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    abrdn: Covid Halts ESG Progress for Second Year

    2023-03-06

    Funds Europe: Covid-19 continues to constrain ESG advancements across major economies, according to abrdn's Research Institute's Global Macro ESG Index.

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    ESG Funds Hit by ‘Staggering’ Inflows Head for Issuance Freeze

    2023-03-05

    BNN Bloomberg: The ESG fund class drawing in the most client cash has become too difficult to handle for a growing number of asset managers, according to lawyers advising the industry and analysts monitoring the market.

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    Connecting Female Hedge Fund Managers to Capital

    2023-03-03

    Morgan Stanley: Women in the hedge fund industry have made historic strides recently: In just the past year, hedge fund launches by women gained momentum, and two female hedge fund managers raised more than $1 billion each in assets, setting records for capital raised by women-led hedge funds.

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    ESG Funds Hit by ‘Staggering’ Inflows Head for Issuance Freeze

    2023-03-05

    BNN Bloomberg: The ESG fund class drawing in the most client cash has become too difficult to handle for a growing number of asset managers, according to lawyers advising the industry and analysts monitoring the market.

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    The Asset Managers Scoring Top Points for ESG… and Those That Need to Improve

    2023-02-27

    ESG Clarity: Robeco, BNP Paribas Asset Management, Aviva Investors and Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) have topped ShareAction’s ranking of asset managers on responsible investment credentials – but no group received the top AAA grade indicating improvements still need to be made.

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    SDG Investing Must Get More Sophisticated

    2023-02-22

    ESG Clarity: Failure in progressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is becoming a broken record. Every year, more capital is seemingly allocated to achieving them, yet every year we seem to move further from them. But investors are still keen to use the SDGs and more sophisticated approaches are emerging.

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    HSBC Says Greenwash Risks Have Potential to Impede Market Access

    2023-02-22

    Yahoo: HSBC Holdings Plc is adding “greenwashing” to a list of risks it says have the potential to affect a bank’s access to capital markets.

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    World Bank Touts an ESG Bond It Says Is ‘Immune’ to Greenwashing

    2023-02-22

    Yahoo Finance: The World Bank raised $50 million through a bond structure it describes as unique and free from greenwashing — a growing concern among investors — and said it is lining up more of these deals for later this year.

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    Bankers Whose Job Title Includes ‘ESG’ Are Dodging Wave of Cuts

    2023-02-17

    BNN Bloomberg: A wave of job cuts that’s swept through the global finance industry hasn’t affected demand for ESG specialists, where hiring growth continued through 2022, according to a study by Barclays Plc.

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    The Global Energy Crisis Pushed Fossil fuel consumption Subsidies to An All-time High in 2022

    2023-02-16

    IEA: Fossil fuel consumption subsidies worldwide soared in 2022, rising above USD 1 trillion for the first time, according to new IEA estimates, as turmoil in energy markets sent fuel prices in international markets well above what was actually paid by many consumers.

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