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$6bn charity criticises 'appalling' climate voting records of major investors, advisors
27 October 2020The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) has sent a letter to a dozen major global investors, pension consultants and proxy voting advisors criticising their "appalling" records for using shareholders' votes to deliver the transition to a net-zero economy.
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ESG ETF assets could hit over 3% of market by 2029, Morgan Stanley
07 August 2020Rapid growth of assets in environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused exchange traded funds (ETFs) could see them hit almost $600 billion - equivalent to around 3.2% of the total market - by 2029, according to Morgan Stanley.
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Largest fund managers oppose four-fifths of climate-related shareholder motions
14 October 2019Fund managers BlackRock and Vanguard have opposed or abstained on average over 80% of climate related shareholder motions between 2015 and 2019.
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US ‘sustainable’ funds smash annual record inflows in six months
12 July 2019US open-end and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) labelled ‘sustainable’ have smashed the previous annual record for inflows in just six months, marking a stellar start to 2019.
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Green bonds round-up - 24 Oct - 17 new deals
24 October 2018Royal Schiphol Group, the owner of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, has priced a green bond worth €500 million ($576 million), making it the first European airport to issue green-labelled notes.
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Investors wake up to collective engagement clout
26 March 2018Climate-related resolutions at Exxon and Shell garnered the support of the world's largest investors. Now asset managers and owners are massing together to move entire sectors, writes Michael Hurley.
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Growing shareholder support for climate action still "a work in progress"
06 November 2017Shareholder support for climate risk initiatives has surged in 2017 but some of the world's largest asset managers have only just started taking action, according to a report by 50/50 Climate Project.
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US asset owners are waking up to climate change
31 July 2017There is increasing evidence that US investors are factoring climate change into their investment decisions, argues Meg Voorhes
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Shareholders to march on AGM season buoyed by Paris & TCFD
31 March 2017With more than 100 environmental shareholder resolutions already filed, it is financial firms as well as the oil & gas majors that are in the firing line, reports Joe Walsh
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Database reveals financiers behind tropical deforestation projects
06 September 2016At least $38 billion of loans and underwriting facilities were provided, between 2010 and 2015, to the forestry operations of the 50 companies most involved in commodities responsible for tropical deforestation in southeast Asia.