Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The right to engage Sophie Demaré, Sustainability Investment Analyst for Fixed Income at Federated Hermes, echoes these sentiments. Market participants are paying special attention to the transparency of covenants, transaction documents and use of proceeds. “To Bondholders just have different rights, and levers for engagement.”

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James Militzer

JUNE 21, 2024

This interest is driven by new climate science findings and the strong performance of sustainable investments: In 2023, sustainable funds outperformed traditional funds , delivering an overall return of 12.6%, which is almost 50% higher than that of traditional funds. trillion in 2022, a 15% decrease from 2020.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In both the public and private sectors, this week saw incremental progress in support of sustainable investment objectives, rather than transformative changes. On this front, developments look promising with decisions taken at last week’s World Bank Group – IMF Annual Meetings in Marrakech described as the “ end of the beginning ”.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Headcount growth was focused on individuals with key skill sets including: banking, ESG investing, in-house corporate ESG, ESG rating agencies and ESG standard setters. In 2022, IR Intelligence produced research on sustainable investing trends, as well as proprietary research on corporate climate disclosure trends.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 10, 2024

On the basis of that work, it has now developed what it describes as an “indicator” to qualify greenwashing risk among investment funds. “[We The regulator said it would also look for potential misalignment between funds’ disclosures and their actual investments.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The resources included deep-dive guidelines for seven sectors – including asset owners, asset managers and banks; high-level guidance for 30 sectors of the global economy; and advice on how to undertake a transition planning cycle. At the end of its formal mandate, the taskforce plans to publish a document setting out a forward pathway.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

Alongside the TSP, the alliance has published a background document which further elaborates on its approach to, and perspective of, investment portfolio decarbonisation in the next five years.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 3, 2023

This surrender was part of a wider pullback, as banks, investment funds and asset owners axed billions of dollars from sustainable investment funds and reined in marketing excesses. North American banks dug in on fossil fuels and pressured GFANZ to capitulate. What caused this turnaround? Canadian and U.S.

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3BL Media

MAY 4, 2022

As bond shortcomings are more openly documented, issuers will have to raise their game to encourage greater participation. 1 Fatica, Serena and Panzica, Roberto, Sustainable Investing in Times of Crisis: Evidence from Bond Holdings and the COVID-19 Pandemic (December 21, 2021). A Framework for Selecting ESG-Labeled Bonds.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Participants were asked to focus on a critical problem for sustainable investing, namely how technology can be used to help “monitor, collate and identify” examples of greenwashing from financial services firms’ websites, social media platforms and other documentation or data that is able to be shared across jurisdictions.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Broadridge, ESG Book, Ada Fintech, Redington, Greyparrot.ai, and Viridios.ai. .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on proposals to clamp down on so-called greenwashing by, in effect, giving protected status to key terms connected with ESG-led investing. “It But at least with the new regime it will no longer be possible to bury caveats at the back of fund documents,” he said. Simplified regime.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A fortnight later, Chancellor Rachel Reeves launched a pensions review to foster investment, increase saver returns and tackle inefficiency in the pensions system. The document sought feedback on the introduction of mandatory asset allocation, suggesting schemes could be compelled to increase their UK investments.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The threats to rainforests have been increasingly well-documented over the past decade as over-use for mining, food production and other commercial purposes has intensified. The World Bank calculates that the percentage of the world’s surface covered by forestry fell from 31.6% Hopes for change in Brazil. in 1990 to 30.7%

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2022

In comparison, the ESRSs support multiple pieces of EU sustainable investment legislation. . The HSBC Bank (UK) Pension Scheme noted that enterprise value reporting is “backward-looking” and therefore of less use to pension funds. This is exacerbated by the effects of discounting (i.e.,

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“A number of asset owners have set their decarbonisation targets and are now realising they have to also support the transition and need to incorporate this into their sustainable investment strategies,” Nazmeera Moola, Ninety One’s Chief Sustainability Officer, tells ESG Investor. . The latter covers transition assets.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Earlier this month, Senate Banking Committee Republicans published a report which criticised the ‘big three’ asset managers – BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard – noting that ESG and diversity are “political movements unmoored from financial performance”.  .

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Goldman Sachs ‘s and Deutsche Bank’s DWS) for exaggerating claims about their products’ sustainability credentials. Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Impact investing is getting traction and, in 2022, reached 1.2

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Arguments throughout the two weeks of COP15, largely over financing, were largely allayed at the end, but the GBF too often lacked numerical targets and time-bound commitments for a document aimed at reversing decades of over-exploitation by the end of the decade. These are signals about what needs to happen on the ground. Finance showed up”.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 21, 2023

In 2022, investment per person in the LICs averaged a meager $175 USD per person, compared with $11,535 USD per person in the HICs (Moody's and World Bank, 2023). New Pilot Index Gauges Countries Support for Multilateralism.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 30, 2024

“BHRRC’s work comes at a time when major data providers are not sufficiently covering human rights issues in conflict-affected areas,” said Tulia Machado-Helland, Head of Human Rights and Senior Sustainability Analyst at Storebrand Asset Management. But Storebrand isn’t the only investment manager that has taken action in this field.

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ESG Today

APRIL 2, 2025

Deutsche Banks investment arm DWS has been fined 25 million ($USD27 million) over charges that it misled investors over its sustainable investing credentials, according to a statement released by the Frankfurt prosecutors office. DWS CEO Asoka Woehrmann resigned the following day.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 14, 2025

Carneys central banking experience, forged in the fires of the global financial crisis and Brexit, may prove priceless to the smallest Group of Seven economy when dealing with a volatile wielder of tariffs. But names and labels can matter, especially when applied to investment products. Whats in a name?

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 16, 2025

These new guidelines] will completely transform the ESG fund landscape, Hortense Bioy, Head of Sustainable Investing at Morningstar, told ESG Investor. Meanwhile, ESMA is expected to publish further SFDR guidance and a Q&A document later this year. A funds name is the biggest signal of intentionality.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 8, 2024

The regulatory fatigue is palpable among asset managers,” Hortense Bioy, Head of Sustainable Investing at Morningstar Sustainalytics, told ESG Investor. Last month, Dutch bank ABN AMRO found at least 16% of Article 8 and 9 funds were in breach of the new guidelines.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In March, the European Commission published the European Defence Industry Strategy (EDIS) a non-binding document outlining the policy direction for changes in the EU defence industry until 2035. Up for debate The commission has been keen to support closer relations between investors and defence contractors.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 8, 2024

The regulatory fatigue is palpable among asset managers,” Hortense Bioy, Head of Sustainable Investing at Morningstar Sustainalytics, told ESG Investor. Last month, Dutch bank ABN AMRO found at least 16% of Article 8 and 9 funds were in breach of the new guidelines.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The conservative policy document Project 2025 is a blueprint for how a Republican administration and Congress would dismantle sustainable investing, says Kyle Herrig, spokesperson for the ESG advocacy group Unlocking America’s Future. The bank started operations last month with the help of $5 billion in federal funding.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In reality, the rule is catching up to where the marketplace has been for years,” said Lisa Woll, CEO of the US Sustainable Investment Forum (US SIF). . The vast majority of the rest of the world continues to understand the fundamentals of responsible investment; they continue to not only incorporate them, but to accelerate them.

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