China’s mixed signals and ESG trade-offs
Asset managers predict continued growth of opportunities despite some disappointments at COP26 and a recent U-turn on coal
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Just 5% of dads in asset management take full parental leave
On International Men’s Day, businesses are encouraged to support fathers in taking parental leave
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Real estate managers worst for diversity
Asset managers are not considering diversity in investment decisions and are overstating it in their own firms
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ESG emerging markets investing beyond ‘G’
Morningstar looks at three EM strategies integrating E and S factors into their research and analysis
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Real estate assets will be stranded for environmental failures
Massive capex bill coming as most UK assets fail to meet impending EPC standards
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SDGs: Top Trumps of sustainable finance?
Scale and ambition of the goals risks getting lost in the investment community’s attempts to silo and simplify them
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Chaos for Christmas? An ESG lens on the trucking crisis
‘Asset managers can put pressure on haulage companies to provide better deals for drivers’
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FTSE firms are referencing biodiversity ‘without substance’
Financials are ‘too distant’ from their impact on nature
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Crisis Talks with XR: Staggering the end of new fossil fuel finance will distort the market
In the latest video in this ESG Clarity series, climate activists and a responsible investment expert discuss how fast investment in new fossil fuels should come to an end
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Podcast: On the ground in Glasgow
Investment industry voices at COP26
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Social enterprise fund reopens to address unequal social effects of pandemic
Half of grants aimed at groups led by people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, LGBTQ+ communities and disabled people
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Renewable trust NAV declines are unnerving some investors
QuotedData’s James Carthew looks at how declining forecasts of long-term power prices are impacting renewable investment trusts