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Australian pension fund to exit coal amid climate announcements

Australian pension fund First State Super has outlined a number of climate change actions and targets, including exiting thermal coal, as it urged other Australian pension funds to do the same.

Foresight buys £1.8bn pension fund asset manager PiP

Foresight has agreed to buy the UK's Pension Infrastructure Platform (PiP) for an undisclosed sum as it continues to bolster its sustainable infrastructure assets.

People Moves, 10 July: BT Pension; Mirova; JPMorgan; RPMI Railpen; Aegon; Gresham House

UBS backs $182m impact fund for female tech entrepreneurs

Rethink Impact's second impact fund dedicated to investing in female entrepreneurs in technology raised $182 million at final close, including $56 million from UBS Wealth Management.

ISS ESG, Solactive create SDG impact indexes

A set of equity indexes designed to include only the companies that contribute the most net positive impact to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been devised by Solactive and ISS ESG.

Rocky Mountain Institute launches climate finance centre with US banks

The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) has launched a research centre to help shape the role that the financial industry has in driving the transition to a low-carbon economy, with four major US banks collaborating on the project

Axa IM strengthens gender diversity voting policy

Axa Investment Management has expanded its gender diversity voting policy for firms in developed and emerging market economies, as it continues to ramp up pressure on companies to improve their practices

Integrating inequalities: a new challenge for institutional investors

Investors must start to consider their role in tackling inequality, argues Jean-Jacques Barbéris

EU taxonomy has lessons for impact investing - KBI

Impact investors have been encouraged to repurpose the revenues-based approach of the EU's taxonomy for sustainable activities and use it to assess a portfolio's net contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Green and sustainability-linked loan round-up: CIP, Siemens Gamesa and more