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New report shows $200-billion drop in responsible investing market share in Canada

Corporate Knights

In Europe, regulators have gone even further, establishing the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation , which comes into force on January 1, 2023, requiring funds to categorize themselves as light green (Article 8), dark green (Article 9) or conventional funds (Article 6), based on the degree to which investments support sustainability.?In

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SFDR Update “Does not Kill Innovation” – AllianzGI

Chris Hall

In the months leading up to Level 2, some asset managers opted to downgrade various funds to Article 8 to avoid accusations of greenwashing. The second binding element aims to more meaningfully connect sustainability to the manager’s product strategy.

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This Week’s Fund News: DWS Launches ESG Fund for Women, by Women

Chris Hall

“With the scale up in Fund III, we hope that Summa can have significantly increase its positive impact on an international scale, investing in companies across the spectrum from young, high-growth companies to more mature firms. Impact investing, or what we call Private Equity 4.0,