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    Shareholder Group Pressures U.S. Banks to Drop Fossil Fuels Faster

    2021-12-16

    Nasdaq: Climate-focused investors are calling on the major U.S. banks to quickly scale back their financing of new fossil fuel development, saying current commitments by the banks to curb global emissions are not enough.

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    SBAI Publishes Report On Culture and Diversity for Smaller Asset Managers

    2021-12-15

    Hedge Week: The SBAI, a global alliance of alternative investment managers and allocators and custodian of the Alternative Investments Standards, has released the second in a series of reports on culture and diversity – Beyond the Metrics: Demonstrating and Assessing Diversity in Smaller Asset Managers.

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    Pimco, Fidelity Shun Net-Zero Alliance Embraced by BlackRock

    2021-12-15

    Yahoo Finance: A group of Wall Street giants has decided to sit out one of the industry’s biggest coalitions: the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero.

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    Cliff Asness’s AQR Adds Short-Selling Twist to ESG Investing

    2021-12-14

    BNN Bloomberg: Quant powerhouse AQR Capital Management LLC is planning a new ESG-focused mutual fund that will not only favor the best-behaved companies, but also punish the worst by betting against them.

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    BlackRock Adds Diversity Target for U.S. Boardrooms

    2021-12-14

    U.S. News: Top asset manager BlackRock Inc on Tuesday said it wants U.S. companies to aim for a board that is 30% diverse and, for the first time, contains at least one member from an under-represented group.

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    Wall Street Is Close to Triggering a Climate Financial Crisis

    2021-12-14

    BNN Bloomberg: If the financial-services industry was a country, it would rank as the world’s fifth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

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    What to Watch in Climate Finance Next Year

    2021-12-10

    BNN Bloomberg: The climate finance industry continued to grow rapidly this year. Having weathered Covid-19 and taken center stage at COP26, the trend seems unlikely to slow in 2022.

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    Brookfield Sees ‘Massive’ Opportunities in Energy Shift

    2021-12-09

    Yahoo Finance: Investors face an historic opportunity to put their money into renewable energy assets given the global consensus that now exists around the urgent need for decarbonization, according to Brookfield Asset Management Inc.

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    Greenwashing A Problem for Fund Management Industry, Study Finds

    2021-12-09

    Investment Week: More than 85% of investors have said the fund management industry has a problem with greenwashing, while 81% want to see more standardisation of ESG reporting, globally.

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    Private Equity's Climate Footprint Gains Focus

    2021-12-09

    Axios: Driving the news: MSCI, the investment research and data firm, is out with its list of trends and topics to watch in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space.

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