Susanna Rust
Susanna is deputy news editor at IPE.
At IPE she covers responsible investment and EU regulation, but also enjoys reporting on developments in and around the UK pensions industry.
Having been a financial journalist since 2008, Susanna started her career as a corporate governance/corporate social responsibility analyst at proxy advisory firm PIRC.
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- +44 (0)20 3465 9322
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- susanna.rust@ipe.com
News‘Milestone’ as investor-led project delivers first country climate assessments
ASCOR framework assesses countries in 13 topic areas for benefit of sovereign bond investors
NewsNet zero asset owners get direction on policy advocacy, transition plans
‘Impossible’ for asset owners to meet net zero goals without an enabling policy environment
NewsCOP28: ‘Proof of concept’ launched for public net zero data portal
Also at COP28 a group focused on aligning global policy with net zero emission goals has been launched
NewsIPE Conference: ‘Investors need to ensure companies play by the rules set by societies’
Investors should support the minimum tax rate deal struck in 2021, for example, said the founding chair of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund
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
NewsSBTi seeks financial institutions to pilot updated near-term criteria
Interest needs to be submitted by 14 December
NewsUncertainty must ‘take centre stage’ in climate scenario advice to trustees
Failure to communicate uncertainty in damage estimates ‘the most glaring flaw in the advice’
NewsERAFP names 11 winners in multi-billion equities hiring spree
Amundi and BlackRock were among 11 winners in a European and Japanese equities hiring process by the French civil service pension scheme
NewsMining 2030 Commission gets supports from 82 investors as members named
Among the 82 investors that are backing the initiative are APG in the Netherlands, USS in the UK, US fund CalSTRS and Canadian pension fund CDPQ
NewsNew partnership formed to create bespoke ‘next generation’ ESG indices
MerQube and Impact Cubed are responding to a need for customisation and factual accuracy
NewsEIOPA chair pushes for action on pension dashboard, auto-enrolment, PEPP
Petra Hielkema reveals frustration that European Commission has not taken further action on a pensions dashboard
NewsUK asset owner group publishes manager voting (mis)alignment review
Discussions have taken place between UK asset owners and asset managers about next steps
NewsClimate finance groups bid to cut through transition finance framework confusion
Project finds grounds for investors to ‘take comfort’
NewsCentral bankers group ‘enriches’ long-term climate scenarios
NGFS is also planning to develop short-term scenarios
NewsEFRAG and CDP join forces to boost uptake of European sustainability reporting standards
Collaboration aims to accelerate the implementation of ESRS and provide data to the market from next year
NewsWiltshire pension fund to stay ‘agile’ on decarbonisation target-setting
£3.1bn local government pension scheme is currently behind target with its carbon footprint down 23.3% since 31 December 2019
NewsHarmonised ESG terminology put forward to support anti-greenwashing efforts
Industry bodies publish guidance for using key terms in practice
Special ReportESG Guide 2023: The future of sustainable finance
With or without the backlash against ESG in the US, big questions have been looming over the sustainable finance industry – like ‘is sustainable finance working?’.
Special ReportPlenty left for EU sustainable finance policy to tackle
European policymakers have gone full throttle on sustainable finance over the past five years. Do they have the wherewithal to finish the job?
Special ReportIs there a role for ethics in ESG investing?
What if investors acknowledged that, sometimes, some things are just the right thing to do?
