Chris Hall

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Investors have been in limbo for six months about the future of the regulation, which provides guidelines on the disclosures required of green investment vehicles. InfluenceMap also reported that Article 8 funds had cumulatively invested 43.8 billion (US$46 billion) in fossil fuel companies compared to 39.4

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Environmental Finance

JANUARY 26, 2023

Industry experts have welcomed the UK Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) proposed Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and sustainable investment labels - but voiced concern at the potential impact of some of its definitions.

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Chris Hall

MAY 28, 2024

Between January 2020 and December 2021, the EU watchdog identified 191 European companies involved in 933 misleading communication incidents – 70% of which involved greenwashing. However, ESMA’s guidelines also require a more general alignment with environmental or social characteristics, or a sustainable investment objective.

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We Mean Business Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

The EU Green Taxonomy was designed to accelerate the flow of money into green companies and projects, while simultaneously protecting investors from greenwashing accusations. The EU Green Taxonomy represents an ambitious and commendable endeavour to guide financial flows towards sustainable companies and projects and combat greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2023

Article 9 funds are considered the most sustainable, requiring portfolios with 100 per cent sustainable investments. The advantages of Article 9 funds lie in their ability to provide clear signals to investors regarding their commitment to sustainability.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2022

Assets in European impact funds increased by 50% in 2021 compared to 2020, as demand for the classification increases in the wake of greenwashing claims against funds elsewhere in the sustainable investment universe. of total European funds’ net assets currently follow an impact investing approach.

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Jon Hale

JANUARY 7, 2022

End of Week Notes How Bloomberg Businessweek’s takedown of MSCI’s ESG Ratings got it wrong Sustainable investing has attracted its share of criticism lately. Further complicating matters, sustainable investing has not sprung forth as a unified, fully developed investment approach. To the contrary, this idea?—?that

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2024

David Byrns, Portfolio Manager at American Century, explains why transition investing is fundamental to achieving net zero. While global sustainable investments reached US$30.3 A unifying viewpoint among sustainable investors globally is that more sustainable businesses are also more valuable, almost by definition,” he said.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Asset managers require further support from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to meet the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements’ (SDR) naming and marketing rules for green funds, despite recent flexibility.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Risk of greenwashing. Accurate, comparable data is critical to prevent misallocation of capital away from transitional activities and any exposure of sustainable finance to the risk of greenwashing. Importantly, definitions of ESG-related factors should be clear and aligned with what any rating or score intends to measure.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Levick also noted that the taxonomy could be employed via initiatives such as a net zero test, which the UK might apply to all its public investment decisions, utilising the taxonomy to evaluate whether investments align with the its definition of ‘green’.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In such a crowded market, there are no standards for disclosure, transparency and quality, which raises concerns that greenwashing may go undetected. With various regulatory bodies globally initiating consultations on ESG ratings and data, regulation is definitely on the way. How do investors use ESG scores and ratings?

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B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

How Sustainable Finance Relates to CSR, SRI, and ESG Here’s a more formal definition of sustainable finance, involving three acronyms you’ll hear a lot about: CSR, SRI, and ESG. I consider sustainable finance as consisting of these three pillars or frameworks that guide the key actors.

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Jon Hale

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

With so many more people investing sustainably, and doubtless many more still on the sidelines, I’d like to see 2022 be a year marked by greater transparency to minimize gaps that I think are emerging between what investors expect and how funds are actually executing their sustainable investing mandates.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

Sustainable investing of every kind is to some degree geared towards addressing the biggest threats facing our planet and its inhabitants, which means our collective response must itself be monumental. In the absence of such a paradigm, ‘impact-washing’ is fast becoming the most duplicitous form of greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 1, 2022

We should be measuring common facts that people agree are important to achieve sustainable investment goals. SFDR’s Article 9 classification cover funds with sustainability or reduction in carbon emissions as their objective. “We need more data and fewer scores,” she says. Ratings are subjective.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Recent prominent media articles have warned of a bubble and criticized sustainable portfolios for being ineffective as agents of change. Sustainable investment funds are mushrooming. Assets under management in Morningstar’s global sustainable fund universe surged to $2.75 We think the critics have missed the point.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 13, 2023

In response to accusations of greenwashing and growing regulatory scrutiny, a group of high-powered financial networks is working to standardize the often-opaque jargon of the responsible investing industry. The conference was held at an important time for the responsible investment industry in Canada and around the world.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As the COP28 meeting begins and the world looks to the financial sector to step up on the climate crisis, the global sustainable investment industry is finally coming to grips with allegations of greenwashing that have plagued it for years. Under the new definitions in 2022, those assets are 14% lower at US$30.3

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Industry bodies align on key sustainable finance-related definitions to offer end-users greater “consistency and clarity”. The growing use of ESG-related language in fund names and documentation without transparency and underlying evidence increases greenwashing risk, ESMA warned.

