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Institutional Asset Manager: Global institutional investors have significantly raised their ambitions to implement net zero commitments across portfolios over the last 12 months, whilst being increasingly aware of the challenges in meeting these targets, according to the latest edition of the Aviva Investors Real Assets Study.
BNN Bloomberg: Sovereign wealth funds are starting to take environmental, social and corporate governance issues a lot more seriously, in a sign that some of the world’s most influential investors may be ready to reallocate their vast fortunes in more planet-friendly ways.
Institutional Asset Manager: Asset owners are implementing initiatives that will shape equity and equality across the asset management industry, employing measures that track asset managers’ articulated mission and culture toward diversity and inclusion (D&I).
Proactive Investors: The number of smaller companies issuing economic, social, and governance (ESG) and sustainability reports is expected to grow in the coming years, according to its research by MBH Corporation PLC (OTCQX:MBHCF, ETR:M8H).
Institutional Investor: A recent survey of a “wide swath” of asset owners shows that pressure from their respective boards is the primary reason they’re working to incorporate environmental, social, and governance measures into the investment process.
Hedge Week: Fund managers and investors remain split over how they integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their risk and investment processes, with industry participants citing a lack of clarity over data reliability, comparability and standardisation as the main challenge.
Institutional Investor: While most women in asset management would like the hybrid work model to continue, not everyone thinks it will have a positive impact on their career — unless firms address some of the challenges, including helping to foster connections with colleagues and clients.
Business Wire: Asset managers are placing greater emphasis on active ownership of their investments and increasingly engaging on ESG issues with the underlying companies in their portfolios, according to a newly released survey conducted by Russell Investments. Ninety percent of respondents said they cover ESG in meetings with the senior management of companies that they invest in, up from 80% in the 2018 survey. Overall, 35% of respondents report they always cover ESG in their meetings, up from 21% in 2018.
Management Training News: Analysis of more than 4,300 hedge fund changes between July 1, 2020 and the 30% of hedge fund employees at all levels and in all functions in the US were male, compared with 74% in Europe / UK and 69% in Asia.
Institutional Investor: Against the backdrop of COP26, the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, a number of institutional investors — including prominent endowments at universities such as BU, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Loyola Chicago, UC Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota — have begun to divest from carbon-intensive assets.
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