ESG Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The FCA’s SDR requirements were introduced by the regulator in November 2023 , aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Originally published and reshared from Lucion Group's article here. However, companies are often lost in a series of topical buzzwords such as ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’. Here I agree with the article, in that what we need now, more than ever, is leadership. We call out greenwash.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 6, 2023

Asset managers are exercising greater caution by downgrading their Article 9 funds in lieu of clear guidance. . Let’s say you have an Article 9 fund which must invest (almost) all of its assets in sustainable investments. However, other managers are still unsure about what to do. They’re weighing the pros and cons.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Protected status for ESG investment products could mark the beginning of the end for greenwashing for UK investors. Before long, any asset manager thinking of slapping a ‘sustainable’ or ‘ESG’ label on its investment products for UK clients should think twice – at least. It thinks there is a problem about greenwashing.”.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2025

The tenth anniversary of Nordic asset manager Storebrands Green Bond Fund offers a yardstick for the significant growth of and interest in green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition (GSS+) bonds during the last decade. Launched in 2015, the fund has hit almost SEK 11 billion (US$1.1

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Chris Hall

APRIL 20, 2022

This follows SFDR Level 1, which came into effect over a year ago, and has required asset managers to sort their investment products into three categories: Article 6 (not sustainable), Article 8 (sustainable characteristics) and Article 9 (sustainable objectives). . Meeting new targets .

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

While progress was uneven, it was achieved against a radically changing geopolitical backdrop, and reinforced by moves in the US to mandate climate risk disclosures by corporates and discourage greenwashing by fund providers. It might not be perfect, but perhaps we should not expect it to be. This is how it is being interpreted by the market.

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