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BNN Bloomberg: Climate alliances backed by Wall Street heavyweights have struck upon a subtle way to blunt increasingly aggressive attacks by the GOP.
ESG Clarity: More than 50% of disabled consumers have encountered barriers to content, products, and physical and online retail services, according to research by The Valuable 500, the world’s biggest CEO collective.
Yahoo Finance: Britain's financial services regulator is looking at how investment banks and commercial insurers deal with sexual harassment, bullying and other non-financial misconduct amid complaints from alleged victims that they are often silenced or forced to quit.
GreenBiz: Before Republican tirades over the politics of sustainable finance became commonplace, one salient criticism of the movement was a different charge: that focusing on climate solutions through investment products distracts from the political engagement and regulatory changes necessary to tackle climate change.
Yahoo Finance: The world’s best-performing ESG fund of 2023 was built by Ark Investment Management LLC and powered by a huge bet on crypto. The $2.4 billion Nikko AM Ark Positive Change Innovation Fund (ticker NIPCIPJ LX) returned 68% last year, more than double the gains delivered by the S&P 500.
Chief Investment Officer: The movement against environmental, social and governance investing has had mixed, though generally negative, results for ESG investing strategies in name, if not also in practice, according to experts and asset manager filings.
The Guardian: More men than women were appointed to the boards of large financial services firms in Europe last year, even as nearly a third of companies risked falling short of the EU’s upcoming plans to impose mandatory quotas for women on corporate boards.
ESG Clarity: Support among asset managers for resolutions aimed at addressing environmental and social issues has crashed to a level not seen before in ShareAction’s fifth annual Voting Matters report, with only 3% of assessed resolutions passed in 2023.
Funds Europe: Political hostility to US ESG investing has dampened enthusiasm among American asset managers, while European counterparts maintain support for ESG-related shareholder proposals, according to Morningstar.
Hedge Week: The incorporation of environmental and social metrics into investment strategies is becoming increasingly common among hedge fund managers, according to a report by Bloomberg citing research by analysts at UBS Group.
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