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    Industry Must Do More to Inspire Female Investors

    2022-02-03

    Funds Europe: Less than a third of women feel they have the confidence to invest some of their money, prompting calls for the industry to look at how they can better engage and inspire women.

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    How the Industry’s Fastest Growing Sector Is Pushing Managers to Change Their Behavior

    2022-01-31

    Institutional Investor: A small, but growing number of asset managers that run environmentally-sustainable funds are no longer simply lobbying for incremental changes like better disclosure. Instead, they’re becoming much more active, engaging and pressuring firms to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels and restructure to avert the worst of climate change. 

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    New Report Reveals How VC Firms Can Level the Playing Field for Black Women

    2022-01-26

    Private Equity Wire: Astia, a twenty year old organisation dedicated to levelling the investment playing field through intentional investment in women-led companies, has released the findings from a three-year pilot, which was launched when Astia first uncovered a racial bias within its investment decision-making process.

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    ESG Bond Issuance Set to Hit $4.5trn Annually by 2025

    2022-01-20

    Investment Week: Global ESG-labelled bond issuance is "poised to explode" over the coming decade, with issuances potentially reaching $4.5trn per year by 2025 alone, according to research by Pictet Asset Management and the Institute of International Finance.

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    Global Asset Managers Taking No Action to Stop Funding Deforestation

    2022-01-13

    Investment Week: Nearly two thirds of financial institutions have no commodity-specific policies to address deforestation risks in their portfolios, including the world’s three biggest asset managers, a report from Global Canopy, an environmental organisation has found.

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    Tie Pharma CEO Pay to Fair Global COVID-19 Vaccine Access, Investors Say

    2022-01-06

    U.S. News: A group of institutional investors representing $3.5 trillion in assets under management called on pharmaceutical companies to link their executives' pay to making COVID-19 vaccines available around the globe.

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    Asset Managers Signed Up to ESG Initiatives Failing to Vote Accordingly

    2022-01-05

    Portfolio Advisor: Asset managers signed up to initiatives such as Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) and the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative (NZAMI) are not using their voting rights to back climate adaptations at listed firms with members opposing a third of environmental resolutions this year, according to research.

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    Bank Fees for Green Debt Surpass Fossil-fuel Financing

    2022-01-05

    Financial Post: It’s official. For the first time since the unveiling of the Paris climate agreement in 2015, banks earned more fees arranging green-related bond sales and loans than they did helping fossil-fuel companies raise money in the debt markets.

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    Analysis-How 2021 Became the Year of ESG Investing

    2021-12-23

    U.S. News: Investors concerned about climate change and social justice had a bumper year in 2021, successfully pushing companies and regulators to make changes amid record inflows to funds focused on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues.

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    Anti-woke Strategies Emerge as Flipside of ESG

    2021-12-22

    InvestmentNews: As the asset management industry continues to fall over itself rolling out products tapping into the growing appeal of various environmental, social and governance causes, signs of new life are emerging in an anti-ESG niche category.

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