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  • Most large French companies 'still don't have enough women on boards'

    17 January 2022

    A €5 trillion ($5.7 trillion) French investor initiative focused on improving corporate gender diversity hopes for "more tangible progress" in 2022...

  • Carbon allowances - insurers slowly warm to the net-zero opportunity

    09 December 2021

    The European benchmark price for carbon allowances hit a record high in November, but only one insurer acknowledges investing in them and others seem coy, so far, to deep their toes in, as Vincent Huck finds out.

  • $10trn asset owner alliance urges blended climate finance push

    29 November 2021

    The UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) has urged development finance institutions (DFIs) to better use public-private finance partnerships...

  • AllianzGI, EIB target €500m for emerging markets impact fund

    08 November 2021

    Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have raised €440 million ($509 million) for a blended finance fund that will invest in climate-focused investment funds and projects active in emerging markets and developing countries.

  • People Moves 15 October: McKinley returns to BlackRock, Leigh-Bell leaves CBI, and Howchin quits Swedish funds

    15 October 2021
  • People moves 3 September: MSCI, Neuberger Berman, APG, Allianz GI, Carlyle Group and more

    03 September 2021
  • Koch leaves DWS for AllianzGI

    03 September 2021
  • People moves: DWS, Mercer, Robeco, NN IP, AIG ... and more

    13 August 2021
  • Robeco poaches UBS researchers

    13 August 2021
  • $14trn investor group pushes for AGM vote on 'net zero' claims

    30 July 2021

    A group of 53 investors with a combined $14 trillion of assets under management has called for new climate-related corporate governance measures, including an annual general meeting (AGM) vote on corporate 'net zero' transition plans.