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OCTOBER 20, 2022

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ESG Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

Anna ODonoghue, Global Head of Product Development and Governance, Schroders, said: We believe we are the first firm to publicly confirm the intended adoption of all four SDR labels across all the funds we have sought them for. billion sustainable investment mandate by UK wealth manager St.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Impact investing has found a foothold in donor advised funds. From affluent individuals and families to community and corporate foundations, donors are looking closely at the investment side of their philanthropic capital and investing charitable assets in ways that provide immediate benefit to those who need it most.

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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. SDG [UN Sustainable Development Goals] funds could be considered as impact funds, even though in reality they only have to meet sustainability criteria, said Bioy.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 3, 2022

Global urbanization offers a time-limited opportunity to work towards widespread climate-resilient development and transformational adaptation. This isn’t only good for the planet – it also benefits job creation, health, and equality. There needs to be an all-in approach in the built environment sector to deliver the critical 1.5oC pathway.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 14, 2024

Investors’ management, measurement and monitoring of impact investing strategies has been steadily improving. BlueMark identified significant improvement in how impact investors approached due diligence, with 65% conducting pre-investment assessments of impact-related risks and 42% establishing impact targets at the time of investment.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The European Investment Bank is on a new strategy to unlock $1.1 trillion for climate finance and sustainable investment over the next decade.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Investing in equality for women can potentially increase a company’s—and your portfolio’s—bottom line. DESCRIPTION: By Lily Trager, Wealth Management, Director of Impact Investing. While COVID-19 has impacted all of us, it has disproportionately affected women, especially women of color. Our expert explains.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Earlier this year, BFE launched its first ESG certification to better equip learners with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the growth in sustainable finance and impact investing.

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3BL Media

MARCH 7, 2022

Tweet me: Navigating the Canals of Water Investing by Garvin Jabusch and Betsy Moszeter of Green Alpha Advisors -- [link] || #water #ESG #impinv #climatechange #nexteconomy @AlphaVerde.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 30, 2022

Hosted on GIIN’s impact management platform IRIS+ , the beta Financial Inclusion Impact Performance Benchmark aims to provide data across a set of KPIs to assess financial opportunities, resilience and economic development within the financial services sector. billion in 2026. . universal access to clean water). .

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

RIA CEO Pat Fletcher sees this adjustment as a welcome development. . The growing trend to reclassify RI assets is happening around the world as regulators become more conscious of potential greenwashing and move against asset managers who cannot substantiate their responsible or sustainable investment claims. .

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

Asset owners need to demonstrate more flexibility and innovation in their approach to sustainable investing, according to leading asset owners speaking at the Alpha Summit event hosted by the CFA Institute this week. . Getting to grips with impact . New investment professionals have to be data savvy,” said Rubin. .

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Jon Hale

DECEMBER 10, 2021

End of Week Notes Spelling out terms and clarifying the scope of the field will produce better outcomes This was the year that sustainable investing became truly entrenched in the investment world. Assets continued to move into sustainable funds. include sustainable funds in retirement plans. It is not activism.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

Dutch firm’s fifth impact-focused investment strategy launches amid continued demand for Article 9 funds. ING Asset Management’s new SDG Impact Strategy will provide clients with exposure to companies that contribute specifically to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), responding to strong demand for ‘dark green’ investments.

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ESG Today

APRIL 11, 2024

Jaclyn Bouchard, EVP, Head of ESG Solutions & Corporate Responsibility at Preqin, said: “At Preqin, we look to empower anyone who invests in, allocates to or advises on ESG in Alternatives.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

France’s financial market regulator, The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) announced the results of a pair of studies into retail investors’ perceptions and expectations of responsible or sustainable financial products.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 17, 2022

Credit Suisse announced today the appointment of James Purcell as Head of Sustainability Frameworks, according to a memo seen by ESG Today and confirmed by a spokesman. Prior to this, he held different senior roles at UBS Wealth Management, including serving as Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investments.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“During the same period, there has been an explosion in the availability of information related to environmental, social, and corporate governance practices. “The combination of these factors enabled the investment management industry to develop new approaches and enhance existing ones.” With fund managers developing their own definitions and strategies (..)

