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    Climate Change Related Regulation

    2019-02-13

    Colonial First State: In response to increasing legislation and policy, major economies have started regulating carbon and energy using a variety of approaches which will have differing implications for investors. 

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    Corporate Directors Downplay ESG Issues, Defying Investors

    2019-02-13

    Greenbiz: Close to 39 percent of directors responding to advisory firm PwC’s annual survey of this community said that climate change shouldn’t be taken into account when forming corporate strategy, and roughly 30 percent think shareholders pay too much attention to this topic.

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    Index Providers Respond to Controversial Weapons Campaign

    2019-02-14

    IPE: More than 140 asset owners, asset managers, wealth managers and other finance groups have asked major index providers to exclude manufacturers of controversial weapons from their mainstream indices. Will they get what they want?

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    Why Credit Ratings Need to Reflect ESG

    2019-02-11

    Top 1000 Funds: Credit ratings agencies are increasingly meeting demands from fixed income investors to better reflect ESG factors in their credit-risk analysis and bond pricing.

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    Fear Mounts that ESG Funds are in Danger of Mis-Selling Investors

    2019-01-22

    MoneyObserver: Almost all (97%) of advisers surveyed said they were either ‘very concerned’ or ‘fairly concerned’ about the potential for clients becoming aggrieved that their money is invested in a firm deemed unethical, despite being labelled as an ESG investment. In recent years, environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment products have exploded in popularity. The problem, however…

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    Asset Owners’ Climate-Change Advice

     2019-02-06

    Top1000funds: A comprehensive guide to climate change, written by asset owners for asset owners, gives practical steps for trustees and pension fund managers who are framing their activities on climate change...

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    Guide - Climate Change for Asset Owners

    Green Finance: Financing Environmental Benefits

    2019-02 

    IPE: Today, it is often about climate finance, for climate change mitigation or adaptation measures. The financing can come from both private and public sources. It is not only about discrete asset classes, but about cross-cutting activities such as risk analysis. One of the best-known facets of green finance are green bonds...

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    "We want gender diversity": Institutional Investors Tell Alternative Investment Firms

    2019-02-07

    Opalesque: Institutional investors in the alternative investments industry are driving efforts to improve gender diversity at the funds and portfolios they invest in. However, recruiting, retaining and advancing women is still the biggest challenge, finds KPMG's sixth Women in Alternative Investment's report…

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    The Challenge of Putting ESG Into Practice

    2019-02

    IPE: During a climate-change debate at the IPE Real Estate Global Conference in Milan last year, fund managers and investors effectively called on the real estate industry to provide better data on the energy efficiency of buildings. A number of certifications, such as BREEAM and LEED, already exist, but they tend to gauge how efficient a building could potentially be, rather than how efficient they are in practice...

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    BP Board Will Back Shareholder Push to Align Goals with Paris Climate Agreement

    2019-02-03

    MarketWatch: Oil major BP PLC’s board said Friday it will back a shareholder resolution at its annual meeting this year that would force the company to align its business strategy with the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

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