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    MSCI: Progress Toward 30% Female Board Representation Has Slowed

     2019-01-09

    Pensions & Investments: The latest annual "Women on Boards" report, which has run since 2014 and assesses gender equality on public company boards, showed that the index provider's projection will take longer to reach 30% representation, which will now be 2029 instead of 2027 as predicted in 2015.

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    ESG Roundup: SSGA Targets Corporate Culture, BlackRock Scolded on Climate

    2019-01-15

    IPE: The world’s third largest asset manager has written to more than 1,000 listed companies to tell them that corporate culture is top of its stewardship teams’ engagement agenda this year.

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    Cut Emerging Markets Some Slack on ESG, Says Fund Selector

    2019-01-07

    Citywire Selector: There was a time when ESG and emerging markets were a difficult, if not unrealistic, investment combination. Nowadays, sustainable investment is such an important and mainstream theme that those tapping developing economies are increasingly looking at these markets with ESG in mind.

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    Fitch Launches ESG Credit Rating ‘Relevance’ Scores

    2019-01-07

    IPE: Fitch Ratings has introduced a scoring system to show how environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors affect the agency’s individual credit rating decisions.

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    Sustainalytics Acquires GES International

    2019-01-09

    Cision: Sustainalytics, a global leader in ESG and corporate governance research, ratings and analytics, today announced it has acquired GES International, a leading global provider of engagement, screening and fiduciary voting services to institutional investors. With the two firms uniting, pension funds and asset managers now have access to a full suite of trusted, high-quality pre- and post-investment products and services. The acquisition combines Sustainalytics' market leading ESG research and ratings with GES' extensive engagement and screening services.

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