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  • GBPs appoint first Chinese member of executive committee

    15 June 2017

    Bank of China has become the first Chinese player to join the executive committee of the Green Bond Principles (GBPs).

  • The impact of youth

    22 May 2017

    Impact investing remains a niche pursuit but could millennials prove a game changer, asks Joe Walsh

  • Investors with $15trn in AUM call on global governments to implement Paris Agreement

    08 May 2017

    Investors representing more than $15 trillion in assets under management (AUM) have written to the governments of G7 and G20 countries calling on them to support and implement the commitments of the Paris Agreement, to limit global temperature increase to less than 2°C.

  • Zurich's CIO explains the importance of ESG

    08 May 2017

    Urban Angehrn oversees Zurich Insurance Group's $190 billion asset book. With no pure asset management business in the group, he talks to Asa Gibson about how responsible investment fits in with its asset management selection process.

  • Actiam excludes coal mining companies

    03 May 2017

    Dutch asset manager Actiam will exclude companies that earn more than 15% of revenues from coal

  • Comment: Insurers need to move from climate talk to climate action

    28 April 2017

    Could Axa's decision this week to stop underwriting coal projects be copied by the rest of the insurance sector, asks Peter Bosshard

  • Exxon board fights climate resolution

    25 April 2017

    ExxonMobil's board has refused to support a climate change resolution backed by investors with over $10 trillion in assets under management (AUM).

  • Axa's investment arm follows insurer in coal divestment

    25 April 2017

    Axa Investment Managers (IM) has followed in the footsteps of its insurance arm by committing to divest its holdings in companies that derive 50% or more of their revenues from coal.

  • Insurers' strategic responses to climate change

    11 April 2017

    The third and final part of this series of features about the insurance sector looks at group level responses to climate change. Peter Cripps reports

  • More than a third of insurers looking to increase ESG allocation

    07 April 2017

    More than a third, 38%, of insurers plan to increase their allocation to ESG strategies over the year, according to a survey by AXA Investment Managers (IM).