Climate and stewardship practices lacking at investment firms
LCP survey finds encouraging focus on responsible investing across firms, but improvement needed in some areas
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French companies must hire more women executives
30% Club France Investor Group’s first annual report finds slow diversity progress in SPF120 but willingness to improve
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Embedding purpose at the heart of firms
John McCalla-Leacy, head of ESG at KPMG UK, explores three trends the company is eyeing in 2022
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Climate litigation strategy targets reputational harm
UKSIF panel hears how winning climate litigation isn’t always the end game for NGOs
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Green Dream with Octopus co-founder: Turbocharging the growth in the renewable sector
Chris Hulatt shares the group’s approach to impact investing and its real estate and renewable investment portfolios
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IIGCC calls on EU to exclude gas from Taxonomy
Open letter ‘strongly opposes’ inclusion but some call this view too binary
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The investment case for net-zero buildings
LGIM’s Rob Martin says users of real estate will increasingly select spaces on the basis of environmental outcomes
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Stewardship Outlook 2022: Scrutinise companies or risk investor wrath
‘It is easy to see governance as the Cinderella of the ESG story, but this year it will go to the ball’
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Tackle climate change or miss out on young talent
Gen Z will turn down roles and even take pay cuts to work with more ESG-conscious firms
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Impact outlook 2022: More strategies to launch and measurement to improve
A year of ‘real change’ for impact investing
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Good employee welfare: The ESG trend to watch in 2022
Aegon AM’s Laird takes a look at three companies getting employee welfare right
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The only way is up – vertical farming
Rize ETF co-founder looks at the sustainable technique disrupting the agricultural industry