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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”. The growing use of ESG-related language in fund names and documentation without transparency and underlying evidence increases greenwashing risk, ESMA warned.

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

Corporate Knights

For more than a decade, responsible investing in Canada experienced steady upward growth. A new report says that trend has reversed itself in the last two years, as the industry struggles to respond to allegations of greenwashing and a tougher regulatory environment. . More to be done on responsible investing.

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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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Sustainable investments had secretly great year

Corporate Knights

We used to be concerned about greenwashing, but now it seems that many companies are deliberately staying quiet in what some are calling greenhushing – the practice of downplaying or keeping quiet about their sustainability initiatives. Divestment is different from ESG, which is different from impact investing. 2023-06-30 U.S.