CFO Dive: Women worldwide are far from attaining equal status in the C-suite, holding only about 10% of the most powerful roles such as CEO, CFO and COO, JPMorgan Chase said.
ESG Today: BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) announced the creation of a new entity, the Venture and Impact platform, within its Private Assets division.
ESG Dive: The nation’s new stance on the SDGs surfaced during remarks made by Edward Heartney, a minister-counselor at the U.S. mission to the UN, on a resolution to create an “International Day of Peaceful Coexistence.”
ESG Today: Business leaders are seeing a wide range of value creation benefits from their companies’ sustainability activities, with more than 60% reporting improved employee attraction and retention, and half citing higher sales and lower costs.
Institutional Investor: Only 12 percent of portfolio managers globally are women and even the highest performing among them struggle to raise capital.
Funds Europe: Nearly 60% of senior UK decision-makers don’t fully understand carbon credits, despite their growing role in corporate net zero strategies, according to an Octopus Investments report.
Yahoo Finance: The United States has withdrawn from a climate coalition that pledged billions of dollars to help certain developing countries transition from coal to clean energy sources. The move marks the latest walk back from a climate deal since Donald Trump returned to the White House.
Funds Europe: Women’s representation in UK private equity (PE) and venture capital continues to rise in 2025, with 27% of investment professionals now female, up from 24% in 2023, according to a report by Level 20 and the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA).
ESG Dive: State Street Global Advisors has dropped a requirement for company board nomination slates to feature a certain percentage of women directors from its 2025 global proxy voting and engagement policy, per reports.
Yahoo Finance: As trans-Atlantic relations grow increasingly fraught, Europe’s ESG regulations are becoming yet another flashpoint that threatens to sour ties.
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