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    Alternative Credit Managers Launch ESG Integrated Disclosure Tool

    2022-11-09

    Private Equity Wire: A group of leading alternative asset managers and industry bodies in the private and broadly syndicated credit markets have launched the ESG Integrated Disclosure Project (ESG IDP) template.

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    How Blockchain Can Help Measure and Prove ESG Milestones

    2022-11-08

    Forbes: Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) has become one of the most discussed, debated and buzz-worthy topics of the past several years. Organizations face significant and growing demand to raise their standards and accountability across an array of issues that are widely viewed as ethical imperatives.

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    Apollo, Oak Hill Back New ESG Template to Shake Up Opaque Loans

    2022-11-08

    BNN Bloomberg: Heavyweight creditors including Apollo Global Management Inc. and Oak Hill Advisors are making a high-level push to encourage borrowers in the loan market to increase disclosures on everything from carbon emissions to board diversity. 

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    APAC Investors Look to China Long Term for ESG

    2022-11-07

    ESG Clarity: Asia Pacific investors are looking at China, rather than the US or Europe, as their most favoured destination for ESG investments over the long term, according to a survey from JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM).

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    ESG Fund Downgrades Spread as New Analysis Finds ‘Violations’

    2022-11-03

    BNN Bloomberg: Known as Article 9, the designation may be stripped from hundreds of funds in the coming months, industry estimates show. There are now signs that investment clients are starting to retreat, as fresh data points to a marked slowdown in flows. And on Thursday, a report indicated that some Article 9 funds hold assets that may violate UN and OECD standards on everything from bribery to environmental damage.

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    GPs Are Translating ESG Into Fundraising and Exits

    2022-11-03

    Private Equity Wire: Investec’s 12th annual GP Trends Survey, which took place between June and August 2022, showed that the vast majority (90%) of more than 150 GPs believe that their ESG credentials will influence the likelihood of LPs committing capital to their funds, with 40% of the 90% expecting it to matter to a ‘great extent'.

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    Canada Eyes New ESG Bonds to Finance Heavy Polluters Going Green

    2022-11-03

    BNN Bloomberg: Canada is considering furthering its reach in ethical securities, after making its debut in the green bond market earlier this year.

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    Ares Management Selects Novata to Support ESG Data Collection

    2022-11-02

    Private Equity Wire: Novata, an ESG data management platform built for the private markets, is to provide ESG measurement and analysis support services for some of Ares Management's (Ares) direct lending strategies.

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    ESG Investing Is ‘Totally Unstoppable’ UBS Chair Kelleher Says

    2022-11-02

    Yahoo Finance: The current challenges to ESG investing won’t stop investors’ focus on environmental, social and governance considerations, UBS Group AG chairman Colm Kelleher said at the Hong Kong Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit.

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    There Are Two Americas When it Comes to ESG

    2022-11-02

    BNN Bloomberg: The Windy City's retirement fund said it plans to sell all $350 million of its fossil-fuel holdings by the end of 2027, or invest enough in clean energy to fully offset its stakes in oil, gas and coal.

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