
The Wall Street Journal: Last year, 11 mutual funds in the U.S. rebranded themselves or changed their strategy to emphasize interest in environmental, social and governance, or ESG, on the part of the companies that they held.
Institutional Investor: The hedge fund that’s vacuumed up almost 100 local newspapers hit its Southern California papers with another round of layoffs Thursday, cutting jobs that the state deems “essential” in fighting the pandemic.
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.
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