Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

SFDR Level 1 requires asset management companies to provide information about their investments’ ESG risks and also their impact on society and the environment. It lays down sustainability disclosure obligations for manufacturers of financial products and financial advisers toward end-investors.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Research predicts new demands on asset managers, as clients’ sustainable investment priorities mature. Institutional and intermediary clients’ sustainable investment demands are growing increasingly sophisticated, requiring managers to reappraise their skills and budget levels.

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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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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In fact, almost 85 percent of individual investors say they are interested in sustainable investing and more than three quarters believe they can use their investments to influence the extent of climate change. As a result, to feel better, these investors want to screen out problematic companies from their investment portfolio.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 13, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including NatureAlpha, Verdantix, Solactive, Minerva Analytics, Euronext, Joulea, and Clarity AI. index looks to respond to the growing demand for sustainable investment tools. The CAC SBT 1.5°

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Analytics Negative Screening Paris Agreement Sustainable Investment 52

Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The rise in ESG investment has contributed to an increasing demand for quality and comprehensive non-financial information disclosures. Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Impact investing is getting traction and, in 2022, reached 1.2

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Of the 2023 Clean200 companies, the information technology sector accounted for nearly a quarter of the total sustainable revenue at $586 billion, followed by the communications services sector ($542 billion) and the industrials sector ($400 billion). Apple and Alphabet, as last year, ranked first and second, respectively.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Although ESG investing is often lumped in as part of the broader impact investing ecosystem, it’s important to be clear about their differences at the outset. Could it be that over the long term ESG could come to be seen as a diet of cigarettes and alcohol to shrink a tumor?

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