All exclusion articles
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NewsESMA: Fossil fuel holding changes suggest fund naming guidelines effective
Fund managers are more likely to rebrand their funds when faced with higher divestment needs to comply with the rules, supervisor finds
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NewsAP7 tightens climate exclusions, drops Chevron, Petrobras
Swedish pensions giant accelerates pace of climate blacklistings, ruling out 35 companies in latest announcement
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NewsAvon pension fund to stay in defence, share member views with new pool
Pension fund decided to review investment in aerospace and defence sector following petitions for divestment from companies supplying Israel
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NewsPension funds take climate targets more seriously than other financial institutions
Analysis of 600 funds names those adopting good practice and areas where improvements are needed
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NewsPensionsEurope: Planned SFDR categorisation system is ‘ill-suited to pension funds’
Industry association argues that a one-size-fits-all regime will put pension funds at a disadvantage
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NewsHundreds of ESG funds renamed as ESMA guidelines kick in
Campaigners say €22bn of fossil fuel investments must have been ditched as part of shake-up
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NewsDutch funds play hard to get on defence investments
Pension funds in the Netherlands await for government to take first step by providing investment opportunities
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NewsEthos excludes Tesla shares from own funds raising governance issues
‘Musk is now part of an administration that wants to somehow fight Tesla’s own product, it is a contradiction,’ Ethos CEO Vincent Kaufmann says
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NewsSweden’s AP7 divests €100m of oil firms for lacking climate plans
National pension fund excludes EOG Resources and MEG Energy, but brings Hitachi Zosen and SGL Carbon back into investment universe
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NewsNorwegian SWF dumps €705m General Dynamics stock in new blacklisting
NBIM announces €1bn of exclusions from its investment universe, in latest batch of companies falling foul of the GPFG’s ethical guidelines
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AnalysisIPE Netherlands Briefing: Dutch insurers eye more buyouts
Plus: PMT’s ESG exclusion framework and PGGM’s DEI pledge
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InterviewsPMT refines ESG exclusion method
The Dutch metals industry scheme will also take into consideration what companies do to fight climate change and how they treat workers
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NewsNorwegian oil fund drops $400m of stocks on war-linked grounds
NBIM follows advice from its Council on Ethics, and banishes L3Harris, Adani unit and Weichai Power, divesting nearly $400m
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NewsPME sells 112 companies for ESG reasons
The €54.6bn pension fund for the Dutch technology industry sold over €800m in shares as it adopted a new ESG screening policy
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NewsBorder to Coast strengthens responsible investment policy
Voting is ‘essential’ to managing climate risk and an important means of influencing company targets and policies, says RI head
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NewsKENFO excludes infrastructure assets in oil and gas sector
The fund will not provide new financing for these assets unless they comply with net zero targets set by NZAOA
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NewsNordic pension funds split over owning Saudi Aramco
AP7 said it is in dialogue with KLP about exclusion of the world’s biggest oil company
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NewsKLP ditches Saudi Aramco and 11 other companies over climate and human rights
The exclusions are mainly related to the building and construction, property, and telecommunications sectors
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NewsDutch pension fund PMT sells most fossil fuel holdings
Metals industry scheme remains invested in nine oil and gas companies with ‘sufficiently convincing plans’ for the energy transition, including Shell
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NewsGerman investors face ESG exclusion/engagement dilemma
The general public might not fully grasp what sustainable investing entails from an investor’s perspective, says KENFO
