All Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) articles – Page 7
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NewsESAs call for development of securitised assets’ disclosure standards
Lack of climate-related data on assets underlying structured finance products poses obstacle for classification of products and services under taxonomy and SFDR
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NewsBaFin updates guidelines on taxonomy-compliant gas and nuclear investments
The new guideline does not apply if nuclear energy and fossil gas are excluded from the pool of investments
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NewsAustria sees AUM increase in real estate, private equity funds
The country’s fund industry saw assets declining by 13.2% to €200.2bn last year
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NewsWave of sustainability downgrades affects pension funds too
If an asset manager has downgraded a lot of funds from Article 9 to Article 8 under the SFDR, this could be an indication of greenwashing
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NewsBaFin gives go-ahead to engagement platform for asset owners, managers
Sustainable finance advisory committee to set up platform and publish taxonomy paper, while taking clear stance on ESMA’s ESG consultation
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Special ReportNatural capital: Investors press for impact
The focus is starting to shift from pure risk reporting to ensure that investments have a positive effect on declining biodiversity
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Special ReportNatural capital: Industry turns its gaze on biodiversity
Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures sets out to create a framework to help financial institutions and companies report their dependencies and impacts on nature
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NewsUK roundup: L&G Mastertrust reaches £20bn AUM milestone
Plus: Smart Pension achieves 50% cut in default growth fund emissions, 20-20 Trustees to merge with Punter Southall Governance Services
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NewsNatureAlpha partners with MSCI for nature, biodiversity tracking
The partnership will provide clients with enhanced comprehensive reporting in response to growing regulatory pressures, including SFDR and TNFD
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NewsBVI slams ESMA’s draft guidelines on ESG, sustainability labels
EFAMA highlights concerns about proposed numerical threshold approach
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NewsEU standards for ESG benchmarks could give funds ‘automatic’ pass under SFDR
Index providers will often direct clients to third-party data houses if they want more details about ESG
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NewsThe fight over SFDR’s role as a sustainability label
‘In the absence of an EU-wide labelling regime for ESG funds, some managers have also used Articles 8 and 9 as proxy labels for communication purposes,’ ESMA says
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NewsFrench regulator calls for targeted SFDR review
AMF proposes the introduction of minimum environmental requirements and calls for exclusion of fossil fuel activities
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NewsEurope leads the way in global sustainable investing, says Morningstar report
At end-2022, sustainable funds accounted for 20% of European fund assets
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NewsMirova – Ecolabel can help tackle greenwashing
But if too strict criteria are being applied, the label would risk missing its goal, according to the French impact asset manager
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NewsFCA’s clampdown on greenwashing requires clarity for success, say consultants
The SDR proposals should also apply to products marketed for institutional investors, including pension schemes, says Redington
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NewsUK roundup: Tioxide Pension Fund in £430m buy-in deal with L&G
Plus: Smart Pension launches sustainable investment strategies; Pensions Management Institute partners with Phoenix CIS
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: And if we trusted the market to improve ESG information?
What trust would one put in financial information that is solely reserved for investors and not published, that no independent analyst could challenge, given that the regulator would have no way of guaranteeing its veracity either?
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NewsAustrian regulator intensifies supervision on sustainable products under new EU rules
The Delegated Regulation specifies the content, methods and presentation of information in a ‘practical and precise manner’
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Beyond Article 9, is there a regulation to promote real sustainability?
Recent events have shown how anticipating forthcoming clarification on the application of a text that has been published since 2019 has created such confusion that many asset managers have had to reclassify a large number of their funds from Article 9 to Article 8.
