ESG Clarity: Excluding China, Asia ex-Japan recorded net inflows of roughly $622m in the first quarter of 2024, down from $1.7 billion registered in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to report by Morningstar.
ESG Today: More than 4 out of 5 professionals involved in corporate reporting say that collecting accurate data to comply with the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) will be a challenge.
Yahoo Finance: The Texas Attorney General’s staff met with municipal finance executives from Wells Fargo & Co. and RBC Capital Markets as Ken Paxton’s probe into whether the Wall Street banks “boycott” the fossil fuels industry drags on.
ESG Today: Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s alternative investment platform announced an agreement to acquire UK environmental risk reduction specialist Adler & Allan from private investment advisory firm Sun European Partners.
ETF Stream: DWS is set to launch a green real estate ETF in the second quarter of 2024 following growing investor demand for ESG products.
BNN Bloomberg: A long-held truism of ESG is being challenged, namely the idea that the strategy is best-suited to active fund management.
Funds Europe: Franklin Templeton has launched the Franklin MSCI World Catholic Principles Ucits ETF, offering exposure to large and mid-cap stocks of companies considered environmentally and socially responsible in developed market countries.
ESG Today: BlackRock and Temasek’s decarbonization-focused fund Decarbonization Partners announced that it has raised $1.4 billion at the final close of its inaugural fund, Decarbonization Partners Fund I, well ahead of the firm’s $1 billion fundraising target.
BNN Bloomberg: What was once the world’s biggest climate alliance for insurers is now being discontinued, after a wave of attacks by the Republican-led anti-ESG movement.
US News: European and American investors showed converse interest in sustainable funds during the first quarter, research firm Morningstar said, with a record $8.8 billion in net withdrawals from the products in the U.S.
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