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    Central Bank Portfolios Worth $3.8 Trillion Look to Go Green

    2021-05-17

    BNN Bloomberg: Central banks are increasingly interested in environmentally sound and socially responsible investment, with 43% of respondents to the HSBC Reserve Management Trends survey for 2021 saying they’d bought green bonds.

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    Solving VC’s ESG Puzzle

    2021-05-13

    World Positive: This is a common question that comes our way — from venture firms, limited partners, academics, and the media — and the answer is, well, not so obvious despite a craving for simplicity.

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    HSBC Has Stakes in Firms That Plan More Than 70 New Coal Plants

    2021-05-12

    The Guardian: A loophole in HSBC’s pledge to phase out financing for coal by 2040 will allow the bank to support companies with plans to build more than 70 new coal plants, which could cause an estimated 18,700 deaths from air pollution a year, according to a report.

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    Mental Wellbeing "Overlooked" by Asset Management Firms, Finds Report

    2021-05-11

    Institutional Asset Manager: Asset management firms have been accused of overlooking the wellbeing of their employees as a recent survey from Howden reveals that most firms have no strategy in place for addressing issues including mental health and work/life balance.

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    Wealth Firms Must Show ESG Commitment to Grow, Says JD Power

    2021-05-07

    Wealth Professional: Full-service wealth management firms that want to maintain their business today and ensure its growth tomorrow must be unequivocal about their commitment to ESG investing, according to a new survey from J.D. Power.

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    The Pandemic Caused a ‘Major Step Back’ for Women in Financial Services

    2021-05-06

    Institutional Investor: For women in the financial services industry, the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated the challenges they face in their jobs, resulting in a significant exodus from the field. 

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    CarVal Investors Lines Up $490 Million for Clean-Energy Fund

    2021-05-05

    Yahoo News: CarVal Investors, a global alternative investment manager, lined up $490 million in commitments for a clean energy fund as investors flock to the fast-growing renewables space.

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    Green Bonds Are Most Popular Sustainable Fixed Income Investment Among Institutional Investors, Says NN IP

    2021-05-05

    Institutional Asset Manager: Sustainability as an investment theme looks set to be a permanent feature of the asset management landscape. One sustainable asset class that is gaining increasing prominence is ‘green bonds’, or bonds in which the proceeds must be spent on projects that support the environment. But how keen are investors to “greenify” their portfolios?

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    No Evidence That ESG Strategies Outperform, Says Scientific Beta Research

    2021-05-04

    Institutional Asset Manager: In a new research paper, "Honey, I Shrunk the ESG Alpha": Risk-Adjusting ESG Portfolio Returns, Scientific Beta researchers examine equity strategies that exploit information in ESG ratings, following several papers that suggest that these strategies lead to outperformance.

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    Hedge Funds Off the Pace on ESG Integration, New bfinance Investor Poll Finds

    2021-04-28

    Hedge Week: Hedge funds are falling behind other sectors such as private equity and real estate when it comes to integrating ESG factors into their portfolios.

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