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Responsible-investing trailblazer awarded Order of Canada

Corporate Knights

I first met Moira Hutchinson in 1987 when I was working on the first of my series of books on responsible investment. She was generous with her time and provided a wealth of insight into “ethical investing,” as responsible investing was known then. . Climate change cannot be addressed by only changing your portfolio.

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Veteran to Helm Impax’s Nordic Strategy

Chris Hall

Copenhagen-based Kristensen will account for regional variations in effort to deepen direct institutional relationships with sustainability-focused manager. The latter can explain different attitudes on key sustainable investment issues, such as allocations to armaments and energy, shaped both by past and more recent events.

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Sovereign Wealth Funds’ Social Focus

Chris Hall

If a company can get 10% of its financing from a SWF and 30% from a development bank, then it becomes much easier for the business to attract the rest of the financing from a private capital source,” said Nacvalovaite. They can also lead in the adoption of best practices, such as governance, transparency and ethical investment.

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This Week’s People Moves: ESG Lead for Real Assets Appointed by Church Commissioners

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including the Church Commissioners for England, EFRAG, Ninety One, Rathbone Greenbank Investments, Lombard Odier Investment Managers and Epworth Investment Management. The Church Commissioners for England , which manages a £9.2

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ESG squeezed between Republican attacks on ‘woke capitalism’ and climate investors

Corporate Knights

Republican denunciations of sustainable investing are an absurd caricature of the industry, but they have helped to expose the confusion and lack of standardization in ESG assessments, making the industry and the money managers that rely on them vulnerable to attacks from both climate-concerned investors and business-as-usual conservatives. .

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Due Diligence Needed by Europe’s New Defence Investors

Chris Hall

When European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled a new defence investment plan, she explicitly highlighted the role of banks and investors. They have called on the finance sector to treat weapons manufacturers as ethical investments.