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  • $11trn group of investors back responsible mining commission

    23 November 2023
  • LGIM launches 'unique' ESG emerging market sovereign bond index fund

    06 November 2023

    Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) has launched a "unique" sustainability-focused emerging market (EM) sovereign bond index fund in its Future World series, which it said aims to "eliminate" the "ingrained income bias" that impacts sovereign ESG scores.

  • 190 investors sign up to collaborative engagement on nature

    26 September 2023

    190 institutional investors have signed up to collaborate to pressure 100 companies to address their negative impacts on nature, on the launch of Nature Action 100 (NA100) at Environmental Finance's Natural Capital Americas conference.

  • Follow This' Big Oil resolutions 'too prescriptive', says LGIM head

    27 July 2023

    Shareholder resolutions that asked Big Oil to strengthen their climate plans were "too prescriptive", according to a senior figure at one of Europe's largest asset managers.

  • LGIM 'to vote against 100 companies on deforestation'

    04 May 2023

    Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) expects to vote against the chairs of 100 companies for not having deforestation policies this year, an executive has said.

  • Assessing the relative transition readiness of real estate sectors

    03 February 2023

    There are significant differences in levels of transition readiness across the real estate sector, argues Matt Soffair, and owners of highly sustainable buildings may benefit from a 'scarcity premium'

  • COP15: $24trn investor group calls for agreement on Global Biodiversity Framework

    13 December 2022

    150 financial institutions representing over $24 trillion in assets under management have called on countries to adopt a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15).

  • Investors urge mandatory sustainability reporting for food firms

    14 June 2022
  • National Pension Trust commits £1bn default fund to ESG investing

    26 April 2022
  • COP26 round-up, 2 November: India, deforestation and methane

    02 November 2021

    A brief summary of the biggest news related to COP26 in Glasgow on 2 November.