4 October, 2019
Almost half of top investors have gone public with their ESG strategy
Investors are increasing their pressure on companies over environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, though their actual investment strategies may trail behind their publicly stated good inten...
30 September, 2019
Sasja Beslik: global finance industry ‘is the key to a sustainable future’
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25 September, 2019
PRI policy chief warns that capital markets ‘remain unsustainable’
“We haven’t yet seen the transition necessary,” says Will Martindale, head of policy and research at campaign group Pri...
26 October, 2018
BlackRock’s sustainable investment ambition
It was probably inevitable, but the fact that the world’s largest fund manager has thrown its weight behind sustainable investing really puts down a marker. [pull-left]“Sustainable investing wi...
3 October, 2018
Rise in firms taking responsibility for ESG
Responsible investing—the process of integrating environmental, social and governance principles into investment criteria—is growing in popularity. That’s the conclusion of a survey of instit...
14 June, 2018
ESG: is it truly being integrated with investment decisions?
Reading the transparency reports submitted by signatories to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), it becomes clear that asset managers take widely different approaches in the integratio...
12 June, 2018
LGIM names companies performing badly on climate change
Companies considered to be "laggards" in their efforts to address climate change have been named and shamed by Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM). The investment manager said it had d...
7 June, 2018
Why serious investors demand more than just climate disclosure
In 2014, when I first started engaging pension funds on the issue of climate change, a worrying number would respond that they could not take savers’ “ethical concerns” into account. Not only a ...
28 May, 2018
An asset to responsible investment: Michael Herskovich, BNP Paribas
While other asset managers may make bigger headlines, BNP Paribas Asset Management’s record on integrating social and environmental factors into their decision-making makes others look like latecome...
20 April, 2018
