More ESG news – Page 243
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Mandate roundup: Tyne & Wear, Aberdeen, Barking & Dagenham, bFinance, Environment Agency
UK – Tyne & Wear pension fund sticks with Aberdeen for property investments.
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NewsBrussels pulls back from mandatory gender quotas
EUROPE – Proposes 'general rules' to help companies increase female non-executive directors to 40%.
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NewsPension funds lose first round of legal battle with Henderson
UK – High Court judge deals blow to group of 22 pension funds suing asset manager over Secondary Fund II.
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NewsUptake of impact investing 'extremely modest' in UK
UK – Only 20% of pension funds consider strategy within their remit, report shows.
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NewsFormer Dutch prime minister Lubbers to speak at IPE Awards
IPE – Champion of sustainability to give keynote address at IPE Awards Seminar in Copenhagen.
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NewsLitigation specialist weighing up lawsuit against ABN Amro
GLOBAL – IMF Australia speaking with European pension funds on potential class-action over CPDOs.
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NewsDutch schemes increasing nuclear weapon investments, group claims
NETHERLANDS – Campaign against Weapons Trade points finger at several larger Dutch pension funds.
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NewsESG roundup: CSRR-QS, ARISTA, AAAiC, Cedrus AM
GLOBAL – Responsible investment standard CSRR-QS relaunched globally as ARISTA.
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NewsESG roundup: Impax on shale gas, Schroders on natural gas
GLOBAL – Advance of shale gas has created four key investment opportunities, Impax says.
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NewsBrussels identifies top priorities for long-term investing green paper
EUROPE – European Commission aiming to publish paper as early as December.
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NewsDutch investors call for cluster munitions 'exclusion' list
NETHERLANDS – Investment ban scheduled to go into effect from 1 January 2013.
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Pension fund for French civil servants awards bond mandates
FRANCE – Covered-bond mandates come as part of ERAFP’s broader ESG strategy.
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NewsESG roundup: Novethic, Natixis AM, University of Cambridge
EUROPE – Banks, insurance companies diverge wildly on corporate responsibility reporting.
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NewsESG roundup: Women board quotas, Newsweek Green Rankings
GLOBAL – European Commission puts off decision on women quotas for corporate board positions.
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News300 Club: Asset managers must evolve beyond 'short-term salesmanship'
EUROPE – Kempen CIO says industry failing in expertise, discipline and reliability.
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NewsESG roundup: Future Fund, AODP, Green Investment Bank
GLOBAL – Australia's largest pension fund too 'under-resourced' to consider climate change.
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NewsESG roundup: Human rights, Vigeo, EIRIS
GLOBAL – One multinational company in five faces at least one human-rights violation allegation.
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NewsESG roundup: UKSIF, Stewardship Code, YouGov
UK – Regulator should 'shine light' on responsible investing in auto-enrolment, UKSIF says.
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NewsJenkins rallies investment industry in 'titanic tussle' over regulation
UK – Former F&C Asset Management chairman says industry must speak out in favour of banking reform.
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NewsPensionDanmark commits €800m to infrastructure fund
DENMARK – Danish scheme's total allocation to asset class climbs to 10% of assets.
