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  • 13% of European insurance assets exposed to climate risk

    05 April 2019

    Eiopa tells French insurers at Paris conference

  • People Moves: Natixis, Wells Fargo Asset Management, Schroders, PIMCO, Truvalue Labs, MSCI, SASB, Boston Trust and Walden, ANZ and Swiss Association for Responsible Investment

    15 February 2019

    Harald Walkate has been appointed as Natixis Investment Managers' first head of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ESG.

  • People moves: CalPERS, FCLTGlobal, NNIP, Lightsource BP, ALLCOT Colombia

    18 January 2019

    Elisabeth Bourqui has resigned as chief operating investment officer at public pension fund California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), after less than eight months in office.

  • Schroders launches sustainable equity fund

    10 January 2019

    Schroders has launched a European sustainable equity fund, which adopts a best-in-class investment approach as well as exclusions on environmental, social and governance (ESG) themes.

  • $32trn group of investors demand greater government climate action

    10 December 2018

    Investors with a combined $32 trillion in assets have demanded governments increase action to tackle climate change.

  • Alpha flows from alternative ESG data, says Schroders

    09 November 2018

    Identifying long-term environmental, social and governance (ESG) winners is about creating an individual approach to sustainable investing und using alternative data, said a Schroders' portfolio manager.

  • Natixis proposes toolkit to tackle SDG-washing

    21 September 2018

    Investors are "massively dissatisfied" with the way companies report their contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to Natixis.

  • Sustainability 'not a significant influence' for most institutional investors

    03 September 2018

    Little more than a quarter of investors say that sustainability factors have a significant role in their investment decision making.

  • Climate change increases cost of debt for developing countries

    06 August 2018

    The intensification of climate risks and the degree to which they are accurately priced by financial markets are of increasing concern to global economic stability. However, as awareness around those risks has risen over the last years, there is still a long way to go to consistently measure and monitor their costs, which can result in substantial gains or losses for institutional investors. Vincent Huck reports

  • SDGs are not a 'silver bullet' for investors, says Schroders

    12 March 2018

    Schroders has expressed its concern that the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are "misappropriated and misused", as "they were not designed for investors" in the first place.