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    ESG Criteria Crucial for Outperformance and Resilience – Especially in Crisis Year 2020, says LFDE

    2021-07-07

    Institutional Asset Manager: ESG criteria is an outperformance factor and an essential prerequisite for companies' resistance to crises, according to the latest "SRI & Performance Study by LFDE," conducted by French asset manager La Financière de l'Echiquier (LFDE) for the third consecutive year.

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    HSBC Asset Management Finances the Launch of Radiant ESG Global Investors

    2021-07-01

    Business Wire: HSBC Asset Management today announces that it is taking a minority stake in Radiant ESG, a US-based, ESG and diversity and inclusion (D&I) focused consulting firm co-founded by Heidi Ridley and Kathryn McDonald, former CEO and Head of Sustainable Investing at Rosenberg Equities, respectively.

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    JP Morgan Launches Three Sustainability Funds

    2021-06-30

    Financial Times Adviser: JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has launched three sustainability-focussed OEICs in what is its first UK thematic offering.

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    Morgan Stanley Investment Management Launches Global Balanced Sustainable Fund and Global Balanced Income Fund for UK Investors

    2021-06-29

    Institutional Asset Manager: Both funds are managed by the experienced Global Balanced Risk Control Team who focus on maintaining a stable risk profile, whilst making tactical allocations across regions and sub-asset classes to add further value.

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    FCA Consults on Tighter Climate Disclosure and “Topical ESG Issues”

    2021-06-22

    Funds Europe: The UK financial regulator is seeking to toughen climate-related disclosures for asset managers, saying the current system did not meet investor needs.

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    Pictet Appoints First Female Partner in Its 216-Year History

    2021-06-21

    BNN Bloomberg: Elif Aktug, a fund manager at the bank’s asset management arm and part of a broader leadership group, was named partner alongside Francois Pictet, bringing the number of current partners to 9, according to a company statement.

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    Climate Change: Emerging Market Investing and Net Zero Ambitions

    2021-06-17

    Funds Europe: At a recent Funds Europe roundtable, we asked panellists how investment can help emerging markets transition to net zero, considering the hurdles in the way.  

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    ESG Fund Assets Hit Record $1.4 Trillion in Europe Last Year

    2021-06-16

    BNN Bloomberg: More than half the money that flowed into European funds last year went into sustainable products, according to the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry, which represents the region’s biggest fund market.

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    Nordea Caps Flows Into $10 Billion ESG Fund as Demand Soars

    2021-06-10

    BNN Bloomberg: Nordea Asset Management says it’s trying to slow the flow of cash into its global climate fund amid seemingly insatiable demand for clean assets.

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    The UK Pension Industry Needs to Wake Up: Climate Change is Fundamentally an Economic Issue

    2021-06-10

    Institutional Asset Manager: Speaking on a live webcast hosted by pensions and investment advisory firm Isio, Topping, appointed by the UK Government to help drive action on climate change, stressed the responsibility the UK pensions industry has, over the next 10 years, to ensure the pool of GBP3 trillion of UK pension assets is invested sustainably.  

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