Investors call for more innovative ESG funds
Fund selectors indicate where they would welcome more variety in product offerings
Analysis (EU)
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Coutts’ ESG director: SDR will be hard work but worth it
Groups will need to apply for new objectives to fit SDR labels
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Less than a third of private companies set net-zero targets
Of the minority that do, only a small proportion have disclosed roadmaps
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Investors flock to ESG passives in Q3
Some 96% of sustainable fund flows were into passive strategies, according to Morningstar
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How to strengthen human rights due diligence in your supply chain
Companies are consistently failing to undertake human rights due diligence and identify forced labour in supply chains
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Majority of Black financial services employees experience discrimination
Reboot survey finds inappropriate jokes and racial slurs are commonplace
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SDR: Is this the ‘watershed’ moment for ESG in 2022?
The FCA listened, now it has delivered
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FCA’s Sadan: Fund labels will steer industry away from reliance on exclusions
In an interview with ESG Clarity, the FCA director of ESG discusses the SDR proposals
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73% of oil and gas projects near environmentally sensitive sites
RepRisk tool shows companies involved in extractive projects
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Scientists need place at sustainable finance table
Haste to find fastest and best biodiversity data leading to risk of unintended greenwashing
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Fast and unfair energy transition will fail
Guide for investors urges steps to ensure renewables do not repeat human rights record of oil and gas sector
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Biodiversity: The next big ESG wave and why it’s important to UK investors
Hargreaves Lansdown’s Tara Clee says ‘nature positive’ has become the new trending target