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    Fund Managers Face More Delays As EU Greenwash Rules Hit Hurdles

    2021-11-22

    BNN Bloomberg: Europe will likely delay a vital plank of its anti-greenwashing regulation for fund managers, as authorities overseeing the process get slowed down by the sheer complexity of the task, according to a person familiar with the process.

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    Large Uptick In Institutional Investors Committing to Net Zero Targets, Finds Aviva Investors Study

    2021-11-22

    Institutional Asset Manager: Global institutional investors have significantly raised their ambitions to implement net zero commitments across portfolios over the last 12 months, whilst being increasingly aware of the challenges in meeting these targets, according to the latest edition of the Aviva Investors Real Assets Study.

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    ECB Says Most European Banks Still Don’t Have Climate Strategies

    2021-11-22

    BNN Bloomberg: The European Central Bank has warned that most lenders it oversees have yet to produce concrete plans showing how they will change their business strategies to account for climate change. 

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    Sovereign Wealth Funds Dramatically Step Up Their Focus on ESG

    2021-11-18

    BNN Bloomberg: Sovereign wealth funds are starting to take environmental, social and corporate governance issues a lot more seriously, in a sign that some of the world’s most influential investors may be ready to reallocate their vast fortunes in more planet-friendly ways.

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    Asset Owners See Diversity and Inclusion As Most Critical Component of ESG Measurement Among Managers

    2021-11-17

    Institutional Asset Manager: Asset owners are implementing initiatives that will shape equity and equality across the asset management industry, employing measures that track asset managers’ articulated mission and culture toward diversity and inclusion (D&I).

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    Morgan Stanley Wants More Diverse Youths Working On Wall Street

    2021-11-17

    BNN Bloomberg: Morgan Stanley is introducing an initiative to draw more young people from diverse backgrounds to the finance industry, furthering its outreach efforts a week after appointing to the bank’s board its first woman of color. 

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    Citigroup Wins First Texas Muni-Bond Deal Since Gun Law Spat

    2021-11-17

    Yahoo Finance: Citigroup Inc. won a municipal-bond deal in Texas, marking its potential re-entry into a booming corner of the municipal-debt market after a new Republican state law sought to punish Wall Street banks for their gun policies.

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    BlackRock Sees Coal, Oil Power Projects Facing Investment Challenges

    2021-11-17

    U.S. News: Coal and oil-fired power generation projects will find it difficult to secure investments, BlackRock Inc. Managing Director Eduard Ruijs said.

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    Investors Bet Climate Adaptation Will Soon Be Profitable

    2021-11-17

    BNN Bloomberg: At this month’s climate talks in Scotland, a lot of time was spent condemning the shortage of money available to fight global warming.

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    MBH Research Predicts Increase In ESG Reporting from Smaller Companies

    2021-11-17

    Proactive Investors: The number of smaller companies issuing economic, social, and governance (ESG) and sustainability reports is expected to grow in the coming years, according to its research by MBH Corporation PLC (OTCQX:MBHCF, ETR:M8H)

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