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Chris Hall

JULY 3, 2024

Fidelity International has made revisions to its sustainable investing framework to adjust to a changing ESG regulatory landscape, aiming to provide investors with greater transparency on its funds. Last year, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority added a ‘ Sustainability Mixed Goals ’ label to its Investment Labels regime.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 27, 2023

Advisory group outlines its recommendations on addressing SFDR Article 9 downgrades and greenwashing regulatory uncertainty.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 31, 2023

A lack of engagement with key stakeholders and timing of greenwashing investigation among criticisms levelled at European Supervisory Authorities. Enforcement needed to tackle greenwashing Fixler said on LinkedIn that these actions “did more to tackle greenwashing than the entirety of SFDR [EU Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation].”

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Difficulties in definition continue to thwart efforts to demonstrate the financial benefits of sustainable investments. Sustainable fund flows attracted US$37 billion of net new money in Q4 2022, with global sustainable fund assets reaching a total of US$2.5

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ESG Today

JUNE 19, 2024

Switzerland’s Federal Council announced today that it will hold off on regulating greenwashing in the financial sector, allowing instead for the industry to monitor itself, following progress made by the sector’s associations in developing and implementing self-regulatory provisions.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Environmentalists may choose to invest in companies that produce durable products from natural materials. Terms like sustainable investing, impact investing, and ethical investing were used to describe this activity. These terms, however, lacked clear definitions.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

Greenwashing is a growing risk in the Chinese fund management sector, as marketing of ESG products runs ahead of standards and regulatory oversight, a new report by Greenpeace has found. China falls behind Greenwashing has emerged as a major problem in developed countries over the last decade with the rise of ESG-labelled funds.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2022

Asset managers should expect and prepare to be challenged on the sustainability credentials of their ESG-labelled funds as financial markets watchdogs clamp down on greenwashing, according to regulatory experts. . The SEC has also recently fined BNY Mellon Investment Adviser US$1.5

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 3, 2022

and Canadian banks and large investment managers. . Greenwashing is truly a clear and present danger.”. But in the last 12 months, there has been heavy criticism over the lack of climate action by GFANZ’s leading members, most notably U.S. Former U.S.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2024

European regulators have ratcheted up efforts to eliminate greenwashing from the investment sector. End of an era I – The fight against greenwashing inched ahead with the release of final guidelines for naming ESG- or sustainability-related funds by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

European efforts to bring transparency to ESG funds haven’t addressed fears of greenwashing. Almost a year since the European Commission introduced the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the European investment community remains divided over how to classify the ESG risks and impacts of their investments.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“One key benefit of transition funds is that they have huge flexibility and a wide variety of approaches, allowing for diverse strategies that target different sectors, regions or stages of the decarbonisation journey,” Rumi Mahmood, Research Director at the MSCI Sustainability Institute, tells ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Market participants flag importance of double materiality to enhance Article 8/9 definition alignment, stress need to recognise transition strategies. Risk of uncertainty French asset manager Mirova’s response said the current definition of Article 8 products is “too broad”, while the definition of Article 9 is “too narrow”.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

By Sustainable Fitch. Investor thirst for sustainable investments across all asset classes has seen fixed income issuance creation and supply skyrocket year-over-year to meet the demand. This comparison is essential to be able to execute investment strategies – exclusion, integration, tilt, best in class or impact.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Industry experts have stressed the need for simplicity and clarity around Europe’s ESG fund labelling, as the European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) consultation deadline looms. The SDRs were due to be introduced on 30 June, but following various delays are now expected in H2 2024.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Research by the European regulator shows that ESG-related named fund s attract more inflows , raising concerns about potential greenwashing. Mazzacurati noted that the introduction of SFDR did lead to more extensive disclosure in investment fund documentation concerning ESG characteristics or sustainable investment objectives.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 12, 2025

Hortense Bioy, Head of Sustainable Investing at Morningstar Sustainalytics, told ESG Investor that most of these name changes will take place over the next month. Jamie Broderick, Deputy Chair of the UKs not-profit Impact Investing Institute, says that this should come as no surprise. This could capture as many as 1,200 funds.

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