Chris Hall

APRIL 11, 2024

Founded in 2012, BSC ’s goal is to increase the amount of money invested in tackling social issues and inequalities in the UK. the social impact investment market is currently worth approximately £8 billion. The letter’s co-signatories included the Big Issue, Impact Investing Institute, and Snowball Impact Investment.

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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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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2023

At the time of speaking to EIOPA, 21 NCAs had not identified occurrences of greenwashing “due to resourcing constraints, low supply of products with sustainability features, and because the relevant sustainable finance requirements are new or not fully in force”.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 1, 2022

Net Purpose CEO Sam Duncan explains the need to bring more structure to sustainability data. A survey conducted by the Impact Investing Institute reveals growing interest. A survey conducted by the Impact Investing Institute reveals growing interest. We need more data and fewer scores,” she says.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 11, 2024

Founded in 2012, BSC ’s goal is to increase the amount of money invested in tackling social issues and inequalities in the UK. the social impact investment market is currently worth approximately £8 billion. The letter’s co-signatories included the Big Issue, Impact Investing Institute, and Snowball Impact Investment.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Climate change is the leading issue being addressed by US asset owners that incorporate ESG factors into their investment decisions, according to the US SIF Foundation’s latest biennial Report on US Sustainable Investing Trends.

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Sense and Sustainability

JANUARY 12, 2022

As Millennials drive the trend towards sustainability and responsible consumerism across multiple areas, it is no surprise that they are also making a bigger name for investing responsibly. Key Definitions What does it mean to invest responsibly? In other words, a positive impact is valued above financial returns.

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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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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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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

JULY 21, 2022

Sindhu Krishna, Head of Sustainable Investments at Phoenix Group, explains how the asset owner is holding managers to account. Krishna says: “We need to scrutinise [managers’] claims of impact investing thoroughly to ask how they define impact because there’s a range of definitions, and how they measure and report it.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

As we enter an age of double materiality, allocators all along the investment value chain may find themselves having to go back to first principles and rethink their entire approaches to asset allocation, portfolio construction, fund and security selection and engagement.

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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. In the U.S.,

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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”. Each definition includes a detailed explanation, a list of definitions from organisations that served as the primary inputs, and additional guidance for utilising these definitions in practice.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2022

As SDG-aligned impact investing grows, methods for measuring real-world outcomes are proliferating. . Time is running out to fulfil the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ensure an equitable world for the next generation. It’s definitely challenging.”. But the next step is more difficult.

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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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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 value of global sustainable investment assets jumped from US$23 trillion in 2016 to US$35 trillion in 2020.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

According to Morningstar data , 307 (40%) of Article 9 funds were downgraded to Article 8 in Q4 2022 due to regulatory changes and “uncertainty about how sustainable investments are defined”. Article 9 rebound? The funds downgraded in Q4 2022 were worth a combined €171.1

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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.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Global sustainable investment has passed US$30 trillion, but US excluded from majority of trend analysis figures due to “material change” in methodology. According to the GSIA’s data, the value of sustainable investments in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand has risen from US$18.2 trillion to US$21.9

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Investors are increasingly considering sustainability beyond the risk management lens, with the global impact investing market reaching an estimated US$1.64 These would require EU-domiciled funds with impact-related labels to meet an 80% sustainable investment threshold.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A recent benchmarking project conducted by Canadian asset owners found a marked gap between the fund-level disclosures of asset managers offering sustainable investments and evidence of firm-level commitment to and understanding of ESG integration. . The group of nine endowments, foundations and trusts awarded a C$104.5

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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Impact Investing Institute, ESG Book, SIX, Sustainalytics, ISS ESG, Marsh, Deutsche Börse and AirCarbon Exchange. The package includes a practical handbook, an explanatory legal paper and a set of case studies.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 20, 2024

Investment strategies that qualify for the transition category could build on taxonomy key performance indicators (KPIs) to reflect environmental performance improvements, transition plans disclosed by underlying assets, product decarbonisation trajectories, and appropriate exclusions.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

That target, McMahon says, creates opportunities for more asset owners to allocate to the notoriously competitive sustainable forestry and agriculture sector. “We We definitely see the ability to grow what we are doing,” he says. He adds: “We must be realistic. The funds] offer a mid to high single digit internal rate of return.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2022

In comparison, the ESRSs support multiple pieces of EU sustainable investment legislation. . The NZAOA called for EFRAG to clarify how the definition of value chain specifically applies to investors. . Investors ran into similar moments of confusion when perusing the ESRSs draft. .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Efficient, reliable and trusted benchmarks can cut the cost of sustainable investment, as they allow passive, index-based strategies to support sustainable investment objectives. Passive funds, she said, account for roughly 40% of all US sustainable investment assets under management.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This reclassification reflects an increase in “conscious conservatism” by Canadian asset managers in the absence of industry- or government-regulated definitions, criteria or standards, she says, causing many managers “to err on the side of caution” and strip the “responsible investment” classification from some of their portfolios. .

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 10, 2024

Despite appearances, sustainable investments have quietly had a great year. Given the poor performance of green energy stocks and the chorus of opposition against anything viewed as “woke,” it’s easy to get lost in the narrative that the shine has worn off sustainable investing. Tim Nash is the founder of Good Investing.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Common ground – Everyone on the supply or demand side of sustainable investing has been frustrated or inconvenienced by the shifting sands of the sector resulting from imprecise and evolving definitions.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

These regulatory moves are necessary for China to compete on the international stage on ESG, according to Dr Guo Peiyuan, Chairman of SynTao Green Finance, the founding organisation of China Sustainable Investment Forum (ChinaSIF).

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The definition of S is still up for grabs and, without a serious reflection on ESG to date, we run the risk of compounding the original sin of ESG: ignoring the issues that matter to people and planet but don’t directly affect the bottom line. And second, because the S in ESG remains woefully underdeveloped.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

This article looks at the definitions of impact investing (SRI or ESG investing), and features apps that make it easier than ever before to start an impact portfolio. I'm drawn to the newer apps that promise great user experience and impactful investment, however, investor beware!

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