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  • ERAFP and FRR to develop 'method to measure the effectiveness of engagement'

    10 February 2025

    A group of major French asset owners has co-led the creation of a group to devise a way to measure the effectiveness of investor engagement with corporates and their asset managers on issues including climate change.

  • Decline in energy sector's EU taxonomy alignment bucks positive trend in other sectors

    27 January 2025

    Energy companies reported a decline in their alignment with the EU taxonomy last year, bucking a trend of increased alignment in most other sectors which data provider Bloomberg said bolstered the use case for the taxonomy.

  • AXA IM adopts labels for three funds under FCA's sustainability regime

    20 January 2025
  • More 'honesty' needed about biodiversity funds, says AXA IM

    09 January 2025

    Investors are increasingly interested in the market's largest biodiversity strategy but better labelling guidelines is required, Anna Väänänen tells Genevieve Redgrave

  • Number of funds using FCA sustainability labels rises to 39, with more in pipeline

    08 January 2025

    The number of UK funds to have confirmed that they will use one of four sustainable investment labels has increased to 39, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • 'Dense and difficult to understand', French regulator says of taxonomy disclosures

    10 December 2024

    French banks and insurers have been told by their regulator to improve their taxonomy reporting after it criticised "dense and difficult to understand" disclosures that also omitted information that was required.

  • Two more investors adopt SDR labelling ahead of FCA deadline

    03 December 2024

    A pair of investors have adopted labelling under the Financial Conduct Authority's Sustainable Disclosure Requirements (SDR), ahead of yesterday's deadline.

  • People Moves, 18 October: Rebalance Earth, AXA IM, PIRC, Revaia

    18 October 2024
  • AXA UK fund to drop 'sustainable' from its name in response to FCA's SDR

    04 October 2024

    AXA Investment Managers UK plans to change the name of its Global Sustainable Distribution fund and the investment policy, in response to the incoming UK Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR).

  • Global Biodiversity Framework difficult to 'make actionable', says AXA IM

    03 October 2024

    The Global Biodiversity Framework is hard for companies to "make actionable", AXA Investment Managers has said, as it calls for more sector-specific tools to be developed at COP16.