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    MetLife Investment Management to Buy Affirmative Investment Management for Undisclosed Terms

    2022-08-29

    Nasdaq: MetLife Investment Management or MIM, the institutional asset management business of MetLife, Inc. (MET), announced Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Affirmative Investment Management or AIM, a specialist global ESG impact fixed income investment manager with deep capabilities in impact investing, verification, reporting and engagement.

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    From Meta to Twitter, What Everyone Gets Wrong About ESG — And Why It Matters

    2022-08-24

    Institutional Investor: Frances Haugen chose to join Facebook after a family member became radicalized online. She wanted to help make the social media platform less toxic. As she would later testify before Congress, however, she found that she had joined a company that persistently put profit before the broader social good.

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    US Fund Manager Under Fire Over Sponsorship of Climate Sceptics

    2022-08

    360: Federated Hermes, a champion of eco-friendly investment strategies, is coming under increasing pressure to explain its sponsorship of a coalition of senior U.S. officials opposed to climate change.

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    abrdn Launches Sustainability Institute, Americas & Appoints Fionna Ross to Lead

    2022-08-16

    abrdn: Leading global asset manager abrdn is pleased to announce the launch of the abrdn Sustainability Institute, Americas and the appointment of Fionna Ross as Sustainability Investment Specialist & Head of the Sustainability Institute, Americas.

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    VCs Say Climate Bill Will Help ‘Prime the Pump’ for Startup Growth

    2022-08-12

    BNN Bloomberg: Investors at G2 Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley firm that backs climate technology, spent this week poring over the Inflation Reduction Act, the US Senate’s landmark climate bill that is expected to be up for a vote Friday in the House of Representatives. It was an exercise in cautious optimism. 

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    Vistria, with $8 Billion in Assets, Weighs Minority Stake Sale

    2022-08-11

    Yahoo News: Vistria Group, an investment firm that aims to achieve both positive social change and investor returns, is exploring the sale of a stake, people with knowledge of the matter said.

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    Angelo Gordon Joins Novata General Partner Advisory Committee to Advance ESG in Private Markets

    2022-08-11

    Business Wire: Angelo Gordon, a $50 billion alternative investment firm focused on credit and real estate investing, has joined Novata’s General Partner (GP) Advisory Committee. Novata, a public benefit corporation backed by the Ford Foundation, Hamilton Lane, S&P Global and Omidyar Network, is the leading ESG data management platform built for the private markets. 

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    Republicans Are Focusing on a New Economic Threat: ESG Scores

    2022-08-10

    Yahoo Finance: To Blake Masters, the newly minted Republican Senate nominee in Arizona, ESG scores are an existential threat to the US economy along with inflation -- an issue worth campaigning on as ardently as securing the border, preventing voter fraud and challenging Big Tech.

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    What’s Wrong with ESG Ratings?

    2022-08-08

    JDSupra: About a year ago, the Brookings Institution held a panel discussion regarding the role that the SEC should play in ESG investing and invited SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce to speak at the panel. 

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    Texas Joins Republican AGs Slamming Larry Fink on ESG Investment

    2022-08-08

    BNN Bloomberg: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday that he joined a group of Republican state officials accusing BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Office Larry Fink of relying on sustainable investments instead of shareholders’ profits. 

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