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    Temasek, EQT in $500 Million India Renewable Energy Venture

    2020-01-22

    Bloomberg: Singapore’s state-owned Temasek Holdings Pte and Swedish private equity firm EQT AB have formed a $500 million venture that will invest in solar and wind power generators across India.

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    Ping An Takes The Wheel For China’s ESG Drive

    2020-01-21

    Asian Investor: Ping An Group, parent company of China’s second-largest life insurer by investable assets, is playing a bigger role in driving environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, which is gradually gaining momentum in the country.

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    China: Companies Urged to Disclose More Information on ESG Risks

    2020-01-14

    Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: The ethical investment trend that has swept the developed world is making its mark in China, where authorities are urging companies to say more about their environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks.

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    Singapore State Investor Temasek to be Carbon Neutral by 2020

    2019-11-13

    Eco Business: The investment firm, which aims to halve the greenhouse gas emissions of its portfolio by 2030, will also report its consumption of electricity, water, paper and air miles from this financial year.

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    US Fund to Pull Small Japanese Firms Into ESG Era

    2019-11-12

    Nikkei Asian Review: U.S. private equity firm Neuberger Berman will create a fund that advocates for governance and sustainability reforms at small and midsized Japanese companies. Neuberger chiefly will seek enterprises valued at less than 500 billion yen ($4.57 billion). The fund will select 20 to 30 targets pending bottom-up due diligence. The new investment vehicle aims to draw capital from global pension funds.

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    Why ESG Investing is a Fiduciary Duty of Asset Managers

    2019-11-07

    The Asset: The debate on whether environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing is part of the fiduciary duty of an asset manager remains unsettled. But major asset owners and leading asset managers are coming out strongly in favor of ESG being part of an asset manager’s fiduciary duty, a development that may decide the issue sooner rather than later.

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    Green, Social Impact Influence Where Investors Put Their Dollars

    2019-11-04

    Live Mint: Every year, Harvard Business Review (HBR) publishes a list of the world’s 100 top-performing CEOs. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos topped the list in 2014 and has been on it every year—until now.

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    Center of Gravity of Sustainable Finance Is Swinging Towards Asia

    2019-10-02

    The Asset: While European institutions receive many plaudits for proactive initiatives in greening their economies, Asia will eventually be the home of the green financing revolution. The mature economies in Asia with their infrastructure well established are now weaning their populaces away from traditional sources of power such as coal, petroleum, natural gas, hydro, and nuclear power systems.

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    Japan's $1.5tn Pension Fund to Go All in on Green Bonds

    2019-09-25

    Nikkei Asian Review: Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund will begin allocating substantial amounts of money to bonds with an environmental purpose as early as the fiscal year beginning next April.

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    AIIB and Amundi Launch USD500m Climate Bond Portfolio

    2019-09-10

    Institutional Asset Manager: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and European asset manager Amundi, have announced a USD500-million Asia Climate Bond Portfolio which aims to accelerate climate action in the Bank’s members and address the underdevelopment of the climate bond market.

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