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Challenging market weakens ESG-focused fund flows

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... redemptions. A possible factor continuing to weigh on investor demand is the political backlash against sustainable investing in the US". Europe currently makes up 84% of global sustainable fund assets.

Does ESG have a fiduciary problem?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... was being shunned by some because it was being used as too general a term, Michael Viehs global head of sustainable investing at Partners Capital argued. "For me, there is no such thing as ESG investing," he said. "ESG is not the right way to do it... ...

Snapshot: The rapid evolution of sustainable investing in Asia

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... has doubled since 2016, matching the output of European regulators," Fidelity's global stewardship and sustainable investing head Jenn-Hui Tan said. "Much of this is driven by entity-level reporting of products and services, activity-level reporting ...

JP Morgan platform to tackle sustainable data

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
JP Morgan Securities Services hopes to solve the data problem for sustainable investing with the launch of its Sustainable Investment Data Solutions for institutional investors. The sustainable investment data solution is available through cloud-native ...

Family offices see ESG as part of fiduciary duty: Ocorian

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... heavy influence from younger generations bringing in new ideas and values which increasingly align with sustainable investing principles." Ocorian commissioned independent research company PureProfile to interview 134 family office investment managers ...

Super fund survey finds strong demand for sustainable super

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... ART head of sustainable investment Nicole Bradford said the data indicates that a focus on ESG factors and sustainable investing in general is now increasingly important for members of super funds. The ART YouGov survey of over 2000 Australians found ...

Robeco defines key business sustainability impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... important element of the EU's Sustainable Finance Action Plan and is an important part of our approach to sustainable investing," Robeco said. "Double materiality considers a company's operations from two perspectives: 1. Financial materiality: how society ...

Podcast: Is stewardship a sword or a shield for investors - Pablo Berrutti

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
Stewart Investors Senior Investment Specialist Pablo Berrutti joins the podast to talk about sustainable investing, what is stewardship and how his passion for sustainable investing led him to found Altiorem, a not-for-profit library and resource centre ...

Are investors walking the walk when it comes to voting on biodiversity?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... five global asset managers - BlackRock, Vanguard and SSGA - uncovered that despite public commitments to sustainable investing, their sustainability funds consistently opposed biodiversity proposals 80-100% of the time Notably, none of these asset managers ...

American Century Investments on impact investing and best in progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2023  |  NEWS
Head of ESG and sustainable investing at American Century Investments, Sarah Bratton Hughes, says the market is moving away from best in class, and towards best in progress, at a time when emissions are at an all-time high. The US-based ESG leader says ...