BNN Bloomberg: Generation Investment Management LLP is warning of the risks associated with a broad-based retreat from emerging markets, as Russia’s war on Ukraine leaves some investors rethinking their exposure.
Private Equity Wire: As part of its long-standing commitment to embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across its spheres of influence, Carlyle has created the Carlyle DEI Leadership Network, a coalition of the firm’s portfolio company CEOs around the globe to develop a peer group for shared resources, insights, and learnings to advance diversity, equity and inclusion within their respective companies.
Funds Europe: New research from Pensions for Purpose suggests that active asset managers opt for an easy life as most do not use climate benchmarks, despite their funds being labelled as 'climate-focused'.
Yahoo Finance: Russia's war on Ukraine continues to expose uncomfortable realities for environmental, social and governance-focused (ESG) investments, prompting calls for the asset management industry to rethink the loosely-defined term as analysts point to "shocking" holdings within some funds.
BNN Bloomberg: HSBC Holdings Plc promised to “phase down” its financing of the fossil fuel industry, sending a warning to oil and gas clients as the bank works toward its target of net-zero emissions.
Hedge Week: The SBAI, a global alliance of alternative investment managers and allocators and custodian of the Alternative Investments Standards, announced it has created a forum of alternative investment industry organisations committed to addressing diversity in the alternatives industry.
Institutional Investor: Since the U.K. launched the landmark Modern Slavery Act in 2015, global asset managers like Abrdn, BNY Mellon, and Lazard have pledged to remove modern slavery — a term that includes human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, and forced and early marriage — from their operations and supply chains.
Funds Europe: That is the conclusion of a new survey conducted by UK direct-to-consumer investment platform, Interactive Investor, among a sample of 2,058 visitors to its website earlier this month.
U.S. News: UBS aims to cut its financing of fossil fuel emissions by more than two-thirds by 2030, Switzerland's biggest bank said, joining lenders setting targets for the first time this year.
U.S. News: Switzerland's second-biggest bank reduced its exposure to emissions it financed in the oil, gas and coal sector by 41% between 2020 and 2021, preliminary estimates in its sustainability report showed, when it had some $2.6 billion in loans outstanding to such clients.
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