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    SBAI Publishes Report On Culture and Diversity for Smaller Asset Managers

    2021-12-15

    Hedge Week: The SBAI, a global alliance of alternative investment managers and allocators and custodian of the Alternative Investments Standards, has released the second in a series of reports on culture and diversity – Beyond the Metrics: Demonstrating and Assessing Diversity in Smaller Asset Managers.

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    Norway Wealth Fund Calls On Companies to Act On Climate

    2021-12-01

    Financial Post: Norway’s $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund will ask many of the companies in its portfolio to take more specific action on climate change, its head of governance and compliance said.

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    France Appoints Amundi's Perrier to Head Financial Sector Climate Commission

    2021-11-25

    Nasdaq: French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in a statement that he has asked Amundi's AMUN.PA Chief Executive Officer Yves Perrier to head a coordination commission for the financial industry's climate change efforts.

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    HSBC Launches Indexes That Screen Firms for Biodiversity Risk

    2021-11-23

    BNN Bloomberg: Investors looking for ESG strategies have been handed a new group of indexes promising to focus on biodiversity by excluding companies that are found to pose a threat to nature.

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    Fund Managers Face More Delays As EU Greenwash Rules Hit Hurdles

    2021-11-22

    BNN Bloomberg: Europe will likely delay a vital plank of its anti-greenwashing regulation for fund managers, as authorities overseeing the process get slowed down by the sheer complexity of the task, according to a person familiar with the process.

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    ECB Says Most European Banks Still Don’t Have Climate Strategies

    2021-11-22

    BNN Bloomberg: The European Central Bank has warned that most lenders it oversees have yet to produce concrete plans showing how they will change their business strategies to account for climate change. 

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    Investors Bet Climate Adaptation Will Soon Be Profitable

    2021-11-17

    BNN Bloomberg: At this month’s climate talks in Scotland, a lot of time was spent condemning the shortage of money available to fight global warming.

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    Alternative and Multi-asset Managers Behind the Curve On Diversity Engagement

    2021-11-16

    Hedge Week: Credit and equity managers are leading the charge in regard to the consideration of diversity metrics when researching potential investments, Redington research has found.

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    ESG Uptake By Asset Managers Reaches 95%

    2021-11-12

    Money Management: In a global study of 369 asset managers, 95% of those in Australia and New Zealand said they integrated ESG factors into their investment, only two percentage points behind the UK and Europe.

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    Cinven Appoints External Adviser for Carbon Footprint Review

    2021-11-11

    U.S. News: European private equity firm Cinven said on Thursday it had mandated an external adviser to undertake a carbon footprint review of its operations and portfolio emissions as part of efforts to set a net zero target in 2022.

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