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    Threat From Climate Change To Financial Stability Bigger Than Covid-19

    2020-06-07

    Financial Times: Climate change poses a bigger threat to financial stability than the coronavirus pandemic and the rules on bank lending to fossil fuel groups must be tightened to address it, a new report has warned. [Full article available to Financial Times subscribers]

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    Investors With $12 Trillion Call for Green EU Recovery Plan

    2020-06-05

    Bloomberg: Global investors managing 11 trillion euros ($12 trillion) are demanding a rapid green recovery in Europe to avoid worsening financial, health and social problems.

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    A Goldman Executive Has Advice for His White Colleagues

    2020-06-04

    Bloomberg: To everyone who's asked me some variant of "how's it going?" over the past month, I've probably lied. Or lacked the words to articulate it fully, but I’m giving it a shot.

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    The Other Fossils in the Boardroom

    2020-06-03

    Bloomberg: The world’s largest banks have issued billions in loans to sustainable businesses and taken some steps to restrict funding for some of world’s worst polluters. But the greening of global finance hasn’t reached the boardroom yet.

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    ESG Isn’t Enough for Alpha

    2020-06-02

    Institutional Investor: When investors use environmental, social, and governance factors to choose companies to invest in, they don’t outperform, research shows. But when ESG factors are combined with high employee satisfaction, shareholders reap the rewards.

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    Aftermath of Coronavirus Seen to Radically Change ESG Focus

    2020-06-01

    Pensions & Investments: While climate change dominated many annual shareholder meetings so far this year, issues raised by the coronavirus pandemic, such as the treatment of workers and corporate boards' responses to the crisis, are expected to feature prominently in 2021.

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    Women-led Hedge Funds Beat Male Rivals in Coronavirus Crisis

    2020-05-31

    Financial Times: A small cluster of hedge funds managed by women has outperformed those run by men through the coronavirus crisis, new data show, highlighting the industry’s long-running lack of progress in fixing its gender imbalance.

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    Insurance-Linked Securities Key to Investing in Environmental Risk

    2020-06-01

    The Asset: While there have always been investment opportunities in environmental risks such as typhoons, earthquakes, and floods, these have traditionally been long-term plays for institutional investors like insurance and reinsurance companies with extended horizons and plenty of cash.

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    Investor Group Issues Guidance on Tackling Physical Climate Risks

    2020-05-28

    International Investment: In the same week as the boss of one of the UK's top energy companies warned the economic impact from climate change could prove to be worse than that from coronavirus, a group of top investors has set out new guidance for how investment firms can manage escalating climate risks.

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    ‘I Will Get Very Serious About ESG — But Not Yet,’ Allocators Claim

    2020-05-27

    Institutional Investor: Asset managers that ignore environmental, social, and governance factors may find themselves losing out on big mandates.

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