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SDGs drive engagement success, says BMO

BMO claims that a more sophisticated use of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in its 2018 engagement strategy ‘contributed significantly’ to 237 instances of positive change in companies’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies.

BMO GAM's SDG fund on the power of engagement

Jamie Jenkins of BMO Global Asset Management (GAM) speaks to Elena K. Johansson about how its fund creates value by talking with companies about making their businesses more sustainable.

Winners of Environmental Finance Bond Awards 2019 honoured by market

The Environmental Finance Bond Awards 2019 feature several repeat winners alongside many new names, as 13 extra categories were added this year in response to the rapid growth of social and sustainability bonds.

People Moves: BMO Global Asset Management, ClimateWorks Foundation, Japan's Financial Services Agency, Rockefeller Capital Management, Global Parametrics, Refinitiv, Aviva Investors, FIM Asset Management and S-Bank Wealth Management

BMO launches SDG engagement fund

BMO Global Asset Management has launched an equity fund that will actively engage with investee companies、 using the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework.

Southeast Asian banks targeted in BMO's 2019 engagement plan

BMO will target Southeast Asian banks for its engagements in 2019, in a move that sees a bigger role for the finance sector in combatting climate change.

People Moves: Columbia Threadneedle, Natixis, NBIM, BMO Capital Markets, Hong Kong Green Finance Association, FRC, Pattern Energy and NextEra Energy Partners

Columbia Threadneedle boosts responsible investment team

IIGCC publishes climate scenario analysis guide

Investors who use scenario analysis will be better equipped to respond to early warning signs, such as a rising carbon price, and take more informed investment decisions as the low-carbon transition evolves.

SDGs and repeat issuers will boost green bond market, says Moody's

Growing use of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by investors and bond issuers, coupled with a growing number of repeat issuers, will help drive future growth of the green bond market, said Moody's Investors Service.

Investors and corporates join forces in new plastics initiative

More than 15 major institutional investors and organisations representing several hundred companies have joined forces in support of a new initiative "to eradicate plastic waste and pollution at source".