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    Urgent Progress Needed on Company Climate Disclosures, G20 Task Force Says

    2022-10-13

    Nasdaq: More companies provided climate-related financial data to investors during 2021 but urgent progress is still needed, the G20's Taskforce on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) said.

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    New Regulations Needed for ESG Ratings, Says EFAMA

    2022-10-13

    Funds Europe: The European Commission has been urged to develop an EU regulatory framework for ESG ratings by the voice of the European investment management industry. 

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    MAS Names New Head of Expanded Sustainability Group

    2022-10-13

    Business Times: Tan’s new role is an addition to her current position as assistant managing director (development & international), a title she has held for the past two years. She will replace Dr Darian McBain, who is leaving MAS in December.

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    Canadian Securities Regulators Consider Impact of International Developments on Proposed Climate-related Disclosure Rule

    2022-10-12

    CSA: The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) is actively considering international developments and how they may impact or further inform the proposed climate-related disclosure rule published in October 2021.

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    BlackRock's Fink Defends Energy Investments Amid Criticism from 'Left and Right'

    2022-10-12

    U.S. News: Larry Fink, chief executive of the world's biggest asset manager BlackRock Inc, on Wednesday defended his firm's energy investments after facing a backlash from lawmakers critical of its stance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

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    Buyout Giants Draw More Than 200 Investors to a Key ESG Effort

    2022-10-12

    Yahoo Finance: A year after California Public Employees’ Retirement System and Carlyle Group Inc. started an effort to collect sustainability data on private equity, 215 investors have joined as they seek to determine how it will shape returns moving forward.

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    AllianceBernstein Announces Erin Bigley as Chief Responsibility Officer

    2022-10-12

    Cision: AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. (NYSE: AB) and AllianceBernstein L.P., a leading global investment management and research firm, announced Erin Bigley has been named as the firm's Chief Responsibility Officer.

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    Regulations and Recession Fears Are Making Managers Rethink ESG

    2022-10-11

    Institutional Investor: Forty-eight percent of asset management CEOs plan to pause or reconsider their ESG efforts over the next six months, according to KPMG’s 2022 U.S. CEO Outlook, which is expected to be published. Thirty-one percent of the CEOs said they had already done so.

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    Banks Run by Women Lend Less to Big Polluters, ECB Study Finds

    2022-10-10

    BNN Bloomberg: Banks with more gender-diverse boards lend less to more environmentally harmful companies, according to research by the European Central Bank.

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    Biggest Africa Fund Manager Aims for Net Zero, Plans Statement

    2022-09-29

    BNN Bloomberg: Africa’s biggest fund manager, South Africa’s Public Investment Corp., said it’s aiming to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and its “climate change position statement is currently moving through internal governance committees for approval.”

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