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    Robeco Renames Multi-Asset Funds To Emphasise Sustainability Focus

    2024-04-16

    ESG Clarity: The Multi-Asset Income fund is now the Sustainable Income Allocation fund; the Multi-Asset Sustainable fund is now the Sustainable Diversified Allocation fund; and the Multi-Asset Growth fund is now the Sustainable Dynamic Allocation fund.

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    KPMG: Majority of U.S. CEOs Expect Significant Returns from Sustainability Investments Within 3-5 Years

    2024-04-16

    ESG Today: The majority of U.S. CEOs expect to see significant returns from their company’s sustainability investments within three to five years, and the corporate leaders continue to rank ESG as their top operational priority.

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    Texas Muni Borrowers Bemoan Anti-ESG Laws Restricting Banks

    2024-04-16

    BNN Bloomberg: Texas borrowers gathered at an industry conference bemoaned two Republican-backed laws in the state that issuers say have restricted which Wall Street banks they can do business with. 

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    UK Pension Schemes and Insurers Boost Sustainable Investments

    2024-04-16

    Funds Europe: 95% of UK pension funds and insurers in a survey said they expect to increase allocations to renewable energy assets over the next five years.

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    Europe Stands Firm Against Driven ESG Backlash

    2024-04-12

    XM: In the United States, conservative politicians have been successful in tamping down environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) product marketing, in diluting regulations that promote ESG disclosures, and in discouraging financial firms from co-ordinating on curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

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    EU Parliament Adopts Law to Establish Carbon Removal Certification System

    2024-04-11

    ESG Today: Lawmakers in the European Parliament voted to adopt a new law aimed at establishing a certification system to quantify, monitor and verify carbon removals, and to counter greenwashing.

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    Slow Progress On Companies’ Net-Zero Trajectories Despite Narrowing Disclosure Gap

    2024-04-11

    ESG Clarity: More listed companies are setting science-based targets, and emissions disclosures are growing, but companies’ decarbonisation trajectories still place them on a path to warm the planet by 3 degrees celsius, the latest MSCI Net-Zero Tracker report has revealed.

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    ESG Industry Will Withstand a Trump Victory, Impax CEO Says

    2024-04-09

    BNN Bloomberg: Investment funds focused on environmental, social and governance factors will be able to withstand a victory by Donald Trump in the US Presidential election this November, according to Ian Simm, the founder and CEO of Impax Asset management. 

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    Preqin Launches New Benchmarks to Assess Private Markets ESG Funds

    2024-04-11

    ESG Today: Alternative investment data and insights provider Preqin announced the launch of new ESG performance benchmarks aimed at enabling users to assess performance of private markets ESG funds, as well as SFDR, impact and climate funds.

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    Financial Firms Tout Energy Business After West Virginia Restrictions

    2024-04-09

    Yahoo Finance: West Virginia has added Citi, HSBC and two other financial firms to a list of institutions that may be barred from some state business due to their energy finance policies, prompting three of them to assert their commitment to that industry.

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