Private Equity Wire: Strong and effective ESG policies can support GPs’ fundraising efforts by showing they are willing to go above and beyond for their investors and are also in touch with how new developments can impact their investment decisions.
Mintz: In recent years, companies and investment managers have increasingly considered environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) issues in corporate strategy and decision-making, whether in response to investor pressure or due to self-imposed changes via internal processes.
Institutional Investor: Critics often blame vaguely defined bad governance for the poor outcomes at many endowments, pensions, and other institutions.
BNN Bloomberg: As one of the world’s top-performing coal companies embarks on an expansion plan, investors who have pledged to target a low-carbon future are helping finance its growth.
Funds Europe: A group of asset owners and managers say a newly launched framework will deal with the "analysis dearth" regarding data about sovereign bond issuers and their emissions, climate policies and opportunities to mitigate climate risks.
BNN Bloomberg: Investment managers are cooling to indexes that were once viewed as a safe ticket to the highest ESG fund designation. Climate-transition and Paris-aligned benchmarks, intended by the European Union to help fund managers track some of the world’s cleanest assets, have had a bad run in recent months.
Funds Europe: Questionable decarbonisation reporting by the UN-convened alliance of institutional investors committed to net-zero emissions could thwart efforts to reverse global warming, it is claimed.
ESG Clarity: If it seems to you that the general question of “why does ESG matter?” is repeatedly asked, then that is a good indicator of its increasing prominence across the alternative assets industry.
Investment Week: Private market companies are baffled by ESG reporting requirements with 90% of companies held in private equity funds unsure how to report, according to a new study by KEY ESG.
Roll Call: Investors will ramp up their scrutiny of corporate political spending this spring with a specific focus on whether companies' advocacy and lobbying align with the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.
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