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IPE: The Church of England Pensions Board (CEPB) and Denmark’s MP Pension have co-filed a shareholder resolution with the world’s largest mining company BHP, calling for it to suspend its membership of industry associations whose lobbying activities are not in line with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.
Top 1000 Funds: Shareholders, including institutional investors, were at the core of the obsession with short term returns by corporates, and are key to its reversal, according to Sir Winfried Bischoff chair of the UK regulator, the Financial Reporting Council.
Funds Europe: BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has transformed its flagship fund range to become fully sustainable in accordance with strict new criteria.
IPE: Guy Opperman, UK pensions minister, is on a mission. And that mission has to do with climate change and UK pension schemes. Recently, in various contexts, he has made clear that he sees the latter as having a role to play in reining in the former.
IPE: Sweden’s third state pension buffer fund, AP3, has announced new sustainability targets in its interim report. The fund pledged to double its investments in sustainability and green bonds by 2025, and also to halve its carbon footprint within the same timeframe.
Investment Europe: NN Investment Partners (NN IP) has strengthened its Responsible Investing (RI) framework to include a stringent definition of ESG integration which sharpens focus and increases positive results for investors.
IPE: Two leaders of Norway’s domestically focused sovereign wealth fund have called for more work into the effects of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors in fixed income management.
Top 1000 Funds: Pædagogernes Pension is in the process of consolidating and reducing the number of managers in its listed equity portfolio. The decision at the fund which has around 10 large, focused equity mandates is linked to an ambition to reduce the number of companies in the portfolio in the belief that fewer companies in the 42 per cent equity allocation which is all actively managed allows greater ESG oversight.
IPE: The €2bn pension fund of Dutch financial regulator De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) plans to fine-tune its policy on responsible investment, aiming for an investment portfolio with a 30% outperformance on ESG.
Top 1000 Funds: On June 18, 2019 the EU expert group for sustainable finance (TEG) published a proposal for a European definition of environmentally sustainable activities. The taxonomy is best compared to a green encyclopedia for financial market participants.
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