ESG Today

JULY 13, 2022

In his new role, Saunders Calvert will be responsible for leading the expansion of the company’s product suite and driving its market differentiation through next-generation sustainability solutions. Dr Daniel Klier, CEO of ESG Book, said: “I am delighted to welcome Leon to the team to lead our product development and expansion.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example, in smaller private markets funds, the requirement may be for a broader role combining senior ESG reporting expertise with commercial acumen/value creation. Integration of ESG Factors: Collaborating with investment teams and risk management to integrate ESG factors into investment decision-making processes.

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Richard Matthews

APRIL 20, 2022

Sustainable economies like these can help us to realize the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This blend of free markets and state control is the dominant economic system in the vast majority of developed nations in the world today. However, it remains focused on profit maximization.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2024

CalSTRS Sustainable Investment Director Kirsty Jenkinson talks about taking a hard line on companies failing to disclose emissions properly and treating proxy voting as seriously as portfolio investments. A key aspect under the net zero transition category for CalSTRS, is methane mitigation.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The real question is, are the world’s banks ready to fund the development of renewable technologies at scale, and updating all the infrastructure in between? However, there is always room for improvement, even among these leaders, and especially when it comes to disclosing specifics in their sustainable financing commitments.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 19, 2024

Served considerably less notice, many developing economies have neither the resources nor the policies to cope. Though gradual, a growing appreciation of the risks and opportunities arising from these demographic changes is taking place, alongside an increasing awareness of the value of natural capital to human wellbeing.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A large and growing share of that investment capitol is going towards impact investments. In an interview with Private Equity International (PEI), Tania Carnegie, the Global Private Equity and Asset Management Leader for KPMG Impact, said she is confident about the future of impact investing. Moving Beyond Financial Value.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 5, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Octopus Energy, Nest, GLIL Infrastructure, CPP Investments, AimCo, Railpen, ICG, Algebris Investments, JOHCM and Greenfinch. . ICG Infrastructure Equity raised €1.5

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Chris Hall

MARCH 1, 2024

“My role is to oversee the sustainability approach we take across all this: what our priorities and principles should be, which actions to take, which data to collect, and how to message that to our stakeholders,” he said, reflecting on his incumbent role. Real assets currently make up a quarter of the fund’s investment portfolio (£2.5

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including EQT, Aware Super, Candriam, Pensions for Purpose, M&G, Earth Capital, Impact Cubed, and Sphera. . Dany da Fonseca joins as Co-Manager of Candriam’s Sustainable Bond Euro Corporate Strategy.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 4, 2024

In many ways, it sets a challenge for asset owners in holding their managers to account for better delivery.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The Corporate Engagement workstream will focus on developing a multi-year engagement plan to engage companies deemed most important to stemming nature and biodiversity loss, while the Technical Advisory Group will help to identify priority engagements and develop science-based investor guidance and tools.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In Europe, the Green Taxonomy and Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation have set standards for what counts as sustainable investing, which include private equity. With EDCI helping to address the data challenge, we believe private equity has firmly turned a corner on responsible investment.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Inconsistent, limited corporate disclosures continue to frustrate investors’ efforts to secure decision-useful data on social impact, according to panellists during a webinar hosted by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Forum (UKSIF) this week.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 16, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including MSCI, Clearstream, Proxymity, Malk Partners, Integrum ESG, CGI, and Arvani. . Combining the capabilities of Malk and Integrum will enhance private investors’ ability to drive ESG performance and overall value creation.” .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 12, 2024

“In 2021, we did a year-long project and developed a paper called ‘What does stakeholder capitalism mean for investors ?’,” Many of the tools in the sustainable investing toolbox are not up to the job, he argued, which is why universal owners are bound to fail when they try to internalise climate targets within their portfolios.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Man GLG, UBS AM, Aon, Clean Growth Fund, Foresight, Azalea and SUSI Partners. . UBS Asset Management and insurance firm Aon have co-developed the USB Global Equity Climate Transition fund.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including DWS, T. The ESG Women for Women fund is managed exclusively by women, investing in companies that have strong social values and fair working conditions for women. “The

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Impact investing is getting traction and, in 2022, reached 1.2 trillion in AUM, according to a report by the Global Investing Network. Impact investing is getting traction and, in 2022, reached 1.2

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Carlos Sanchez

APRIL 28, 2021

There are two megatrends behind the rise of sustainable finance and ESG ratings; the shift in companies purpose and the rise of intangible assets. Companies focus on value creation has changed dramatically over the years. In 2020, intangible assets were 90% of S&P500 value compared with 17% in 1975. Shift in purpose.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Watch the webinar recording: On November 21, 2022, SDSN and the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University (CSD) hosted the second of three webinars to discuss the Lancet COVID-19 Commission’s findings and recommendations, as presented in their final report: The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from COVID-19.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Investors limited by lack of data and tools to incorporate social factors into sustainable finance strategies due to an “overwhelming focus” on environmental issues. Experts have backed United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) call to recognise the interconnectedness of environmental and social-related issues in tackling climate change.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 11, 2024

The report recommended that the remit of the FRC be extended to develop and encourage best practice stewardship of UK listed companies and their institutional investors – eventually leading to the creation of the Stewardship Code, which was subsequently updated in 2012 and in 2020.

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