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  • Inflows to sustainable funds down by almost half over 2024

    28 January 2025

    Global sustainable open-end and exchange-traded funds saw inflows shrink by almost half over 2024 despite a "boom" for mainstream strategies, according to data from Morningstar Sustainalytics.

  • People Moves, 10 January: SBTi, S&P, Impax, Natixis, HSBC, Morningstar Sustainalytics ... and more

    10 January 2025
  • BlackRock bows to legal threats and departs net zero initiative

    10 January 2025

    BlackRock has left the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, citing "legal inquiries from various public officials" in the US attacking its stated focus on climate finance.

  • Global Biodiversity Framework 'in jeopardy' after COP16 finance failure

    04 November 2024

    The COP16 biodiversity summit has failed to reach agreement on crucial issues relating to finance, leaving delivery of the landmark Global Biodiversity Framework agreed two years ago "in jeopardy".

  • 'Worrying trend' as investors continue to withdraw money from dark green funds

    30 October 2024
  • Morningstar forecasts more upheaval in sustainable funds space as closures continue

    25 October 2024
  • UK firms facing 'cliff-edge' risks of fund name rule breach given reprieve by regulator

    09 September 2024

    Fund managers struggling to meet a looming deadline to comply with UK sustainability name rules have been given an extension by their regulator.

  • Vanguard did not support any environmental proposals last year

    30 August 2024

    Vanguard did not support any of 400 environmental or social shareholder proposals it encountered in the most recent proxy season, arguing that the proposals were either not addressing financially material aspects or "were overly prescriptive".

  • Putting transition plans to the test: Morningstar Sustainalytics

    29 August 2024

    Investors face a tough task scrutinising corporate transition plans - but an increasing number of tools promise to help. In the fourth article in a series, Michael Hurley examines Sustainalytics's Low Carbon Transition Ratings

  • Moody's SPO share surge continues as 'big four' consolidate

    30 July 2024

    The 'big four' sustainable finance second-party opinion (SPO) providers consolidated their market share in the first six months of 2024, with Moody's seeing another significant jump in share.