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    Nuveen Expects Rush of Social Bond Issues to Tackle Pandemic

    2020-04-28

    Bloomberg: Nuveen expects record issuance of bonds to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Pharmaceutical companies and personal protective equipment manufacturers will likely be among active borrowers.

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    ‘Tone Deaf’ Executive Pay Is Virus Focal Point for ESG Investors

    2020-04-28

    Bloomberg: With millions out of work or now reliant on the government for their pay checks, ESG investors are preparing to scrutinize executive pay like never before.

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    Will The Coronavirus Crisis Make Or Break Impact Investing?

    2020-04-27

    Campden FB: The ethos of impact investing for positive change seems tailor-made to tackle the devastating repercussions of the coronavirus crisis as states buckle and a recession looms, but cometh the hour, cometh the family impact investor?

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    Downturn Signals Opportunity for Climate-Aligned Investing

    2020-04-27

    GreenBiz: With global stock markets having plunged into bear market territory, the conventional wisdom is that the coronavirus storm sinks all boats. Or does it? While it’s true that equity funds experienced severe losses pretty much across the board, some fared better than others.

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    ESG Tool Tracks Supply Chain COVID Risk

    2020-04-24

    Top 1000 Funds: ESG data provider, Fair Supply Analytics, has produced technology that maps the impact of COVID-19 on global supply chains, and can be used by investors to measure their investment portfolios exposure to the sectors and countries most effected.

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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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