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Yahoo Finance: From up high in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan is one of the only countries that can say it’s doing more to cool the planet than warm it. But the nation of fewer than 1 million people, dotted with lush mountains that absorb heat-trapping carbon dioxide, isn’t rewarded for its low emissions or shielded from the devastating effects of climate change.
Funds Europe: Climate-aware equity strategies are growing in number and in the approaches they employ. Sarita Gosrani, director of ESG at bfinance, talks about this evolution and some of the complexities for investors when evaluating one strategy against another.
Funds Europe: North American individual investors lead Europeans at ESG investment, according to research from Natixis Investment Management that revealed 28% of North American investors held ESG investments compared to 22% of European investors.
BNN Bloomberg: Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England and the co-chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, said there’s no reason investors pursuing low-carbon strategies should have to make do with lower returns.
Institutional Asset Manager: The FCA has therefore, outlined a revamped ESG strategy which will develop clear standards for sustainability, diversity and net-zero targets, build high quality information for market participants and financial services firms to rely on, and create a well-functioning ecosystem that ensures firms take ESG seriously, deliver on promises and avoid ‘Greenwashing’.
Hedge Week: The Marshall Impact Accelerator – which is being unveiled on finance day at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow and is scheduled to launch in spring next year – will provide philanthropic capital for innovative social ventures spanning environment, health, social inequality, public policy and developmental economics challenges.
Financial Post: Research from the Swiss Finance Institute argues stocks highly rated on environmental, social and governance metrics have outperformed in recent years all thanks to the trillions of dollars flooding the sector. The fundamentals of socially responsible investing have played no role in driving these returns.
Institutional Asset Manager: The inaugural ‘Responsible Capitalism’ survey, conducted in September 2021, found that for most institutional investors (88 per cent), ESG factors play a central role when making long-term investment decisions and are seen as more important than traditional financial metrics.
PwC: Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors increasingly drive investment strategies, and new research from PwC finds ESG has now become a make-or-break consideration for leading investors globally.
The Guardian: One of the world’s largest pension funds, ABP, is selling its €15bn-worth of holdings in fossil fuel companies, including Royal Dutch Shell, claiming it had been unable to persuade the sector to transition quickly enough towards decarbonisation.
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