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BNN Bloomberg: Investment managers are cooling to indexes that were once viewed as a safe ticket to the highest ESG fund designation. Climate-transition and Paris-aligned benchmarks, intended by the European Union to help fund managers track some of the world’s cleanest assets, have had a bad run in recent months.
IEEFA.Org: Japanese regulators finalized the code of conduct for providers of environmental, social and governance (ESG) data and evaluation. The code is designed for voluntary adoption on a “comply or explain” basis.
BNN Bloomberg: Cash flows into US sustainable funds plummeted last year as the broader market took a beating and anti-ESG crusaders targeted money managers including BlackRock Inc. for “woke capitalism.”
Funds Europe: Questionable decarbonisation reporting by the UN-convened alliance of institutional investors committed to net-zero emissions could thwart efforts to reverse global warming, it is claimed.
Funds Europe: The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) has backed the first set of draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS Set 1), stating the regulations, which are meant to increase the quality of information in sustainable investing, are “broadly capable” of meeting investor protection, stability and sustainability objectives.
PR Newswire: AE Industrial Partners, LP ("AEI" or the "Firm"), a U.S-based private equity firm specializing in aerospace, defense and government services, space, power and utility services, and specialty industrial markets, announced that Jennifer Essigs has been promoted to Head of ESG, in charge of spearheading the Firm's increased commitment to supporting ESG initiatives at both the Firm and its portfolio companies.
Nasdaq: Britain's accounting watchdog said it will monitor whether auditors were making spot checks on their compliance with environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting requirements in company audits.
Morningstar: There were more dramatic changes in the way ESG funds were classified last year, and the final quarter of 2022 saw the biggest downgrade of the strictest sustainable funds since new disclosure rules came into place in 2021.
The Hill: House Republicans are creating a new working group to further their pushback against environmental, social and governance investing, known as ESG. A press release from the House Financial Services Committee announcing the group said it will be aimed at combating what they described as a “threat to our capital markets.”
PR Newswire: More than 80% of U.S. investors say that companies need to more openly communicate the risks and opportunities that shape their standing as "responsible investments" – and 73% also say they are more likely to invest in a company that shares with investors its plans for effectively managing those factors.
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