Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A recent benchmarking project conducted by Canadian asset owners found a marked gap between the fund-level disclosures of asset managers offering sustainable investments and evidence of firm-level commitment to and understanding of ESG integration. . The group of nine endowments, foundations and trusts awarded a C$104.5

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

Sustainable investing of every kind is to some degree geared towards addressing the biggest threats facing our planet and its inhabitants, which means our collective response must itself be monumental. Many funds promise impact but cannot prove it, most likely because they are incapable of generating it in any event.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2022

Sindhu Krishna, Head of Sustainable Investments at Phoenix Group, explains how the asset owner is holding managers to account. trillion of investment over the next 15 years. As Phoenix focuses more on evidence of outcomes from asset managers, Krishna would also like to see progress in how investment impact is quantified.

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B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

How Sustainable Finance Relates to CSR, SRI, and ESG Here’s a more formal definition of sustainable finance, involving three acronyms you’ll hear a lot about: CSR, SRI, and ESG. I consider sustainable finance as consisting of these three pillars or frameworks that guide the key actors.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Investors discussed the practical challenges of climate- and nature- positive investing at a recent Paris roundtable hosted by S&P Global Sustainable1 and ESG Investor. Finding investible projects can be a challenge. Unforeseen events The pace of change in the regulatory landscape is beginning to accelerate.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

These were highlighted at last October’s PRI in Person event by Jan Rasmussen, Head of ESG and Sustainability at PensionDanmark. It could also accelerate the nascent shift toward a broader definition of stewardship, as well as a possible rethink around the obligations of fiduciary duty.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

This year, for the first time, a company was excluded from an investment fund on the basis of biodiversity. CERES, the sustainable investing advocacy group, launched Nature 100 to mobilize investors to take actions to reduce nature loss and accelerate nature recovery.

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Richard Matthews

APRIL 20, 2022

Recent events are forcing us to consider new economic paradigms. The repercussions of these dramatic events are reverberating around the world and calling us to confront deeply entrenched weaknesses in our economic systems. However, it remains focused on profit maximization.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Natural extension – The roles of public and private sector actors were also to the fore at yesterday’s Nature Data for Institutional Investors event, hosted yesterday in London by ESG Investor , as speakers considered nature risks and impacts in light of the TNFD’s voluntary disclosure recommendations.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Climate risk and resilience are largely modeled by insurance companies, looking at how a company’s assets may be affected by rising sea levels, extreme heat, increasing natural disasters and other future climate events as climate change worsens.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Fiduciary duty is driving the growth of sustainable investing in the US. In early November, with both COP27 and the US midterm elections looming, a group of sustainable investment experts joined ESG Investor in New York to consider the evolving US regulatory landscape for sustainable investing.

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3BL Media

MARCH 5, 2024

According to a recent Bloomberg report, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with over US $9 trillion in AUM, has been “expanding its dominance” in ESG investing, with net ESG investment inflows in every quarter of the last two years.

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