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    Investors Look To Increase Sustainability Exposure But Flag Key Risks

    2025-11-04

    Portfolio Adviser: Over 90% of EMEA investors plan to maintain or raise allocations to ESG or sustainable investments over the next 12 months, according to a Capital Group study, but investors also flagged geopolitical risk, economic growth and policy changes as top headwinds to these potential allocations.

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    MUFG, GCF-backed Climate Adaptation Blended Finance Fund Raises $600 Million

    2025-11-03

    ESG Today: The GAIA Climate Loan Fund, co-founded by MUFG Bank, FinDev Canada and the Green Climate Fund, announced that it has raised $600 million in commitments at its first close, with proceeds to be used to fund loans primarily for climate adaptation projects in climate-vulnerable markets.

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    Article 8 Fund Inflows Rebound, Article 9 Outflows Persist: Morningstar

    2025-11-03

    Funds Europe: Capital flows into Article 8 funds increased in line with overall market trends, while Article 9 funds continued to experience net redemptions, according to Morningstar’s data.

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    State Street Pulls Out of Net Zero Investor Group in U.S., Stays in Europe

    2025-11-03

    ESG Today: State Street Investment Management, one of the world’s largest investment managers, announced a significant change in its signatory status with climate-focused investment coalition the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, pulling out its U.S. business from the group, with only its Europe and UK businesses remaining.

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    Fidelity International Launches New Paris-Aligned Active Equity ETF

    2025-10-30

    ESG Today: Investment management firm Fidelity International announced the launch of the Fidelity Global Equity Research Enhanced PAB UCITS ETF, a new fund aimed at investing in global equities to achieve income and capital growth.

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    Amundi Expands ESG Range With Two ETFs

    2025-10-30

    Portfolio Adviser: The Amundi MSCI USA Screened UCITS ETF and Amundi MSCI World Screened UCITS ETF will sit alongside the recently launched Amundi MSCI Europe Screened UCITS ETF, therefore offering investors ESG-screened exposure to North American, European and global equities.

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    State Street Takes US Fund Arm Out of Climate Group

    2025-10-30

    Yahoo Finance: State Street, the world's fourth-biggest asset manager, said it is pulling the bulk of its operations out of the sector's main global climate coalition despite the group's efforts to retain members by relaxing its rules.

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    Net Zero Asset Managers Coalition Returns – Without 2050 Climate Commitment

    2025-10-30

    ESG Today: The Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, a major multi-trillion dollar group of investment managers committed to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions, announced that it will resume operations after pausing in early 2025 to adapt to a rapidly changing political and regulatory environment which had caused some of its largest signatories to exit the coalition.

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    US, Brookfield and Cameco Launch $80 Billion Nuclear Partnership to Power AI Growth

    2025-10-29

    ESG News: The United States government has entered into an $80 billion partnership with Brookfield Asset Management and Cameco Corporation—the Canadian co-owners of Westinghouse Electric Company—to build a new generation of nuclear reactors using Westinghouse’s AP1000 technology.

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    $1.6B in Clean Energy Investments Were Rolled Back in September: E2

    2025-10-29

    ESG Dive: Companies canceled or scaled back nearly $1.6 billion in clean energy projects last month, bringing the total amount of withdrawn investment to more than $24 billion so far this year, according to the clean energy advocacy group E2. 

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