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    What Happens When a Company Is a Climate Hero and a Governance Disaster?

    2022-09-07

    Institutional Investor: In a paper titled “The Hidden ESG Risks of Feel-Good Companies,” Adam Fleck, Morningstar’s director of equity research in ESG, argued that investing in stocks with high impact in areas like clean energy or gender equality doesn’t preclude exposure to ESG risks.

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    JPMorgan Product Reveals Wall Street’s Shifting Views on ‘ESG’

    2022-09-07

    BNN Bloomberg: A new ESG product that JPMorgan Chase & Co. is about to start offering clients shows how rapidly perceptions are changing about the investment strategy.

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    Markets Test Top Pensions’Commitment to ESG

    2022-09-06

    Institutional Investor: Even as the largest pension funds in the world grapple with macroeconomic challenges, they are still stepping up their commitments to environmental, social, and governance mandates. 

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    Strive Asset Management Sends Open Letter to Chevron to Deliver a Post-ESG Mandate

    2022-09-06

    Business Wire: Strive calls on Chevron to liberate itself from constraints imposed by its ESG-promoting "shareholders" and to focus exclusively on maximizing long run value for the company's ultimate owners.

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    More Than Half of FTSE 100 Companies Now Have ESG Committees

    2022-09-04

    BNN Bloomberg: A dedicated ESG committee can help a company speed up the push toward net-zero goals, lower emissions faster and boost investments in carbon offsets. Better ESG credentials, in turn, can improve a company’s eligibility for ESG-focused funds, raise the liquidity of its shares, and support the stock price.

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    India’s New ESG Rules to Address Corporate Green Washing

    2022-09-02

    BNN Bloomberg: India’s new environmental rules will help eliminate green washing by requiring companies to submit detailed emissions data starting next fiscal year, according to KPMG India’s ESG head.

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    Feeling Sad? You’re More Likely to Put Money Into ESG Funds

    2022-09-01

    BNN Bloomberg: A paper from researchers at Audencia, the Auckland University of Technology and the University of Adelaide found that when investors were feeling pessimistic or depressed, they made greater investments into sustainable assets.

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    Can CalSTRS Keep Politics Out of the Pension’s Net Zero Plan?

    2022-09-01

    Institutional Investor: The California State Teachers’ Retirement System wants to keep investments and politics separate, but its plans to cut its portfolio’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 could make that difficult. 

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    Super Funds Query Investment Manager’s Links to Anti-ESG Foundation in US

    2022-09-01

    The Sydney Morning Herald: Some of Australia’s largest superannuation funds are being urged to review their partnerships with an investment manager facing a backlash for sponsoring a Republican-aligned, climate-change sceptic foundation in the US.

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    Article 9 ESG Fund Manager Outperforms All Counterparts

    2022-09-01

    Funds Europe: A portfolio manager at Triodos Energy Transition Europe Fund grew by 50%, outperforming its Article 9 competitors in the first seven months of 2022 based on Europe's most stringent sustainable fund category.

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