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    Investment Consultants to Play "Crucial" Role In Investment Industry’s Push for Net Zero

    2021-09-21

    Institutional Asset Manager: A group of investment consultants with USD10 trillion in assets under advice, including Willis Towers Watson, Redington, and bfinance, have pledged to integrate net zero alignment across all their investment advice within the next two years.

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    Private Market Allocators Are No Longer Taking a ‘Wait-and-See’ Approach to ESG

    2021-09-20

    Institutional Investor: Private market investors have been slower than their public market peers to adopt environmental, social, and governance strategies — but that’s starting to change.

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    The Number of Female Founders in Asset Management Hasn’t Changed Much Since 1993. Marcia Page Wants to Fix That.

    2021-09-20

    Institutional Investor: When Marcia Page co-founded Värde Partners in 1993, she was one of the few female asset management owners. Thirty years later, not much has changed for women and minority groups in the industry — and Page has decided to do something about it.

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    ESG Goes Up in Smoke at L&G in Handling of Philip Morris’s Vectura Bid

    2021-09-16

    Evening Standard: LGIM bowed out with a whimper, announcing in a mealy-mouthed statement that it was agreeing to sell its 3.7% stake in the inhaler maker to Philip Morris International (PMI), the manufacturer of Marlboro cigarettes.

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    Ontario Teachers’ Targets 45% Cut in Carbon Emissions by 2025

    2021-09-16

    BNN Bloomberg: The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is aiming for a 45% reduction in the amount of carbon its investment holdings release into the atmosphere by 2025 as part of an effort to reach net-zero emissions within three decades.

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    Over 300 Female Managers Picked for 100 Women in Finance’s Flagship Cap Intro Event

    2021-09-16

    Hedge Week: 100 Women in Finance, the 20,000-member global industry association for hedge fund, alternatives and investment management professionals which aims to empower women within the global finance industry, has picked more than 300 female fund managers to participate in this year’s Global FundWomen Week, its annual flagship capital introduction event taking place from 20-24 September.

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    Sustainable Investments Could Make Up Majority of Global Private Wealth Portfolios in Coming Years

    2021-09-15

    Institutional Asset Manager: Research from Global Impact Solutions Today (GIST) and Barclays Private Bank, looks at data from 300 private wealth holders from 33 countries, with an average of USD833 million assets under management. 

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    Hedge Fund Activist Jeff Ubben Asks SEC to Mandate Carbon Pricing Disclosures

    2021-09-14

    Institutional Investor: Jeff Ubben, the activist hedge fund manager who founded Inclusive Capital Partners a little more than a year ago, is calling for the Securities and Exchange Commission to make companies include a price for carbon as part of their climate-related ESG disclosures.

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    Fund Managers and the Path Towards Net Zero Emissions

    2021-09-14

    Hedge Week: At the Paris Climate Change Summit in December 2015, 189 countries reached a binding international agreement on climate change, with the aim of “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.”

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    Engine No. 1 Unveils ESG Framework to Scrutinize Investments

    2021-09-13

    BNN Bloomberg: Engine No. 1, the activist investor that forced a board shakeup at Exxon Mobil Corp. to accelerate a move to clean energy, unveiled a new strategy using environmental, social and governance data to assess investments.

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