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    Most Pension Plans Don’t Think Net Zero Is Possible

    2022-05-11

    Institutional Investor: Some of the world’s largest institutional investors are still unsure about the prospect of net zero, even as voices arguing for sustainable investing have grown louder.

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    T. Rowe Price Joins Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative

    2022-05-05

    3BL CSRWire: T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (NASDAQ-GS: TROW), today announced it has joined the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAMI) to support the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner, in line with global efforts to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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    Hedge Fund Boss Chris Hohn Rips Into Failed ESG Strategies

    2022-05-05

    BNN Bloomberg: Hedge fund boss Chris Hohn slammed ESG fund managers who claim they’re forcing companies to pollute less through so-called engagement strategies. 

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    Cash Keeps Flowing Into ESG While Markets Tank

    2022-05-04

    Yahoo Finance: Even with the worst April slump in the S&P 500 since 1970, money keeps pouring into ESG-labeled funds at a seemingly unrelenting pace.

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    Asset Managers Face Crackdown on Passive Funds Over CO2 Claims

    2022-04-29

    BNN Bloomberg: Asset managers will no longer be able to exclude all passively invested funds when estimating their carbon footprint, if they want their emissions goals verified by the United Nations-backed Science Based Targets initiative.

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    Upper Echelons of Global Finance Still Very Much a Man’s World

    2022-04-28

    BNN Bloomberg: Women are making hardly any progress in landing top jobs in the global finance industry, despite a steady drumbeat of pledges to diversify, according to a new report.

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    Appealing to Ethics Won’t Win Managers Over to ESG. Money Will.

    2022-04-26

    Institutional Investor: Not surprisingly, for many asset managers, the amount of importance they place on environmental, social, and corporate governance in their investment analysis isn’t motivated solely by altruism.

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    Climate Crisis? Fund Managers Are Sticking With Fossil Fuel

    2022-04-20

    BNN Bloomberg: None of the world’s largest asset managers has definitively called on fossil-fuel companies to stop the development of new oil and gas projects.

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    ESG Investors Getting Trounced in Global Credit Market Rout

    2022-04-13

    Financial Post: The recent credit market selloff has been particularly hard on sustainable debt, challenging the popular premise that investors can do well and do good at the same time.

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    Wealth Advisers Risk Failing Investors on ESG Suitability

    2022-04-13

    The Asset: Wealth advisers risk failing investors on suitability by not using appropriate technology to measure environmental, social and governance (ESG) preferences and being caught up in the “green rush”, behavioural finance experts warn.

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