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    New York State Pension CIO Opposes Fossil Fuels Divestment Bill

    2019-04-30

    Institutional Investor: New York State Common Retirement Fund’s interim chief investment officer is against the state’s proposed bill that would require it to divest from fossil fuels.

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    Responsible Investing Faces Some Challenges Says Desjardins

    2019-04-26

    Wealth Professional: An increased focus on ESG issues is clear and Canadian investors are showing greater interest in responsible investing; but there are challenges according to Desjardins.

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    NY State Common’s Climate Plan

    2019-04-19

    Top 1000 Funds: What would be the implications of a large number of global asset owners attempting to become 100% sustainable by 2030?

    This is an important question and opportunity emerging out of the work we did over the past year as members of the New York State Common Decarbonization Advisory Panel whose recommendations were just released this week in a 38-page report.

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    Viewpoint: Boston Must Divest from Prisons, Reinvest in its Values

    2019-04-07

    Boston Business Journal: Despite struggling with deep-seated racial tensions locally, in 1984 Boston passed legislation prohibiting the city’s investment in companies doing business with South Africa’s apartheid state. More than three decades later, social-justice advocates are once again hoping to use divestment to address racial injustice, this time occurring right here in the U.S.

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    Goldman Says Some Women in Gender Bias Class Must Arbitrate

    2019-04-15

    Big Law Business: Goldman Sachs asked a federal judge to force more than 1,000 women from a gender discrimination class action to arbitrate their claims, but attorneys for the women say they shouldn’t be kept out of court.

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    S&P Dow Jones Indices to Launch Sustainable-Investment Index

    2019-04-08

    The Wall Street JournalS&P Dow Jones Indices, a unit of S&P Global Inc., is launching an environmental, social and governance version of its S&P 500 index to meet increasing investor demand for sustainable-investment vehicles based on U.S. equities, the company said.

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    Fitting ESG into Portfolios

    2019-03-20

    Advisor's Edge: Investing in lumber relates to multiple SDGs, including climate action, infrastructure, and sustainable consumption and production, she said in a Feb. 21 interview.

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    Neuberger Berman Announces Firm-Wide Climate-Related Corporate Strategy and Risk Analysis Capability

    2019-03-18

    Morning Star: Neuberger Berman, a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager, announced that it had completed the implementation of the main recommendations of the Financial Stability Board's Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD).

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    Goldman Sachs to Add Hundreds of Women to the Trading Floor

    2019-03-11

    Financial News: Goldman Sachs is offering hundreds of new female recruits a one-year trial on its trading floors in an attempt to shake up its male-dominated workforce.

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    Why Diversity is Important at CalSTRS

    2019-03-08

    Top 1000 Funds: The $214 billion fund for California teachers has been a leader on D&I in the investment industry, demonstrated through gender parity in its investment team and the publishing of an annual report on diversity for the past 10 years.

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