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Insurance Journal: Global banking regulators agreed to intensify efforts to better understand the financial risks posed by climate change amid pushback from the United States.
ESG Today: State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), one of the world’s largest investment managers, announced the launch of its new Sustainability Stewardship Service, offering institutional clients with the ability to follow a sustainability-focused engagement and proxy voting framework.
Banking Dive: The British bank appointed Julian Wentzel — who has worked at HSBC for almost a decade — as its new chief sustainability officer in February.
Institutional Investor: A perfect storm of geopolitical challenges and an intensifying ESG backlash has led investors to pull a record amount from global sustainable funds in the first quarter.
Portfolio Adviser: Sustainable funds suffered their worst outflow on record in the first quarter as investors globally withdrew a record-breaking $8.6bn throughout the period, according to Morningstar Sustainalytics.
ESG News: Franklin Templeton has expanded its suite of sustainable investment products with the launch of two new Article 8 UCITS ETFs: the Franklin S&P 500 Screened UCITS ETF and the Franklin World Screened UCITS ETF.
Financial Newswire: A snap poll of more than 160 institutional investors worldwide, conducted by London-based investment consultancy group Bfinance, found that most have not altered their strategic positions in response to the current trade war-driven economic maelstrom.
Portfolio Adviser: Schroders has developed guidelines for engaging with companies on climate adaptation, resilience and risk, in collaboration with Cornell University’s Global Labor Institute (GLI).
ESG News: While the NZBA maintains that 1.5°C remains its “guiding star,” the vote—backed by 90% of participating members—reflects growing unease with the pace of real-economy decarbonization.
ESG Today: Global alternative investment manager Apollo and community solar operator Summit Ridge Energy announced a new agreement, with Apollo-managed funds committing up to $400 million to form a new joint venture to jointly own and operate a portfolio of commercial solar assets across Illinois.
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