Funds Europe: A research report published by Funds Europe has revealed wide variations in the carbon footprint of the investment portfolios of Europe's largest asset managers.
XM: The European Union's securities watchdog is considering changes or clarification to incoming rules on the naming of sustainable investment funds, after investors warned they could make it harder for polluters to access cash they want to decarbonise.
Funds Europe: European real estate decarbonisation costs increase but remain achievable, according to a report from asset manager AEW. It is anticipated that this will be achievable for investors given AEW's projected annual return of 8.8% across all European prime sectors for the 2024-28 period.
ESG Today: The European Commission announced that it has sent letters to 17 EU member states, opening infringement procedures with the states over their failure to communicate that they have fully transposed the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) into their national laws.
Funds Europe: The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) recently celebrated its fifth anniversary at New York Climate Week by reporting annual emissions reductions of at least 6%, aligning with the 1.5°C pathway established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Portfolio Adviser: While 83% of European asset managers have measurable goals in place for gender equality, just 19% have a similar system in place for social mobility, a report from the Diversity Project Europe has found.
ESG News: Upright has just launched a groundbreaking open database, the first of its kind, covering the science-based impact of over 35,000 mutual funds and ETFs worldwide.
Funds Europe: A report released by the CFA Institute Research and Policy Center, the global association of investment professionals, has called for greater rigour in the classification of ESG funds.
BNN Bloomberg: For TotalEnergies SE Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne, the difference in the performance of his company’s stock and that of Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest US producer of oil and gas, is in no small part explained by an acronym: ESG.
ETF Stream: The BNP Paribas Easy Sustainable US UCITS ETF and BNP Paribas Easy Sustainable Japan UCITS ETF listed on Euronext Paris with a total expense ratio (TER) of 0.20%. Both ETFs will be listed on Deutsche Boerse later this month.
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