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BAML targets more ESG impact measuring
15 February 2017Bank of America Merril Lynch's (BAML) wealth management division is aiming to ramp up its focus on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing by offering more options and more measurement of impact.
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TCFD to bolster shareholder climate resolutions
13 February 2017The work of the Financial Stability Board's (FSB) Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) will make it harder for companies to ignore the dozens of shareholder resolutions on climate change that have already been filed this year, according to a US-based pension fund.
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BlueBay expands ESG fixed-income investment activities
10 February 2017Fixed-income investment manager BlueBay Asset Management has created a high-yield bond investment strategy which applies additional environmental, social and governance (ESG) exclusions.
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Investors target climate at AGM season
08 February 2017Investors with assets of approximately £17 billion ($21.1 billion) have called on shareholders to back resolutions requiring climate disclosure and forcing companies to deal with the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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MSCI launches ESG indexes targeting 'world's largest asset owners'
08 February 2017US-based index provider MSCI has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG) index series targeted at universal investors with diversified portfolios.
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Cambridge pushes to become largest university to divest from fossil fuels
07 February 2017Cambridge University's governing body, Regent House, has passed a motion to divest its £5.8 billion ($7.2 billion) endowment fund from fossil fuels. If successful Cambridge would be the largest in the world to do so.
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KfW identifies energy efficiency as a major financing theme
01 February 2017German development bank KfW financed some €20.7 billion ($22.3 billion) of energy efficiency projects last year, out of total commitments of €81 billion.
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Green growth is the deal of the century. Will the Dealmaker-in-Chief realise it?
01 February 2017If Donald Trump really wants to 'get America winning again', he ought to seize opportunities presented by the transition to a low-carbon economy, argues Fenella Aouane.
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Best performing funds of 2016: Impax Environmental Markets (Ireland) Fund
30 January 2017An uptick in investors' interest in environmental-themed equities, following the Paris Agreement, helped make 2016 a 'vintage' year for the Impax Environmental Markets (Ireland) Fund, reports Hamza Ali
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Financiers praise 'Positive Impact' Principles
30 January 2017The Principles for Positive Impact Finance were hailed as "an important step in ... overcoming the funding gap for sustainable development" at their launch today in Paris.