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    Long-Term Disclosure Post COVID-19

    2020-04-22

    Top 1000 Funds: Once the core part of the COVID-19 crisis is behind us, leading market participants will continue to engage with the long-term imperative. Major asset owners have asserted their long-term view and the stakeholder approach seems likely to accelerate given the shape and impact of this current crisis.

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    Meeting The Social Infrastructure Need

    2020-04-20

    Top 1000 Funds: The current coronavirus crisis has exposed many weaknesses, one of them being the chronic under-investment in social infrastructure in most countries – developed and emerging. In fact, after a long period of neglect and decay, investment needs and investment gaps were already huge before this crisis, not only for health and disaster management but across the board.

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    Blackrock Doubles Down On Climate Pressure In The Midst Of Global Crisis

    2020-04-18

    Forbes: The COVID-19 pandemic is, first and foremost, a human tragedy and global health crisis, affecting millions of people around the globe. As much of the world reels from the crippling effects of this crisis, so does the global economy.

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    HSBC Sees Social Debt Sales Nearly Doubling in Response to Virus

    2020-04-16

    Bloomberg: Social bond issuance is poised to almost double last year’s total as more borrowers raise debt to respond to the humanitarian crisis presented by Covid-19, according to one of the top underwriters of the securities.

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    Quants Join Chase for ESG Trillions. No One Knows If It’ll Work

    2020-04-15

    Bloomberg: When Gideon Smith and his AXA Rosenberg colleagues set up their quant fund in 2013, they called it “Sustainable Equities” since the original goal was to deliver sustainable earnings.

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    Investors And Asset Managers Are Chasing a New Shade of Green

    2020-04-14

    Strategy + Business: The year 2019 was one of cataclysmic fire and rain. Wildfires swept across California, the Amazon, and Australia, and storms and floods deluged parts of six continents — a string of natural disasters that scientists say were caused by the changing climate. And in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has coursed through the world.

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    Global Finance Can’t Afford to Ignore Externalities Any Longer

    2020-04-08

    Bloomberg: We are all grappling with coronavirus right now— both the immediate reality and what it means for the future. Governments are assuming a much bigger role in the economies of developed countries, propping up households and businesses that would otherwise be ruined by the desperate measures being taken to stop the spread of disease.

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    Covid-19 May Change Corporate Sustainability as We Know It

    2020-04-08

    Bloomberg: Corporate social responsibility, or CSR, has become a shorthand for what companies do to integrate environmental, social and governance issues into their businesses. Until now it’s been a mashup of philanthropy, employee engagement, renewable energy programs and investor relations.

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    The Coronavirus Crisis Poses a Challenge to Climate Change Efforts

    2020-04-06

    Financial News London: Climate-change campaigners are putting on a brave face. They say the coronavirus crisis will focus attention on this even bigger threat to global public health, give governments more levers to force companies to take the issue seriously, and change consumers’ behaviour in a way that will lead to permanent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

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    Putting The Me in ESG

    2020-04-10

    Politico: Sustainability discussions are taking on a new shape as the world heads deeper into the Covid-19 pandemic. They’re turning away from the E in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investments, and toward the S and G.

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