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Bloomberg: The drive toward sustainable investing has shifted in response to the coronavirus, which has spread to 170 countries. ESG investors haven’t quit caring about limiting fossil fuels, cultivating diverse workforces and reducing the use of plastics, and they’ve always taken an interest in worker welfare.
Financial Post: For European governments battling to brace economies pummelled by the coronavirus, there might be no better time to go green. Normally thrifty countries, such as Germany, accept they will have to spend heavily to weather the economic shock of the coronavirus. Many also face the challenge of plowing billions of euros into climate schemes to keep carbon reduction pledges.
Markets Media: Total assets invested in environmental, social, and governance exchange-trade funds listed globally reached a record at the end of last month.
Financial Times: Banks, insurers and asset managers face a growing threat from climate change, as the physical effects of global warming and the transition to a low-carbon economy pose unprecedented risks to the status quo. [Full article available to Financial Times subscribers.]
Opalesque: More than one-third of global alternatives investors have refrained from investing in a fund because it had an inadequate ESG policy; 26% said this occurs "sometimes" and 9% said it happens "frequently."
BNN Bloomberg: Being a capitalist with a conscience sometimes means putting people over profits, both for their benefit and that of the company in the long run. The Covid-19 pandemic has made this plain.
Yahoo! Finance: Corporate proxy season is already underway, with companies filing annual statements ahead of thousands of planned general meetings stretching from April to July. Most firms are required by law to hold gatherings to approve corporate policies.
MarketWatch: Fund giant BlackRock has released its stewardship playbook, a rough plan that furthers the industry-rattling pledge for sustainability from its leader Larry Fink earlier this year.
Bloomberg: When shares of Brazil’s Vale SA suddenly crashed last year after a deadly dam collapse, Nick Price did what any fund manager might have done for a stock he already owned: He purchased more.
GreenBiz: As investors prepare for the 2020 proxy voting season and try to assess the prospects for climate-related shareholder proposals (and decide how to vote), looking at data from last year’s proxy votes by asset managers can help.
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