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 9, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including OTPP, IOSCO, Legal & General, AXA IM, Persefoni and UKSIF. . Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board has appointed Anna Murray as Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable Investing.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Morgan EMU Investment Grade Index as a benchmark. Lorraine Sereyjol-Garros, Global Head of Development for ETFs & Index Funds at BNPP AM said: “Fixed income will be a big focus for investors looking to navigate a challenging market environment in 2024.

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ESG Today

JULY 10, 2024

billion across more than 140 impact investments on behalf of its various impact funds. North Sky has been at the leading edge of sustainable investing since that movement began in the private markets circa 2005. North Sky launched its first Impact Secondaries fund in 2013.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 6, 2024

Quantum computing technology company Riverlane announced today that it has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Article 9 growth equity sustainable investment platform Planet First Partners, with proceeds aimed at helping the company meet “surging global demand” for quantum error correction (QEC) technology.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Investments Leadership Development Program at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, U.S. Many have cited the past year as an inflection point for sustainable investing. Impact Investing and returned Peace Corps Volunteer. Gabrielle Xu. Finance is essential for advancing a clean, more just economy.

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ESG Today

JUNE 29, 2023

The firm said that the newly created role reflects the critical role that sustainable investment and decarbonization will play in driving future client returns. He will also take over the responsibilities of current Global Head of Responsible Investment, Justin Travlos, who is leaving the business towards the end of 2023.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 2, 2022

According to the firm, the fund is being launched as investors are looking to help address biodiversity and nature loss through long-term protection and restoration of sensitive habitats, with sustainable investing practices and nature-positive outcomes aimed at meeting client needs to go beyond net neutral strategies.

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Impact Investing Sustainable Investment Climate Change Decarbonize 113

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. But the next step is more difficult. But the next step is more difficult.

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Impact Investing Net Zero Development Sustainable Investment 98

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Last year, a report from the Net Zero Investment Consultants Initiative (NZICI) highlighted progress on the development and delivery of internal training programmes as well as net zero-focused client-facing materials and tools.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Ethan Talbot Schwartz 27, Toronto/Montreal consultant, CPCS Transcom As an associate with JCM Power, Ethan Talbot Schwartz led the development of renewable energy projects in Malawi, the world’s fifth-poorest country. There are more jobs in sustainability and impact than there ever have been,” says Perry. “A

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3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2022

The investment firm has spent more than two decades helping companies adopt climate-friendly business models which will continue this year with a focus on the phase-out of unabated coal generation by 2030 for developed markets and 2050 for developing markets, in order to achieve the goals, set out in the Paris Agreement.

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James Militzer

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2009, developed countries committed to mobilizing US $100 billion per year for climate action in developing countries by 2020. As of 2020, the annual SDG financing gap for developing countries stood at $4.2 They failed. trillion — up from $2.5 trillion pre-pandemic. The key elements of this blueprint are outlined below.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The new ETFs are the latest from DWS to track the Solactive ISS ESG Net Zero Pathway Index Series, followed by the launch of the first funds in the suite in March, focused on eurozone and developed market equities. The post DWS Expands Paris Agreement-Aligned ETF Suite appeared first on ESG Today.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nature Action 100’s Secretariat and Corporate Engagement workstreams will be co-led by sustainable investment focused organizations Ceres and the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). Dialogue between companies and investors then becomes fundamental to drive collective action.”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Venture capital firms struggling to define and measure impact, but integrating sustainable investment principles. . Despite rising private markets interest in impact investing solutions, adoption of standardised impact measurement frameworks remains low, according to specialist data and research provider PitchBook. .

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In recent years, impact investing has become mainstream and private equity (PE) firms are playing a key role. Despite being dismissed by some as “woke capitalism”, impact investing is a trend that is here to stay. PE firms have helped to grow the popularity of impact investing.

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ESG Today

JULY 1, 2022

Sustainable investment firm responsAbility and asset manager ESG Asset Management (ESG-AM) announced the launch of the Transition to Net Zero Bond Fund. As an example of the fund’s strategy, the investment firms highlighted its holdings in building materials company Holcim.

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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 ESG integration alone is not sufficient for inclusion.

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