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Hedge Week: Credit and equity managers are leading the charge in regard to the consideration of diversity metrics when researching potential investments, Redington research has found.
Institutional Investor: A recent survey of a “wide swath” of asset owners shows that pressure from their respective boards is the primary reason they’re working to incorporate environmental, social, and governance measures into the investment process.
Money Management: In a global study of 369 asset managers, 95% of those in Australia and New Zealand said they integrated ESG factors into their investment, only two percentage points behind the UK and Europe.
U.S. News: European private equity firm Cinven said on Thursday it had mandated an external adviser to undertake a carbon footprint review of its operations and portfolio emissions as part of efforts to set a net zero target in 2022.
Hedge Week: Fund managers and investors remain split over how they integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their risk and investment processes, with industry participants citing a lack of clarity over data reliability, comparability and standardisation as the main challenge.
Institutional Investor: While most women in asset management would like the hybrid work model to continue, not everyone thinks it will have a positive impact on their career — unless firms address some of the challenges, including helping to foster connections with colleagues and clients.
Business Wire: Asset managers are placing greater emphasis on active ownership of their investments and increasingly engaging on ESG issues with the underlying companies in their portfolios, according to a newly released survey conducted by Russell Investments. Ninety percent of respondents said they cover ESG in meetings with the senior management of companies that they invest in, up from 80% in the 2018 survey. Overall, 35% of respondents report they always cover ESG in their meetings, up from 21% in 2018.
Yahoo Finance: From up high in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan is one of the only countries that can say it’s doing more to cool the planet than warm it. But the nation of fewer than 1 million people, dotted with lush mountains that absorb heat-trapping carbon dioxide, isn’t rewarded for its low emissions or shielded from the devastating effects of climate change.
Funds Europe: Climate-aware equity strategies are growing in number and in the approaches they employ. Sarita Gosrani, director of ESG at bfinance, talks about this evolution and some of the complexities for investors when evaluating one strategy against another.
BNN Bloomberg: Larry Fink is among Wall Street’s most outspoken leaders when it comes to climate change. He also just placed a bid on a major fossil-fuel asset.
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