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  • Investors pressure oil and gas companies to improve methane disclosures

    22 October 2018

    Investor heavyweights Robeco and California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) have thrown their weight behind an initiative urging oil and gas companies to improve their disclosure of methane emissions.

  • CBA, Samsung and Bayer dropped from DJSI World index

    13 September 2018

    S&P Dow Jones Indices and RobecoSAM have excluded Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), Samsung Electronics and healthcare company Bayer from the widely-followed Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World).

  • RobecoSAM launches electric vehicle strategy

    28 August 2018

    RobecoSAM has launched a new strategy designed to plug into the massive expected growth in the sales of electric vehicles (EVs).

  • Project to harmonise reporting standards set for launch

    08 August 2018

    The Corporate Reporting Dialogue (CRD), a collaboration of major corporate reporting frameworks and standards, is planning to launch a harmonisation project.

  • Should non-financial reporting frameworks be harmonised?

    08 August 2018

    There is a baffling array of sustainability-focused reporting frameworks and standards. Would it be beneficial to bring them into alignment, asks Elena Johansson.

  • People Moves: New York State Common Retirement Fund, 2° Investing Initiative, MSCI and ClimateWise

    27 July 2018

    Anastasia Titarchuk has been announced as interim CIO of the New York State Common Retirement Fund, replacing Vicki Fuller who will retire next week after six years of service.

  • Robeco wins UK pension engagement mandate

    10 July 2018

    The £43 billion ($57 billion) Border to Coast Pensions Partnership has chosen Robeco to perform its voting and engagement services.

  • Robeco targets SDG-positive bonds with new credit strategy

    29 May 2018

    Robeco and RobecoSAM have introduced a new fund that will be allocated to bonds issued by corporates in alignment with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • Climate and SDGs to be focus of French pension fund's new SRI strategy

    28 May 2018

    Climate change is “the biggest risk” to the €36.4 billion ($44 billion) FRR pension fund in coming years, Salwa Boussoukaya-Nasr, chief investment officer of the pension fund, tells Michael Hurley.

  • People moves, 4 May 2018: RobecoSAM, Mercer

    04 May 2018

    RobecoSAM changes CEO as part of restructure