ESG Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

The survey found that over 77% of investors reported being interested in sustainable investing, including 40% who are “very interested,” while 57% said that their interest has increased over the past two years, and 54% expect to increase the percentage of their portfolios allocated to sustainable investments within the next 12 months.

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ESG Today

JUNE 17, 2024

Tokyo-based banking and financial services company Mizuho Financial Group and global wealth and asset manager Lombard Odier announced the launch of a new “sustainability alliance,” including agreements to partner on sustainable investment products and solutions for Japan-based clients.

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ESG Today

MAY 23, 2023

David Helgerson, Managing Director and Co-Head of Impact at Hamilton Lane said: “Across our sustainable investment platform we are seeing a broad and diverse spectrum of investment opportunities in companies that offer compelling economic solutions to the problems of the world today.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Natixis Investment Managers today announced that it has appointed Laura Kaliszewski to the newly created role of Global Head of Client Sustainable Investing. Kaliszewski joined Natixis IM in 2020 and has been serving as Head of Sustainable Investment Solutions.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Investment management firm Fidelity International announced today the expansion of its sustainability team with two new senior hires, including Phil Cliff, joining from M&G Investments, and Aaron Hay, from Federated Hermes, as Directors, Sustainable Investing.

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ESG Today

JUNE 6, 2023

Global wealth and asset manager Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) and sustainability-focused system designer and developer Systemiq announced today a new partnership to launch holistiQ Investment Partners, a new sustainable investing platform within LOIM.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

Investment management firm Fidelity International announced today a new focused sustainable investment approach, targeting four systemic themes, including nature loss, climate change, strong and effective governance, and social disparities, which will drive the firm’s engagement approach towards influencing positive change.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 19, 2025

Billion Sustainable Investing Mandate from SJP Net Zero Investor Coalition Hits Pause After BlackRock Exit Exec Moves Mars Appoints Alastair Child as New Chief Sustainability Officer Barclays Head of Sustainability Steps Down Sodali Appoints Andrew Benett as New CEO

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

BlackRock Global Head of Sustainable Investing Paul Bodnar announced that he will be departing the firm, to join the Bezos Earth Fund. BlackRock has changed the way the financial sector thinks about sustainability. The fund has provided over 100 grants to date, allocating more than $1.6

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the organizations, the new resource follows significant growth in recent years in investor interest in ESG issues, driving a proliferation of investment products and practices, but also leading to new terminology that can be unclear or inconsistent.

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3BL Media

JULY 21, 2022

Tweet me: @NorthernTrust shares an open letter from Julie Moret, Global Head of Sustainable Investing and Stewardship. KEYWORDS: NASDAQ:NTRS, Northern Trust, esg investment. For the Northern Trust Asset Management entities included in AUM total, please see disclosure at end of this document. Read it here: [link].

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2023

Through this period, the top-quintile companies on sustainable investment posted median annual returns of 14% – vs just 2% a year for the MSCI ACWI. “Most investors used a diversified stock portfolio [such as the ACWI] to shelter their capital and hope for growth,” says Heaps. “Now

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It would create a focal point to engage the private sector to contribute to current and future priorities and to further accelerate the private sector’s focus on sustainability. The Office of Sustainable Finance and Business would develop a national strategy for U.S. leadership in sustainable finance and business.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A group of Japan-based financial and industrial companies, and France-based energy giant TotalEnergies announced the launch of the Japan Hydrogen Fund, dedicated to developing a low-carbon hydrogen value chain. for Carbon Neutrality, and the Bank of Fukuoka.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Gertler said U of T will divest from all direct investments in fossil fuel firms within 12 months, and divest from pooled investments by 2030. The university will allocate 10% of its $4-billion endowment to sustainable investments by 2025 (the “invest” side of DivestInvest).

