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    Female Portfolio Managers Made Almost $200K Less Than Male Peers Last Year

    2020-02-12

    Institutional Investor: Senior investment professionals at hedge funds and long-only firms earned an average of $825,000 last year — at least, the men did. Female portfolio managers and senior analysts made $630,000 on average, including base pay and bonus compensation.

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    Viewpoint: Investing in Green Doesn’t Equal Greening the World

    2020-02-10

    IPE: There is lots of debate about what constitutes a green financial service or product, and what more generally greenness amounts to. Most parties to that debate have assumed that holding green investments is sufficient to be green.

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    VC Firms’ Next Step After Hiring a Woman: Hiring a Second Woman

    2020-02-07

    Bloomberg: The number of venture capital firms with two or more female partners doubled last year to 14%, suggesting a cultural change is under way in one of finance’s most intractable all-boys’ clubs.

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    A $1.4 Trillion Asset Manager Is Zeroing In on Methane Leaks

    2020-02-06  

    Financial Post: Methane leaks are making the climate crisis worse faster, but companies and investors still find them hard to trace.

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    Why Hedge Fund Managers Say They Avoid Sustainable Investing

    2020-02-06

    Bloomberg : Hedge funds, many of which have been slow to adopt environmental and social strategies, are pointing the finger elsewhere. Money managers are faulting inconsistent data and a shortage of expertise.

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    Satellites Are Helping the Municipal-Bond Market Assess Climate Risk

    2020-02-06

    Bloomberg: The $3.8 trillion municipal-bond market has found a new tool in its effort to understand the impact of climate change: the array of satellites orbiting high above Earth.

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    A Dirty Cousin of Green Bonds Starts to Attract Money and Skepticism

    2020-02-03

    Bloomberg: Green bond investors, celebrating a landmark step toward establishing market standards, are starting to worry that the next big thing in sustainable finance could undermine those efforts.

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    Why Oaktree Is Scoring Companiesin Riskier Corners of the World

    2020-01-30

    Institutional Investor: Oaktree Capital Management has begun scoring companies in emerging markets based on environmental, social, and governance criteria, a move designed to give it a competitive edge in regions where ESG investing has lagged.

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    Investors Must Beware of Pitfalls Posed by ESG Ratings

    2020-01-30

    Investment Europe: The use of environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings has increased sharply in recent years and entered the mainstream investment arena. Such scores and ratings now constitute an important element of security, fund and mandate selection, which has led to strong growth in the number of ESG rating and data providers.

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    AM Giants' ESG Drive Could Put Cost Pressures on Companies

    2020-01-29

    Citywire Selector: Companies will have to face up to increased funding pressures and the prospect of ratings downgrades as the full weight of major asset managers going green comes to pass.

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