ASIC: ASIC has lodged civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court against Vanguard Investments Australia, alleging misleading conduct in relation to claims about certain environmental, social, and governance (ESG) exclusionary screens applied to investments in a Vanguard fund.
Private Equity Wire: ESG executives’ scope of responsibilities is expanding exponentially as regulatory and investor demands continue to rise. Critical to their success is leadership buy-in and building a keen understanding of which ESG metrics are relevant to their particular strategy.
Wealth Management: While environmental, social, and governance investing continues to increase in popularity, important questions remain about its practical significance.
Benefits and Pensions Monitor: CDP has issued a warning regarding potential regulatory fragmentation in ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) ratings globally. In recent years, various policy initiatives have emerged with the aim of regulating ESG ratings.
Business Times: More than 70 per cent of asset managers said that sustainable bond structures are their first means of raising capital to help meet their net-zero targets, according to a survey by banking group NatWest.
ESG Clarity: Assets under management sitting in ESG Ucits funds is on track to exceed €7.9trn by 2025, predicted PwC, despite fewer funds coming to the market.
BNN Bloomberg: Funds tracking the UK’s main stock index are exposed to considerably more environmental and social harm than those following other major benchmarks in Western Europe.
Business Insider: BlackRock has drawn the ire of conservatives ever since the world's largest asset manager came out in favor of investing with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in mind — a style dismissed by its right-wing critics as "woke."
Funds Europe: A group of 36 financial institutions managing over €3.3 trillion in assets has released a joint statement calling on governments to refrain from deep-sea mining until its potential risks are understood.
BNN Bloomberg: A former HSBC Holdings Plc banker says one of the most criticized sustainable bond structures on Wall Street has the potential to dominate the roughly $6 trillion ethical debt market.
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