Industry News: ESG (181)

US Institutional Investors Aim to Hire More Diverse Asset Managers Over Next Year

2021-09-06

Institutional Asset Manager: The Council on Foundations and Commonfund Institute surveyed 260 private and community foundations and endowments in the US, representing USD115 billion in assets.

SEC Chairman Gensler Orders Review of Funds’ ESG Disclosures

2021-09-02

BNN Bloomberg: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering more stringent disclosure requirements for investment funds amid concerns that some in the industry are making unfounded ESG claims.

Governance Outranks Climate in Pension Scheme Members’ ESG Priorities, Finds LGIM

2021-09-02

Institutional Asset Manager: The UK’s largest asset manager, Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM), has analysed the votes of individual members in its DC pension schemes.

Challenges Ahead as UK Pension Schemes Face Mandatory Climate Reporting

2021-09-01

Institutional Asset Manager: From 1 October, pension schemes with more than GBP5 billion in assets will be required to start reporting on the climate impact of their investments.

Carbon Offsets Are Next Big Bet for $3.2 Billion Tribeca Fund

2021-09-01

BNN Bloomberg: One hedge fund in Asia is betting big on the growing interest in carbon offsets to protect forests, as industries and policy makers start to make efforts to cut emissions.

Big Four Accounting Firms Rush to Join the ESG Bandwagon

2021-09-01

California News Times: The sustainability boom has transferred trillions of dollars to environmental, social and governance funds, bringing new stakeholder-led agendas to corporate executive offices.

Neuberger Berman Creates Europe ESG Role

2021-08-31

Funds Europe: Sarah Peasey is based in London and joins from Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), where she was head of responsible investment strategy – investments.

Public Companies in Asia Make Strides in Sustainability and Governance, but Challenges Persist

2021-08-31

Institutional Investor: The Asia-Pacific region’s notoriously low ratings on investment research firm MSCI’s environmental, social, and corporate governance scale are beginning to trend upward.

Amazon’s Biggest, Hardest-to-solve ESG Issue May Be its Own Workers

2021-08-29

CNBC: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos raised a few eyebrows this summer when he returned to Earth after a historic space flight in July and gave a speech thanking company employees and customers, “because you paid for all of this.″

Funds Holding $10 Trillion Are Told Their ESG Goals Fall Short

2021-08-21

BNN Bloomberg: The world’s sovereign wealth funds, representing about $10 trillion in combined assets, will end on the wrong side of history if they cling on to strategies that fail to acknowledge how rapidly the planet is overheating, according to the woman who presided over the Paris Agreement.

ESG Newsletter

US Institutional Investors Aim to Hire More Diverse Asset Managers Over Next Year

2021-09-06

SEC Chairman Gensler Orders Review of Funds’ ESG Disclosures

2021-09-02

Governance Outranks Climate in Pension Scheme Members’ ESG Priorities, Finds LGIM

2021-09-02

Challenges Ahead as UK Pension Schemes Face Mandatory Climate Reporting

2021-09-01

Carbon Offsets Are Next Big Bet for $3.2 Billion Tribeca Fund

2021-09-01

Big Four Accounting Firms Rush to Join the ESG Bandwagon

2021-09-01

Neuberger Berman Creates Europe ESG Role

2021-08-31

Public Companies in Asia Make Strides in Sustainability and Governance, but Challenges Persist

2021-08-31

Amazon’s Biggest, Hardest-to-solve ESG Issue May Be its Own Workers

2021-08-29

Funds Holding $10 Trillion Are Told Their ESG Goals Fall Short

2021-08-21

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