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Top 1000 Funds: The climate crisis is fundamentally a risk management failure Bob Litterman, co-founder of the Black Litterman Model, told the US Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis last week.
Citywire: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering making amendments to its rules on how funds are named amid challenges posed by the emergence of index strategies, ESG and managers’ use of derivatives.
Pensions & Investments: Brown University sold 90% of its investments in companies that extract fossil fuels and is liquidating the remainder, President Christina H. Paxson said in a letter to the campus community Wednesday.
Top 1000 Funds: Only 16 of the 74 largest public pension plans in the US ($4.5 trillion in AUM) mention ESG or responsible investing in their public documents. Only two out of 74 mention the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
Institutional Investor: Yale University chief investment officer David Swensen on Thursday reiterated his opposition to divesting the school’s $30.3 billion endowment of fossil fuels.
UT News: Climate change is being felt in a corner of the world different from where one might expect: Wall Street, where some of the biggest investors are starting to take action.
Institutional Investor: How do the largest charitable foundations rate on manager diversity? A new study from the Knight Foundation offers a glimpse inside the portfolios of some of the 50 biggest foundations in the U.S.
Bloomberg: Neuberger Berman Group LLC is walking the walk. The asset manager signed a loan this week that links its own costs to environmental, social and governance factors. That makes Neuberger Berman the first U.S. asset manager to ink a sustainability-linked loan.
Top 1000 Funds: When the CEO of the world’s largest asset manager speaks, the world tends to listen. So it was last week when BlackRock’s Larry Fink announced the company would put climate change centre-stage across its $7 trillion portfolio after what critics have called years of prevarication.
Citywire Selector: ESG mandates come in different shades of green with some excluding even the most popular asset classes. One high-impact exclusion zone is the $14.4 trillion US treasuries market. With European sovereigns largely offering negative yields, their higher-yielding US equivalents are often a preferred holding.
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