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  • UK Investment Association draws up responsible investment framework

    18 November 2019

    The UK Investment Association (IA) has drawn up what it claims is the first industry-agreed framework and definitions for responsible investment.

  • ‘World-leading’ UK Stewardship Code aims for greenwashing crackdown

    24 October 2019

  • Australia launches HLEG-style sustainable finance initiative

    27 March 2019

    A group of leaders and senior executives at Australia’s major banks, superannuation funds and insurance companies has been assembled to devise a sustainable finance ‘roadmap’.

  • Investors challenge ESMA’s definition of sustainability risks

    26 February 2019

    BlackRock, Aviva and BNP Paribas Asset Management have each presented varying definitions of sustainability risks, in response to a consultation on how the EU should regulate investment fund managers.

  • People moves: IOSCO, London Stock Exchange Group, Simmons & Simmons, UBS

    19 October 2018

    Peter Damgaard Jensen has been appointed as co-organizer of the newly founded Global Commission on Adaptation. Damgaard Jensen also acts as CEO of Danish pension scheme PKA and chair of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), an investor association taking action to support a low-carbon future.

  • Majority of Australian investments are ‘responsible’, report finds

    09 August 2018

    More than half of all professionally managed investments in Australia were labelled ‘responsible’ in 2017, according to a survey of asset managers.

  • Australia and New Zealand to develop sustainable finance roadmap

    27 July 2018

    More than 300 organisations with a combined $10 trillion in assets have agreed to produce a roadmap to grow sustainable finance in Australia and New Zealand.

  • NZ Super moves $10bn passive equities to low-carbon

    16 August 2017

    New Zealand Super Fund has shifted its NZ$14 billion ($10 billion) global passive equity portfolio into a low-carbon strategy.

  • People moves: GIIN, CMIA, Church Commissioners, GCF

    30 June 2017

    The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has promoted Giselle Leung to managing director.

  • People Moves: EEM, Neuberger, Putnam

    05 May 2017

    Adrian Rimmer has left his position of CEO of carbon markets exchange European Environmental Markets (EEM) to focus on his other business interests and projects.