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    Greenwashing A Problem for Fund Management Industry, Study Finds

    2021-12-09

    Investment Week: More than 85% of investors have said the fund management industry has a problem with greenwashing, while 81% want to see more standardisation of ESG reporting, globally.

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    Private Equity's Climate Footprint Gains Focus

    2021-12-09

    Axios: Driving the news: MSCI, the investment research and data firm, is out with its list of trends and topics to watch in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space.

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    PE Firms Are Making Diversity Efforts, But It Will Likely Be A Long Road

    2021-12-06

    Institutional Investor: One of the least diverse industries in finance appears to be putting some real muscle behind its promises of more diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

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    The Hot New Trend For Hedge Funds Is—Finally—Female Founders

    2021-12-03

    Yahoo Finance: When Mala Gaonkar and Divya Nettimi open their hedge funds in 2022, some bankers and investors expect they could each start with $1 billion or more under management. There has never been such a large launch by a woman-led firm, never mind two in the same year.

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    Global Alliance Launches ESG Book to Shape the Future of ESG Data

    2021-12-02

    Institutional Asset Manager: A global alliance of financial institutions, investors and businesses have announced the launch of ‘ESG Book’, a new central source for accessible and digital corporate sustainability information, with the aim of shaping the future of ESG data.

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    The ESG Market Is Controlled by a Few Big Investors

    2021-12-01

    BNN Bloomberg: About $120 billion flowed into these funds in 2021 as investors increase their bets on companies deemed to have the highest environmental, social and governance credentials.

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    59 Percent of Businesses Lose Work Due to Poor ESG Performance

    2021-11-29

    Institutional Asset Manager: Just under three out of five businesses says they have lost out on work as a result of ESG issues within their own company. A total of 59 per cent of senior executives across eight global sectors revealed that poor ESG performance is hitting their company hard.

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    Can Crypto be Green?

    2021-11-26

    Regulation Asia: When Elon Musk tweeted in May that Tesla would no longer accept vehicle payments made using Bitcoin due to the “rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions”, the debate around the environmental sustainability of cryptocurrencies reignited.

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    Top Asset Owners’ USD23 Trillion the Real Key to Unlocking Net Zero

    2021-11-23

    Institutional Asset Manager: The world’s 100 largest asset owners (AO100) grew by 15.7 per cent last year to reach USD23.5 trillion, according to new research from the Thinking Ahead Institute (TAI).

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    The Challenge for Asset Managers In the Climate Crisis

    2021-11-23

    Investor Daily: For all the wrangling over targets and commitments at COP26 in Glasgow this month, one thing is clear: the transition to a net-zero economy will require vast investment over the next few decades – and the asset management industry will be responsible for much of it.

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