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Yahoo Finance: The environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) movement has forced big finance to recalibrate priorities around impact investing in the past few years. Hedge funds, one of the last to the ESG party, have recently also started incorporating ESG and impact considerations into their decision-making process for new ventures.
Financial Post: Today’s private equity shops — including the world’s largest alternative asset manager, Blackstone Group Inc. — are pouring capital into fast-growing sectors such as solar, carbon capture, and battery storage.
Institutional Asset Manager: Forty one leading asset managers, representing USD6.8 trillion in assets, are joining the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative. Among other steps, this will see the investors work with clients to reach net zero emissions alignment across their portfolios by 2050 or sooner and set interim 2030 emissions reduction targets.
The Wealth Advisor: Climate change risk is an increasingly significant driver in investment models and has been cited by almost 90 percent of institutional investors as the most significant ESG (environmental, social, governance) factor influencing their decisions to invest in a company, according to a Deloitte report.
BNN Bloomberg: A new trend is emerging in the world of ESG as companies turn their attention to cleaning up old debt. They’re either buying back conventional notes, which could finance just about anything, or transforming old securities to green.
Institutional Investor: One year after 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests sparked reflection on diversity in the investment industry, research published by the Institutional Leadership Network shows that major players have implemented a wide range of equity and inclusion initiatives. But the organizations say there is still a long way to go.
Cision: Hines, the international real estate firm, has unveiled an ambitious new ESG strategy to elevate its commitments to environmental, social and governance issues, with a particular focus on the climate emergency, by accelerating its efforts to lead the industry in decarbonization of the built environment.
BNN Bloomberg: Worldwide, there are more than 600 exchange-traded funds that claim to follow the principles of environmental, social and governance investing—in one way or another. But how many of them really do?
Institutional Asset Manager: A new study from the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) and BMO Global Asset Management finds that, as ESG has risen to the top of pension trustees’ agendas, most trustees are relying on investment consultants for their schemes’ adherence to sustainability goals.
BBC: "Mediocre" male managers are blocking women's development in the finance world because they are better at office politics, new research suggests. Women also said many managers "faked empathy" on diversity, and more direct bosses were easier to work with.
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