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Financial Times: When East Capital invests in a Chinese company, the asset manager runs through a checklist of 60 questions designed to gauge the target’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials.
Bloomberg: To everyone who's asked me some variant of "how's it going?" over the past month, I've probably lied. Or lacked the words to articulate it fully, but I’m giving it a shot.
Bloomberg: The world’s largest banks have issued billions in loans to sustainable businesses and taken some steps to restrict funding for some of world’s worst polluters. But the greening of global finance hasn’t reached the boardroom yet.
Institutional Investor: When investors use environmental, social, and governance factors to choose companies to invest in, they don’t outperform, research shows. But when ESG factors are combined with high employee satisfaction, shareholders reap the rewards.
Financial Times: The all-male boards of hundreds of Japanese companies face a mass shaming this month as investors prepare to vote against the leadership of companies that do not have any female directors. [Full article available to Financial Times subscribers]
Pensions & Investments: While climate change dominated many annual shareholder meetings so far this year, issues raised by the coronavirus pandemic, such as the treatment of workers and corporate boards' responses to the crisis, are expected to feature prominently in 2021.
Bloomberg: Australian investments in clean energy, conservation and other initiatives that have a positive environmental or social outcome are set to rise fivefold to A$100 billion ($67 billion) in the next five years, according to a survey published Tuesday.
Financial Times: A small cluster of hedge funds managed by women has outperformed those run by men through the coronavirus crisis, new data show, highlighting the industry’s long-running lack of progress in fixing its gender imbalance.
Oslo Pensjonsforsikring was established in 2000 by the city of Oslo as a life insurance company to manage the defined benefit pension fund for employees of the Oslo city council. As at March 30 2020, Oslo Pensjonsforsikring had NK 100 billion (US$ 11 billions) of assets under management.
The organization applies the exclusion list of GPFG, the Norwegian Oil fund, based on tobacco, controversial weapons, and climate criteria. Furthermore, as part of its Climate Change strategy, Oslo Pensjonsforsikring systematically conducts scenario analysis and measures the carbon intensity of existing and new equity investments to ensure that climate risks are accurately captured. As such, the life insurance company has set carbon intensity reduction targets of 40% by 2030.
The Asset: While there have always been investment opportunities in environmental risks such as typhoons, earthquakes, and floods, these have traditionally been long-term plays for institutional investors like insurance and reinsurance companies with extended horizons and plenty of cash.
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