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

DESCRIPTION: This article first appeared in Sustainable Investment: [link]. Sustainability disclosure and client demand is fundamentally changing how fund management teams operate. For Article 9 funds, investment teams rarely get away with outsourcing such activity. By Ian Povey-Hall. SOURCE: Acre. Here's how.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Material benefits such as supply chain efficiency and resilience and operating margins ranked within the top 5 benefits already being experienced by companies as a result of their sustainability efforts, compared with less tangible benefits such as brand recognition and reputation reported in the prior year survey.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

bank to commit to measuring and disclosing the climate impact of its loans and investments, announcing last week that it has joined a multi-trillion dollar group of global financial institutions developing a standardized method for carbon accounting. Morgan Stanley has become the first major U.S. trillion in assets.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 8, 2023

Shilpa Tiwari is executive vice-president of social impact and sustainability at Citizen Relations and the founder of Her Climb. In 2015, the United Nations established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a blueprint of 17 ways to make the world a more just, inclusive and sustainable place.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

European market infrastructure provider Euronext announced the launch of a series of ESG tools and sustainable finance-focused initiatives, including making issuers’ non-financial data available on its website.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Vanguard developed and promoted the Fund in response to market demand for investment funds having those characteristics. “By In the court’s ruling today, Justice O’Bryan said: “Vanguard’s contraventions should be regarded as serious. By its misleading conduct, Vanguard misrepresented the “ethical” characteristics of the Fund.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave? Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The capital will accelerate the development of enterprise-scale sustainability tools and expand global adoption of My Green Lab Certification, empowering laboratories to achieve measurable environmental and financial impact. SPOKANE, Wash., million in Series A fundingexceeding its target.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The acquisition follows the launch by Apollo last year of Apollo Clean Transition Capital (ACT Capital), an investment strategy with $4 billion in capital, aimed at investing in companies to provide capital for their transition to clean energy and sustainable industry. billion (USD$1.65

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3BL Media

MAY 4, 2022

We will be focused not only on our corporate sustainability efforts, which include reducing the organization’s greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing our reporting infrastructure, but also expanding our stewardship and sustainable investing practices across our global investment portfolios.” . Major 2021 CSR Achievements.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2023

Through this period, the top-quintile companies on sustainable investment posted median annual returns of 14% – vs just 2% a year for the MSCI ACWI. “Most investors used a diversified stock portfolio [such as the ACWI] to shelter their capital and hope for growth,” says Heaps. “Now

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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

AUGUST 2, 2022

Composed of senior representatives representing the firm’s diverse business functions — and, in turn, the breadth of our clients’ needs — the committee members include equity and bond research analysts, portfolio managers, and ESG and sustainable investing specialists. Additionally, risk professionals from EMEA and the U.S.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 15, 2025

Amr Abdel-Aziz, Chairman of Integral Consult in Egypt, added, COP is where decisions impacting climate, development, and economies are made. While the figure sounds monumental, the real valueadjusted for inflation and contributions from developing nationsis more modest.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 20, 2022

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

institutional investors, and 91 percent across six global markets, expect their firm to increase prioritization of ESG as an investment criterion, according to a recent Edelman Trust Barometer survey of institutional investors. Fully 96 percent of U.S. Three in four U.S. The explosive growth of green finance makes sense.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF), an expert group mandated by the European Commission to advise it on the development of sustainable finance policies, announced today the publication of a new report with comprehensive recommendations aimed at simplifying the EU Taxonomy.

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ESG Today

MARCH 18, 2024

The new hire follows LOIM’s launch last year of holistiQ Investment Partners , a new sustainable investing platform within LOIM, aimed at capturing sustainable transition investment opportunities, with a focus on the transformation of key economic systems such as energy, land and oceans, and materials.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

By targeting both leaders and laggards, the overall intention is to generate stable and positive – but “decorrelated” – returns from an investment universe focused on liquid stocks across global developed markets. The post Candriam Captures the Long and the Short of Sustainable Investing appeared first on ESG Investor.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 2, 2022

DESCRIPTION: CHICAGO, December 2, 2022 /3BL Media/ - United Airlines announced a strategic equity investment in Natron Energy, a battery manufacturer whose sodium-ion batteries have the potential to help United electrify its airport ground equipment like pushback tractors and operations at the gate.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 5, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Sustainable Investing Approach. We employ a rigorous analytical investment approach, leveraging quantitative and fundamental research and expertise to uncover financially relevant information that can impact a company’s performance. Four-Step Investment Approach. Collaborating with Investment Research.

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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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