All United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) articles
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NewsESMA study finds SDG-labelled investment funds risk ‘impact washing’
Watchdog assessed 187 funds and found SDG claims did not correspond with contribution to goals
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NewsMismatch between Dutch funds’ SDG demands and investment opportunities
Bonds that finance projects that contribute to SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), Life below Water and Life on Land (SDGs 14 and 15) are especially hard to find
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NewsSkandia stows $100m in Dutch-backed sustainability blended-finance fund
Swedish pensions firm praises ‘innovative’ structure of SDG Loan Fund for easing flow of institutional money to developing countries
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NewsImpact Disclosure Taskforce created in bid to scale financing of UN SDGs
Guidance to be drafted with aim of helping corporates and sovereign entities provide disclosures helpful for accessing pools of capital
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NewsUK pensions minister urged to encourage schemes to invest in sustainability
LCP and Pensions for Purpose’s open letter urges pensions minister Laura Trott to encourage pension schemes to invest more in areas that drive forward sustainability goals
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AnalysisTrade finance – a sustainable asset class for institutional investors?
Trade financing, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in an analysis from September* “is critical for enabling international commerce and driving international development and poverty reduction”.
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NewsRobeco broadens access to sustainable investing data
Asset manager is now granting access to the public
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NewsFinancial performance linked with portfolio companies’ sustainability efforts, study finds
Researchers identified 900,000 ways of supporting the SDGs, but some drove performance more than others
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FeaturesImpact investment: How change theory can boost key messages
Simply aligning an investment with one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) does not always convince individuals about the impact of an investment. Communicating about change can help.
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NewsTNO scheme switches to Paris-Aligned Benchmark for developed equities
The fund is one of two seed investors in the new BlackRock Developed World Paris-Aligned Climate Index Fund
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NewsUK roundup: Small DC schemes fail to meet value expectations
Plus: Border to Coast sets up engagement programme; Risk sharing could provide an age-old solution, says Hymans Robertson; Impact Cubed launches SDG dataset
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Opinion PiecesCapital competition: where does it leave sustainability goals?
For pension funds and other similar large institutional pools of capital, there is significant pressure from politicians to invest in politically favoured domestic sectors – like renewables or high-growth sectors like venture capital.
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Green bonds require better coordination for real impact
Worth approximately $128.3trn (€117trn), the global bond market could add billions to the global effort to reach the United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs). Yet only a fraction of the market currently consists of green, social and sustainability (GSS) bonds, and of that very little is being issued in developing countries. In 2022, annual GSS bond issuances stood at under 10% of overall bonds and only 13% of them came from entities in developing countries, a number that dwindles to around 5% when excluding issuers from China.
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AnalysisAnalysis: German states realign €30bn pension fund assets to stricter ESG standards
Four German states have recently revised their sustainable investment strategies, sticking to stricter ESG rules
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NewsPFZW adopts 50% absolute CO2 reduction target
The change of heart follows criticism of the Dutch health care scheme’s initial relative reduction goal
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NewsComPlan to look at UN SDGs in private equity, debt investments
The scheme included physical and transitional climate risks in an ALM analysis for the first time last year
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NewsDACH roundup: WTW warns Swiss schemes to review asset managers, custodians after banking crisis
Plus: DWS starts coal phase-out; German pension funds invest in UN agriculture programme
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NewsPMT earmarks €10bn for impact investing by 2030
The goal means the Dutch metals industry scheme will have to find €8bn worth of impact investments in the next eight years
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NewsResearch: Financial sector’s approach to tackling climate change is fragmented
First benchmark developed by the WBA that focuses on financial institutions, including asset owners, banks, asset managers and insurers
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NewsTrend for greenwashing call out to spread to impact investing, says PGGM’s Op ‘t Veld
‘Some investors are currently rather liberal with their claims on impact, which I’m quite concerned about,’ says the responsible investment principal director
