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  • Will MAGA politics trump sustainability at US AGMs?

    13 March 2026

    The 'anti-ESG' movement threatens to further undermine support for shareholder proposals, Michael Hurley reports

  • Why asset managers are walking away from NZAM

    27 February 2026

    More than 70 asset managers have either left the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAM) or are taking an extended review period despite a recent relaunch, Environmental Finance understands.

  • SEC disclosure rules promise clarity - Trillium

    30 May 2022

  • People moves: BNP PAM, Trillium's new UK team, DSC Meridian and more...

    23 April 2021

  • Banks with $29trn in assets pledge to set 2050 'net zero' targets

    21 April 2021

    A group of banks with about $28.5 trillion in assets has joined a UN-convened 'Net Zero Banking Alliance', and in doing so pledged to "align operational and attributable emissions from their portfolios with pathways to net-zero by 2050 or sooner".

  • Perpetual closes $36m acquisition of ESG investor Trillium

    03 July 2020

    The $36 million acquisition of environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused investment firm Trillium Asset Management by Australian financial firm Perpetual has completed.

  • BlackRock urged to back words with actions in AGM season

    14 January 2019

    The world’s largest money manager has been pressured to back climate-related shareholder resolutions, in a letter addressed to its CEO Larry Fink by investors and NGOs.

  • Investors and corporates join forces in new plastics initiative

    31 October 2018

    More than 15 major institutional investors and organisations representing several hundred companies have joined forces in support of a new initiative "to eradicate plastic waste and pollution at source".

  • Investors and businesses call on Trump to back Paris Agreement

    15 March 2017

    Allianz, CalPERS and CalSTRS are among 1,000 investors and businesses to sign a statement calling for Donald Trump's administration to honour the Paris climate agreement.

  • Investors with €5trn of assets call for halt to arctic oil drilling

    07 November 2016

    A group of institutional investors, representing €5 trillion ($5.52 trillion) of assets under management, have called for a "permanent moratorium" on arctic oil drilling.