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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Private Equity Wire: Recent estimates put the figure at around 200 standards globally, for reporting and assessing sustainability risks across fund portfolios. Many have little coordination between regulators, investors or across different jurisdictions.
ETF Trends: While environmental, social, and governance investing has become more popular, so has the concept of “greenwashing.” Greenwashing is when a money manager uses marketing and PR tactics to overhype their ESG efforts so they can seem more committed to socially responsible investing than they really are.
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