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Business Wire: Blackstone announced today that funds managed by Blackstone Energy Partners (“Blackstone”) have committed $400 million to lead a strategic investment in Xpansiv Limited (“Xpansiv”), the premier market-infrastructure platform for global carbon and environmental commodities.
Institutional Investor: Thirty-four of the wealthiest colleges and universities in the U.S. declined to participate in a Knight Foundation study looking at the diversity of the asset management firms managing their endowments.
Funds Europe: The Riverside Company has appointed Dörte Höppner as its first chief sustainability officer. In the newly created role, Höppner will be tasked with overseeing the private investment firm’s global ESG initiatives.
BNN Bloomberg: BlackRock Inc. is pushing back on key parts of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s bid to get publicly traded companies to track and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions.
U.S. News: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into Goldman Sachs Group Inc's asset-management division over its funds that look to invest based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards, the Wall Street Journal reported.
BNN Bloomberg: The majority of US and Canadian-based venture capital investors are planning to back funds with exposure to female founders, a sign that male-dominated capital allocation might start to shift.
BNN Bloomberg: BlackRock Inc., facing political scrutiny over its stance on environmental, social and governance investing and its outsize influence in business, is on a mission to re-introduce itself to Washington.
BNN Bloomberg: The poor quality of sustainability-related data is making it harder for market experts in Canada to establish the real effect of investments labeled as green, according to a survey by the Institute for Sustainable Finance.
BNN Bloomberg: After more than three years of inflows, investors are now pulling cash out of US equity exchange-traded funds with higher environmental, social and governance standards. May saw $2 billion of outflows from ESG equity funds, according to data from Bloomberg Intelligence -- the biggest monthly cash pullback ever.
Financial Post: Regulators in Canada and the United States are pushing ESG funds to disclose more information to weed out “greenwashing” and other misleading practices, but a lack of standardized terms and metrics mean those buying the funds must still be wary, investor advocates say.
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