BNN Bloomberg: Quant powerhouse AQR Capital Management LLC is planning a new ESG-focused mutual fund that will not only favor the best-behaved companies, but also punish the worst by betting against them.
U.S. News: Top asset manager BlackRock Inc on Tuesday said it wants U.S. companies to aim for a board that is 30% diverse and, for the first time, contains at least one member from an under-represented group.
BNN Bloomberg: If the financial-services industry was a country, it would rank as the world’s fifth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
BNN Bloomberg: The climate finance industry continued to grow rapidly this year. Having weathered Covid-19 and taken center stage at COP26, the trend seems unlikely to slow in 2022.
Yahoo Finance: Investors face an historic opportunity to put their money into renewable energy assets given the global consensus that now exists around the urgent need for decarbonization, according to Brookfield Asset Management Inc.
Yahoo Finance: California’s climate-conscious policies aren’t matched by the investment choices of its largest public pension funds, according to a report from two environmental groups.
Institutional Investor: Environmental, social, and governance investing poses little cost to investors, according to a study from researchers at Arizona State University.
Cision: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation released a new study today measuring diversity in the U.S.-based financial industry revealing that only 1.4 percent of assets are entrusted by investors to asset management firms owned by women and/or people of color, despite diverse-owned firms' investment performance matching those of their less-diverse peers.
Institutional Asset Manager: Joyce will be responsible for driving the ESG strategic direction for the US, collaborating closely with senior leadership, global ESG teams, investment management, marketing, and distribution teams across the firm globally, as well as with external industry partners, and reports jointly to Lisa Jones, President and CEO of Amundi US, and Head of the Americas, and Elodie Laugel, Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Amundi based in Paris.
Yahoo Finance: As the dust settles on the finance industry’s most ambitious climate coalition yet, some of the biggest names on Wall Street have remained conspicuously absent.
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