ESG Today

JULY 1, 2024

Jenn-Hui Tan, Chief Sustainability Officer at Fidelity International said: “We have long been committed to sustainable investing and have continued to evolve our approach and capabilities in line with client requirements and ESG regulations.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Asset owners urged to set holistic goals, managers encouraged to innovate, after GIIN report highlights measurement challenges. Impact investing is becoming a central strategy for large asset owners globally, but divergence remains over how asset managers balance financial risk and return expectations with their clients’ impact-related goals.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 6, 2020

Long-term value creation may be the watchwords of this new capitalism. What’s The post The Brief: What we’re watching in 2020, southern credit unions, inclusion alpha, Nordic impact, resilient seeds, clean water access appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 28, 2022

Seemingly at odds with the 2021 update of the Integrated Reporting Framework , the ‘integrated thinking principles’ are explicit about: a purpose aligned with the needs of society; and governance oversight of value creation for the organisation and key stakeholders. Governance.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 6, 2020

Long-term value creation may be the watchwords of this new capitalism. ImpactAlpha is on the lookout for signals that global and local capital markets are shifting from exclusion and extraction to inclusion and regeneration.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Liudmila Strakodonskaya, Responsible Investment Analyst, AXA IM, said: "Nature protection is a challenge that needs to be addressed to preserve the existence of our societies and global economies. We ultimately aim to develop a comprehensive approach for companies to decouple shareholder value creation from further biodiversity loss.”.

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Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

One expression of this is what we call the “single-asset paradigm” of impact investing: the idea that a single technology, project, or enterprise can bring about structural change in society. In this way, systemic investing invites us to reimagine and evolve how impact investment—and finance more broadly—could work.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

She has also served as a member of the Swedish Bankers Association’s Sustainability Council, as well as the Swedish National Advisory Board for Impacting Investing. Brown’s newly created role will involve role spearheading the Pensions for Purpose impact investment training programme.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

The capital raised by a diverse group of pension funds, insurance companies, foundations and endowments will contribute to the firm’s efforts to incorporate the UN SDG framework into shaping its investment and value creation strategy to drive long-term value. Impact investing, or what we call Private Equity 4.0,

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Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 24, 2024

This combination of social and financial returns, or “ blended value ,” was adopted initially by actors in the venture philanthropy and impact investing spaces.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Van der Werf acknowledged that portfolio managers do not currently have the information they need to understand the materiality of nature to long-term value creation and destruction. . This is an under-appreciated element of engagement,” he said. Companies must change, but investors must also change.” .

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Just Capital

JUNE 2, 2022

Cambria will be leading JUST’s investor stakeholder and financial markets strategy, cultivating industry partnerships and initiatives with key market actors in the asset owner, asset manager, and sustainable and impact investing communities. I’ll start with the investor perspective.

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James Militzer

JANUARY 11, 2022

Reimagining Access to Capital: While India is fast becoming a focal point for impact investing, much like in other parts of the world, the pool of investors remains limited to sectors such as education and financial inclusion. Policy cannot be created without context-specific mapping — both qualitative and quantitative.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 1, 2024

Although the overwhelming majority of the Church Commissioners’ assets are UK-based, the fund does have some holdings abroad – including forestry investments in the US. I work with a team that is intent on taking action, and I’m lucky that I get to spend time on what that actually looks like,” he said.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Working in the firm’s Total Fund Management’s Investment Division, Murray will take a leadership role in supporting Ontario Teachers’ long-term plan to create a lasting, positive and sustainable impact while creating value for members.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 9, 2024

“If there are areas where we are severely unable or even ineffective at achieving change, understanding the limitations of responsible investment can allow us to focus more on the issues that we can change,” Martindale said. Responsible investment is consistent with long-term enlightened value creation.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Consumer-focused private equity firm L Catterton announced today the launch of a new impact investing platform, aimed at investing in and growing mission-driven consumer companies seeking to make the economy cleaner, healthier, and more equitable.

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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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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The foundation is collecting feedback on its upcoming standards, as new research aims to define impact value creation. The International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) has said it would aim to make the impact accounting standards it is currently developing complementary to existing sustainability ones.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

To positively contribute to global social and environmental targets – such as those outlined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – asset owners are increasingly adopting impact investment strategies. They are not speaking to the in-depth social value creation metrics investors want to think about,” Pomroy said.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Impact investing is getting traction and, in 2022, reached 1.2 trillion in AUM, according to a report by the Global Investing Network. Consequently the information ESG investors are seeking is changing too.

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Just Capital

AUGUST 5, 2022

The pressures inflation heaps on business does not mean stakeholder value creation needs to take a back seat. The Ford Foundation President Darren Walker went on CNBC to report the success of the foundation’s impact investing program , which has provided greater financial and social returns. Be well, Martin Whittaker.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2023

Increased stakeholder awareness of the impact corporations have on the environment means investors are increasingly making decisions based on non-financial data, and supporting practices that result in long-term value creation. Better MI and reporting around ESG can also help manage downside risk.

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Just Capital

DECEMBER 4, 2024

At its core, this expanded assessment allows fiduciaries to perform due diligence and assess issues before they become problematic to company operations, as well as better understand the drivers of growth and value creation.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The businesses understand that if they take the time and build out the programme, it’s part and parcel of the value creation that we’re working on across the business,” Bubnack explained. “It It’s already quite an impactful movement in the US.” The post Impact Investing in Quality Jobs appeared first on ESG Investor.

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