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EU Watchdogs Ask for Input on Greenwashing Risks

Chris Hall

Separately, the ESAs have written to the Commission asking for a six-month extension on a mandate to review the principal adverse impact indicators (PAI) and financial product disclosures outlined under SFDR. .

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MiFID II to Boost Green Fund Flows Despite Credibility Doubts

Chris Hall

Nudge to retail investors introduced while concerns remain over rigour of Article 8 funds. That’s the mixed verdict of US investment bank Jefferies in its latest quarterly assessment of the European sustainable investment market, focused on funds classified under Article 8 and 9 of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: Asset Owner-led Platform Extends Dataset

Chris Hall

The free SFDR data library covers all 18 mandatory and 46 optional SFDR principal adverse impact indicators (PAIs) sourced from a range of company reports reviewed by YourStake’s data team in one centralised location. Juan Serruya, Datia’s CEO, said: “We focus on making our platform easy to use.

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: 2DII’s PACTA to be Stewarded by RMI

Chris Hall

BlackRock will leverage Clarity AI’s data to facilitate reporting on Principal Adverse Impact indicators, a set of specific ESG metrics mandated by the EU as part of the second part of the regulation, which imposes more granular sustainability disclosure obligations for asset managers.

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The Future of ESG Regulation for Private Funds

Chris Hall

Many European investors are now demanding that private funds categorise themselves as Article 8 or even Article 9 products. Article 8 is increasingly becoming the default for many buyout and private debt funds. This article was co-authored by Tim Lewis, Head of Financial Services & Markets at Travers Smith.

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Take Five: Think Big

Chris Hall

As well as asking how well SFDR interacts with other elements of Europe’s sustainable finance architecture (such as the Green Taxonomy and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive ), the Commission also asks about whole vistas of potential change: how useful or burdensome are principal adverse impact indicators (among other types of disclosures) (..)