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AllianceBernstein: How Impactful Are Your Munis? Five Questions To Ask Your Manager.

3BL Media

Impact investing is one way. Muni managers may bill themselves as impact investors. But their approaches could be other forms of ESG investing in disguise—some just greenwashing or social washing—or they don’t have the roadmap, experience and resources to meet your impact goals.

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ESG Evolution Calls for Terminology Alignment

Chris Hall

Industry bodies align on key sustainable finance-related definitions to offer end-users greater “consistency and clarity”.

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

Corporate Knights

RIA CEO Pat Fletcher sees this adjustment as a welcome development. . Negative screening (for instance, screening out weapons, tobacco or fossil fuels) is number two at 91%, and corporate engagement is third at 79%. . While a $200-billion drop against $3.2 trillion in total assets in 2019 to 47% of $6.4

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Intent on Impact

Chris Hall

In mid-September, ESG Investor and Artemis Investment Management gathered asset owners and other experts to consider the current and future state of impact investments. Appetite for impact was strong, guided by emerging frameworks, but the forces of inertia were present too, both internal and external. Vast opportunities.

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ESG Investing Needs to Expand Its Definition of Materiality

Stanford Social Innovation

Specifically, the way the ESG market has developed limits the potential benefits these trillions of dollars of capital could have on society and the planet. Although ESG investing is often lumped in as part of the broader impact investing ecosystem, it’s important to be clear about their differences at the outset.

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Sustainable investments had secretly great year

Corporate Knights

Language has been standardized I’ve been frustrated by people misusing and conflating various sustainable investment strategies. Divestment is different from ESG, which is different from impact investing. Make sure you consider the risks before carefully deciding how much to invest in each category. 2023-06-30 U.S.