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  • Pacific Fonder adds Green World strategy

    10 August 2018

    Swedish active asset manager Pacific Fonder has created a new investment strategy called Green World for its Pacific Multi Asset fund.

  • BlackRock launches ESG emerging market debt funds

    10 August 2018

    With the products expected to spark interest amongst insurers

  • UK pension fund forum urges greater climate action from 16 firms

    10 August 2018

    The UK Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) issued several climate-related voting alerts to ramp up pressure on 16 oil and gas, mining and transport companies in the second quarter of this year.

  • Report claiming fossil fuel divestment would cost pension funds billions branded 'misleading'

    09 August 2018

    A report commissioned by the petroleum industry that claims US pension funds would stand to lose billions of dollars in returns if they fully divested fossil fuel stocks has been branded “particularly misleading”.

  • Majority of Australian investments are ‘responsible’, report finds

    09 August 2018

    More than half of all professionally managed investments in Australia were labelled ‘responsible’ in 2017, according to a survey of asset managers.

  • Green bond round-up, 8 August 2018

    08 August 2018

    SEB observes ‘considerable’ slowdown in July issuance

  • 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.

  • Integrated reporting database launched

    08 August 2018

    The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) has launched an academic database allowing access to research on integrated reporting.

  • California signs Green Bond Pledge

    08 August 2018

    California has become the first state to sign a pledge to issue green bonds to fund infrastructure projects.