Sustainability – Page 38
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NewsBVI recommends new EU vehicle for ESG impact investing
The EIF would invest in long-term projects through European impact bonds, equity and debt instruments issued by the European Commission
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Commission to use rescue plan to create ‘European yield curve’
‘In addition to issuing bonds with a maturity of up to 30 years, there will also be an emphasis on the short end’
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NewsDanica’s corporate clients back new sustainable pension
New investment option includes companies supporting the UN’s SDGs
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NewsClimate roundup: LGIM readies Paris-alignment solutions after model work
LGIM’s Nick Stansbury excited to have cracked an ‘incredibly challenging problem’
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Iceland’s pension funds sign sustainable investment declaration
Using capital properly determines the future of generations to come, financial firms agree
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NewsNBIM urges GRI standards to track outcomes of human rights efforts
Norway oil fund manager suggests GSSB’s revisions of Universal Standards could go further
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Standard-setters outline ‘vision’ for ESG corporate reporting solution
Quintet says ‘conditions are ripe for the development of a market-based and globally coherent solution for sustainability disclosure standards’
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UK secretary confirms plan to match ambition of EU sustainable finance
‘We want to help asset managers become effective stewards on behalf of clients’
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NewsPandemic to cause ‘immediate effect’ on INPS financial sustainability
INPS had already recorded negative results before the pandemic started to hit Italy hard in February and March
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Special ReportEU sustainable finance: Tentative steps on green classification
The first investors are already applying the EU’s green taxonomy but there are questions about the applicability of the Ecolabel to ESG funds
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Special ReportEU sustainable finance: Commission renews green vows
The EU is proposing a taxonomy for non-sustainable industries following the publication of the green taxonomy last year
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Special ReportEU sustainable finance: The promise of disclosures
New EU sustainability reporting requirements for investors could drive companies to improve disclosures. But making the new standards useful for end-investors could still be a challenge
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Special ReportEU sustainable finance: Impact uncertain
New EU climate benchmarks are getting industry take-up but not everyone is embracing them
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ESG roundup: PRI enters ‘landmark’ collaboration on ESG reporting
Plus: big rise in number of pension plans formalising ESG beliefs; LAPFF, Australians on Rio Tino cave blast bonus cuts
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Alecta moves Silberg up to head new governance and sustainability team
Ramsay Brufer to retire next year after 24 years at Swedish pensions heavyweight
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NewsPLSA delivers guide to ‘new discipline’ of implementation disclosures
Trustees encouraged to take time to produce meaningful reporting about about how investment principles were implemented
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Velliv helps Nuveen to $150m first close of global impact strategy
The strategy targets direct private equity investments in growth stage companies in developed and emerging markets
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NewsESG roundup: BlackRock flags expectations ‘refresh’ on social issues
Plus: new centre to drive real world impact of climate-aligned finance; SASB and GRI to showcase, explain complementarity
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Scope claims ‘disruption’ with new corporate ESG impact model
Assessment process focusses not on risk but on a company’s environmental and social externalities
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NewsPGGM misses €20bn impact investment target
By the end of 2019, the Dutch asset manager invested €18.3bn in four themes – climate change, food security, water and health
