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    Hines Unveils Ambitious New ESG Strategy, Building On Six-Decade Commitment To Sustainability And Placemaking

    2021-06-24

    Cision: Hines, the international real estate firm, has unveiled an ambitious new ESG strategy to elevate its commitments to environmental, social and governance issues, with a particular focus on the climate emergency, by accelerating its efforts to lead the industry in decarbonization of the built environment. 

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    How to Separate Real ESG Funds From the Not-So-Real

    2021-06-23

    BNN Bloomberg: Worldwide, there are more than 600 exchange-traded funds that claim to follow the principles of environmental, social and governance investing—in one way or another. But how many of them really do?

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    How One Allocator Embraced Racial Equity in Asset Management and Beyond

    2021-06-22

    Institutional Investor: About a year ago, the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor galvanized a response from institutions across the investment value chain, from corporations like Google to underwriters like Bank of America and from asset managers like State Street to asset owners like Trinity Church Wall Street. 

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    Blackstone Hires Global Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

    2021-06-22

    Business Wire: Blackstone announced that Devin Glenn has joined as Global Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). Glenn will be a Managing Director responsible for continuing to implement policies and initiatives that will help Blackstone achieve a more diverse and inclusive workplace at Blackstone and its portfolio companies.

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    FCA Consults on Tighter Climate Disclosure and “Topical ESG Issues”

    2021-06-22

    Funds Europe: The UK financial regulator is seeking to toughen climate-related disclosures for asset managers, saying the current system did not meet investor needs.

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    Pension Trustees Increasingly Rely on Investment Consultants to Deliver ESG Agenda

    2021-06-22

    Institutional Asset Manager: A new study from the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) and BMO Global Asset Management finds that, as ESG has risen to the top of pension trustees’ agendas, most trustees are relying on investment consultants for their schemes’ adherence to sustainability goals.

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    Mill Road Capital Launches Fund That will Push for Diversity Among Boards

    2021-06-21

    Investment Week: Mill Road Capital is set to roll out its Mill Road Progressive Governance fund in the second quarter of 2021, with an initial target of $500m.

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    Pictet Appoints First Female Partner in Its 216-Year History

    2021-06-21

    BNN Bloomberg: Elif Aktug, a fund manager at the bank’s asset management arm and part of a broader leadership group, was named partner alongside Francois Pictet, bringing the number of current partners to 9, according to a company statement.

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    Cathie Wood Blames Bitcoin’sFall on ESG and Elon Musk

    2021-06-17

    Institutional Investor: All it would take for bitcoin to reach a value of $500,000 would be for institutional investors to allocate just 5 percent of their portfolios to the cryptocurrency, according to Cathie Wood.

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    Cryptocurrency Venture Fund Launches to Focus on Black Startups

    2021-06-17

    BNN Bloomberg: Erikan Obotetukudo is starting what could be the first venture-capital fund focused on crypto startups and helmed by a Black woman.

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