Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

Global index, data and analytics provider FTSE Russell has partnered with the Japan Exchange Group (JPX) and JPX-owned subsidiary JPX Market Innovation and Research to launch the FTSE JPX Net Zero Japan Index series. It consists of two indexes, the FTSE JPX Net Zero Japan 500 index and the FTSE JPX Net Zero Japan 200 index.

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James Militzer

JANUARY 26, 2024

One financial instrument that is yielding returns for businesses and investors alike is securitization. This is the process of transforming a group of cash-generating assets into one investable security, with investors receiving 100% of the money collected from the customer until the investor’s principal and interest is repaid.

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James Militzer

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Hystra recently analyzed the data and best practices of 21 organizations that rely principally on women direct sales forces to sell health-related products, to understand whether these assumptions held true. Profiling potential agents well in the hiring process is a first step.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A few weeks after the release of the final recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), major organisations operating in the region see their relationship with nature rising up their collective agendas. To date, for climate disclosures, issuers have only been required to ‘comply or explain’.

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3BL Media

JULY 11, 2022

SOURCE: Principal Financial Group. Like most interns, when Tanner Mote began work in 2015 at Principal ® , he took his time getting the lay of the land. But beyond the ins and outs of the building, commute, and caffeine, Mote, who is queer and uses he/they pronouns, also had questions about the culture at Principal.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

We are seeing many firms commit to collect and report at least some so-called ‘principal adverse impact indicators’ – or PAIs – as they are somewhat rigidly defined under the SFDR and we expect that doing so will become the default for many firms. For example, an expert group is working on a UK-version of the EU Green Taxonomy.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

Acknowledging the fact that in an ever-changing world, environmental objectives need a higher profile alongside poverty-reduction objectives, the need for new revised goals emerged. Thus a group of Member States formed an Open Working Group to prepare a proposal on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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