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Private Equity Wire: Invest Europe, an association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital, and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors, is to develop a coherent standard for how private equity and venture capital firms should report on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues - bringing harmonisation and transparency to essential ESG reporting for investors and regulators.
Institutional Asset Manager: Vanguard has filed an initial registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to introduce Vanguard Baillie Gifford Global Positive Impact Stock Fund, which is designed to meet the needs of investors seeking actively managed global equity returns along with measurable impact on environmental and social challenges.
Institutional Asset Manager: Franklin Templeton has appointed Anne Simpson as Global Head of Sustainability, a newly-created role charged with driving Franklin Templeton’s overall strategic direction on stewardship, sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategy globally.
Investment Week: Global ESG-labelled bond issuance is "poised to explode" over the coming decade, with issuances potentially reaching $4.5trn per year by 2025 alone, according to research by Pictet Asset Management and the Institute of International Finance.
BNN Bloomberg: Citigroup Inc. set new targets to reduce the carbon emissions it helps to finance, and said it would only drop clients if all else failed in the bank’s push to curb its impact on climate change.
Investment Week: Subscriptions into sustainable vehicles reached £37.1bn in 2021, exceeding the total market new inflow figure of £27.4bn, according to a recent Morningstar fund flows report.
Institutional Investor: West Virginia’s Board of Treasury Investments, which manages $8 billion in state operating funds, has dropped BlackRock money market funds from its portfolio, citing concerns over the firm’s focus on environmental, social, and governance investing.
BNN Bloomberg: Wall Street’s biggest investors are welcoming back oil and gas stocks, and not just because of their knock-out performance over the past 18 months.
BNN Bloomberg: Canada’s financial sector is facing a talent shortage in sustainable finance as demand for people who can evaluate ESG-related risks and opportunities far exceeds the supply, according to a new study.
Investment Week: DWS has unveiled an equity fund managed exclusively by women that will focus on environmental protection, good corporate governance and fair treatment of employees.
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