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      Wall Street Quietly Turns Tail on Its Sustainability Commitments

      2024-09-12

      BNN Bloomberg: News emerged last week that Morgan Stanley had quietly shelved a central pillar of its sustainability strategy: a commitment to finance the cleanup and prevention of plastic pollution. 

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      85% of Companies Increased Sustainability Investments Over Past Year, as Execs Expect Direct Business Benefits: Deloitte Survey

      2024-09-12

      ESG Today: The vast majority of large companies across the world have been increasing sustainability-related investments over the past year, as C-suite executives have become more concerned about the impact of climate change on their companies, according to a new survey released by global professional services firm Deloitte.

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      94% of Investors Consider Defence Stocks ESG Friendly

      2024-09-12

      Portfolio Adviser: Defence companies were once shunned by environment, social and governance (ESG) investors much like oil and tobacco companies are, but attitudes have reversed dramatically in recent years – a new study by HANetf found that 94% of wealth managers now consider defence companies to be ESG stocks.

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      AllianzGI Raises €560 Million for Impact Credit Fund Supporting SMEs Addressing Environmental & Social Challenges

      2024-09-12

      ESG Today: Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) announced that it has raised €560 million in total commitments for its Impact Private Credit Strategy (IPC) at its first closing, more than half of the total sought for this effort.

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      Finnish Company Upright Launches the First-Ever Open Database on Science-based Impact of Funds

      2024-09-11

      ESG News: Upright has just launched a groundbreaking open database, the first of its kind, covering the science-based impact of over 35,000 mutual funds and ETFs worldwide.

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      CFA Institute Calls For Stricter ESG Fund Classification Standards

      2024-09-11

      Funds Europe: A report released by the CFA Institute Research and Policy Center, the global association of investment professionals, has called for greater rigour in the classification of ESG funds.

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      Goldman Stock-Picking Model Is Challenging ESG Assumptions

      2024-09-10

      BNN Bloomberg: At Goldman Sachs Group Inc., there’s an ESG filter that tells investors to buy coal giant Glencore Plc, and avoid Big Tech staples Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. 

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      Robeco Launches First High Income Green Bond Strategy in Credit Market

      2024-09-10

      ESG News: Robeco has unveiled its new High Income Green Bonds Strategy, becoming the first asset manager to offer an Article 9 green bond strategy in the credit market. 

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      An ESG Backlash Erupts in Europe on World's Strictest Rules

      2024-09-09

      BNN Bloomberg: For TotalEnergies SE Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne, the difference in the performance of his company’s stock and that of Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest US producer of oil and gas, is in no small part explained by an acronym: ESG.

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      BNP Paribas AM Launches US and Japan ESG Active Beta ETFs

      2024-09-05

      ETF Stream: The BNP Paribas Easy Sustainable US UCITS ETF and BNP Paribas Easy Sustainable Japan UCITS ETF listed on Euronext Paris with a total expense ratio (TER) of 0.20%. Both ETFs will be listed on Deutsche Boerse later this month.

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