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    Fund Managers Brace for Correction As Greenwash Rules Go Global

    2021-10-13

    Yahoo News: Lucian Firth, an attorney who represents hedge funds and other asset managers on industry regulation, says his work life has been transformed by a new set of rules that prevent investment professionals from exaggerating the environmental and social credentials of whatever they’re selling.

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    Challenges and Opportunities: How Hedge Funds Are Grappling with ESG, Remote Working and the ‘Portfolio Conundrum’

    2021-10-08

    HedgeWeek: With traditional equity and credit returns set for a squeeze, and ESG, Covid-19 and remote working upending the hedge fund industry from both an investment and operations perspective, managers face both considerable challenges and sizable opportunities up ahead, speakers at EisnerAmper’s 6th annual Alternative Investment Summit said this week.

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    Non-Profit & For-Profit Leaders Form Novata, a New Technology Platform Designed to Streamline ESG Reporting Across the Private Markets

    2021-10-07

    Financial Post: Novata launched as an innovative new public benefit corporation and technology platform built to provide the private markets ecosystem, including private equity firms, with intuitive and effective Environmental, Social Good and Corporate Governance (ESG) measurement, data collection and benchmarking. 

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    Inclusion & Integration of Gender Lens Investing

    2021-10-04

    Private Equity Wire: Globally, Gender Lens Investing (or GLI) is gaining interest as more investors and financial institutions are adopting this as part of their investment strategy. Gender Lens Investing is very simply, an investment strategy that factors in gender analysis to advance equality and redress the gender imbalance within businesses.

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    He Helped Start the ESG Movement. Now He Wants to Fix It.

    2021-10-01

    BNN Bloomberg: Steve Lydenberg’s passion for social change was inspired by anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, consumer boycotts, and the movement to divest from apartheid South Africa. But he didn’t take to the streets. Instead, Lydenberg turned to the world of finance to help catalyze societal change.

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    Private Equity Industry Establishes First-Ever LP and GP Partnership to Standardize ESG Reporting

    2021-09-30

    Globe Newswire: Leading global general partners (GPs) and limited partners (LPs) today announced the creation of the ESG Data Convergence Project to advance an initial standardized set of ESG metrics and mechanism for comparative reporting.

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    Financial Returns Are Fuelling ESG Boom As Banks Scramble to Make Sustainability Gains

    2021-09-30

    Institutional Asset Manager: Financial return is the top driver for ESG financing decisions for 800 of the largest companies globally, with one in every four (25.3 per cent) citing it as the key motivation, according to a new report.

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    Once A Fringe Concern for Private Equity Firms ESG Is Rapidly Taking Centre Stage

    2021-09-29

    Private Equity Wire: These are boom times for private equity. In the first half of 2021, over USD500 billion worth of deals were announced globally, setting this year firmly on track to be the biggest in the industry’s history.

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    BlackRock’s Larry Fink Says Big Companies Shouldn’t Be the Only ‘Climate Police’ In the World

    2021-09-28

    CNBC: Big companies and banks shouldn’t be the only “climate police” in the world, says BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink, who called on governments and society to play their part in climate change.

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    A Climate Reckoning Is Coming for the World’s Government Debt

    2021-09-23

    BNN Bloomberg: For years climate scientists have warned about the ferocious wildfires and hurricanes that are now overwhelming many communities. Today alarms are ringing about a related financial danger: risks lurking within government bonds, the biggest part of the global debt market.

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