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  • Investors back Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing

    10 November 2020

    A Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing has been published with support from a group of UK-based investors including M&G, Insight and Legal & General.

  • People moves 6 November: Pollination, Janus Henderson, Blackstone ... and more

    06 November 2020

    Templeton leaves GIG to join Pollination

  • UK lawmakers urged to strengthen ESG focus of pension funds

    05 November 2020

    UK legislators were urged to back a law to compel managers of the £2.8 trillion ($3.6 trillion) in pension fund assets to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors as part of their fiduciary duty to clients, including through the creation of a Scandinavian-style ethics council.

  • UK "could spur more sovereign 'green+' bonds" in runup to COP

    08 October 2020

    The UK government has been urged to issue a 'green+ bond' that could be imitated by other sovereigns looking to raise the ambition of their climate goals in the run-up to COP26.

  • Push for UK 'green+' sovereign bond gathers momentum

    07 October 2020

  • Impact Investing Institute launches principles for pension trustees

    05 October 2020

    The UK's Impact Investing Institute has developed principles for pension trustees intended to give an 'accessible, practical insight' into the field as well as steps they can take to develop an investment strategy.

  • Gender investing 'key to Covid-19 recovery', say experts

    29 July 2020

    Female-led projects are key to rebuilding following the Covid-19 outbreak, according to a panel discussion hosted by the Impact Investing Institute.

  • ESG reporting key to ride 'wave' of social housing investment

    27 May 2020

    M&G and Insight Investment are among organisations that have drawn up draft criteria for social housing sustainability reporting, as they suggest "we are at the early stages of what may be a wave of equity investment in affordable housing".

  • Technology holds key to impact reporting, UK Impact Investing Institute says

    16 January 2020

    The UK Impact Investing Institute has invited technology companies and data providers to drive the convergence of approaches to measuring and reporting impact, in its first report since it launched.

  • People Moves, 29 November

    29 November 2019