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    At a Crossroads: Coronavirus Upheaval Threatens Progress on Gender Diversity in Investment Industry

    2020-10-08

    Institutional Asset Manager: The asset management industry has reached a critical period for nurturing gender diversity, industry experts have advised, as investment firms choose how they will adapt to new challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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    ESG Assessments Rising in Asset Management

    2020-10-08

    Funds Europe: Asset managers see governance as their central ESG factor - but environment and social issues are gaining importance, research shows.

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    RMA Survey Finds ESG Investing and Securities Lending Can Coexist

    2020-10-08

    News Wire: A new survey of leading institutional investors released today by The Risk Management Association (RMA) revealed that 95% of respondents believe that securities lending activities can coexist with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles.

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    ESG Market Record Is Causing Bubble Anxiety

    2020-10-06

    Bloomberg: The investing world of environmental, social and governance just broke through another barrier, and the growth is starting to raise questions (and even concern) about how much bigger it can get. [Full article available to Bloomberg subscribers.]

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    Avoiding ‘Sin Stocks’ Is No Longer Enough for ESG ETFs

    2020-10-01 

    Financial Times: Traditional socially responsible exchange traded funds that rely on simply excluding “sin stocks” and other securities linked to sectors such as coal mining or tobacco look set to become a thing of the past, data shows. [Full article available to Financial Times subscribers.] 

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    Women Are Still Being Held Back in Fund Management

    2020-09-30 

    International Investment: Outdated ideas about gender roles are still are still holding women back in the fund management industry, according to GAM Investments.

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    Hedge Fund in Long Haul to Tackle Lack of Black Money Managers

    2020-09-28 

    Reuters: When the death of George Floyd forced companies to reflect on why there were so few Black people in their senior ranks, top banks and private equity firms pledged to do better. But one corner of the finance world - the hedge fund industry - made fewer public statements. 

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    Corporate Boards Improving on ESG, Less on Diversity

    2020-09-28 

    Pensions & Investments: Corporate boards are improving the ways they deal with crisis management and ESG issues but less so on diversity, according to PwC's Annual Corporate Directors Survey released Monday. [Full article available to Pensions & Investments subscribers.] 

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    Socially Responsible Investing Goes Mainstream As Pandemic Continues, Says Survey

    2020-09-23

    Opalesque: About two-thirds of investors agree that the global pandemic has led them to place a higher priority on social factors when analyzing investment risk, according to a survey of attitudes toward ESG investing by Federated Hermes.

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    Asset Managers Progress Biodiversity Impact Measurement Plan

    2020-09-22

    IPE: AXA Investment Managers, BNP Paribas Asset Management, Sycomore Asset Management and Mirova have selected the research provider that will develop a tool to allow them to measure the impact of their investments on biodiversity. [Full article available to subscribers.]

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