, MSCI, Fenergo, Sentifi, and CME Group. . Sentifi , a Zurich-based alternative data provider, has announced a partnership with credit and sustainability risk agency Scope.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including AXA Investment Managers, BNP Paribas Real Estate UK, Climate Solutions, Willis Towers Watson, Actis, and Persefoni. Based in London, he will lead the company’s climate analytics and exposure management activities.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including WWF, UNEP, S&P Global Sustainable1, ISS ESG, and CHOOOSE. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched a Biodiversity Risk Filter, which looks to aid companies in tackling nature-related risks.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 12, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including FTSE Russell, GRESB, GI Hub, MAS, Google Cloud, Apex, Clarity AI, Blackrock eFront and Normative. . And a significant portion of the SFDR reporting burden has been eliminated.” .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including MSCI, Bloomberg, RepRisk, Pathzero and IETA. . Zurich-based ESG data science company RepRisk has launched a new biodiversity risk tool, RepRisk Geospatial Analytics.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The resources included deep-dive guidelines for seven sectors – including asset owners, asset managers and banks; high-level guidance for 30 sectors of the global economy; and advice on how to undertake a transition planning cycle.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

ESG investment solutions provider Impact Cubed is planning to roll out a series of services and tools this year aimed at strengthening its focus on investment advice across the three pillars of risk, return and sustainable investment.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2023

Dana Sasarean, Associate Director of Mining Research at ESG research, ratings and analytics firm Sustainalytics, is concerned about transparency. “Even if we get to the point where we figure out how to do DSM safely and sustainably, how do investors then verify that the mining process is happening in line with these expectations?

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including CPP Investments, CCLA, Vontobel, LeapFrog, Low Carbon, and Brown Advisory. . Richard Manley is the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s (CPP Investments) new Chief Sustainability Officer.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Impact Cubed, NatureAlpha, Sylvera, Carbon Trust, Themis, Manifest Climate and AirCarbon Exchange. The training tool has been accredited by the London Institute of Banking and Finance.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Climate TRACE, MSCI, EcoAct, Deloitte, Persefoni and Deepki. . Data, analytics and research services provider MSCI has expanded its Implied Temperature Rise (ITR) metrics to include funds and indexes.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 10, 2024

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has developed a new tool that will enable it to better identify cases of greenwashing in the investment management industry. On the basis of that work, it has now developed what it describes as an “indicator” to qualify greenwashing risk among investment funds.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including the ISSB, Hymans Robertson, 2DII, ACA Group, Edison, UKSIF and Util. . D’Ath has nearly 30 years of experience in investments and international equity markets, working as Barclays Wealth, ING and ICAP.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has published its final recommendations for nature-related risk management and disclosure, serving as a tool to “operationalise” the achievement of Target 15 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). According to Tony Goldner, Executive Director of TNFD, the recommendations (..)

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Carbon Tracker, Sustainable Fitch, Apex Group, ACA Group, Euroclear, and ISS ESG. . Equally, it will enable banks and investors to more accurately assess the risk of particular assets becoming stranded.”.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 9, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including the Green Finance Institute, FTSE Russell, Glass Lewis, GRESB, NatureMetrics and more. Amsterdam-based ESG data provider GRESB has acquired asset-based climate data and analytics provider Asset Resolution.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Northern Trust, EDS, Nature4Climate, Capital for Climate, Qontigo, Verra, Pachama, Mubadala Investment Company, ACX and ACA Group. .

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Morningstar Indexes, Carnite, Persefoni, Blackstone, Tata and GaiaLens. . AI-driven ESG analytics platform GaiaLens has announced the launch of a new user interface to tackle common ESG data complaints.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Broadridge, ESG Book, Ada Fintech, Redington, Greyparrot.ai, and Viridios.ai. .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including 2DII, RMI, Nasdaq, Clarity AI, ISSB, Integrum and Accenture. . The game is intended to be a capacity building tool for financial institutions, supervisors and central banks.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

“Finding investible projects can be a challenge. There is sometimes a lack of projects with the scale and risk/return profile to attract institutional investment,” said Laura Kaliszewski, Global Head of Client Sustainable Investment Solutions, at Natixis Investment Management.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 18, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including GRI, Sustainalytics, ISS ESG, CDP, Diginex, Esgaia and Normative. . ESG and corporate governance research, ratings and analytics firm Sustainalytics ? GRI 12 will come into effect for reporting from January 2024. .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2023

In February, UK-based Brunel Pension Partnership announced it is embarking on a pilot with S&P Trucost to develop a “biodiversity footprint” to enhance the asset owner’s analytics and disclosures across these themes.

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