Aviva seeks assurances on antibiotic actions
Aviva Investors is urging pharmaceutical companies to consider the threat to their business models posed by antibiotic resistance through a series of meetings and sharing examples of best practice.
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UK investment group launches diversity drive
The trade body for the UK investment industry has launched a new campaign to promote diversity in the workforce of asset managers.
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New ESG guidance for listed companies
A trade group for the world’s stock exchanges has revised its ESG guidance policy to encourage listed companies to provide better information on sustainability and governance issues.
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US hedge funds and PE firms still behind on ESG
Nearly a third of private equity and hedge fund managers in the United States are still largely ignoring environmental, social and governance factors in their investment approaches, according to new research.
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Russia begins to embrace global ESG trend
Russia and ethical investing are not typical bedfellows, but the country is beginning to embrace the global sustainability trend.
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Moulding holdings around plastic clampdown
Encouraging biodegradable packaging and avoiding single-use plastics is becoming part of firms’ ESG criteria in the face of plastics’ destructive impact on oceans.
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Investors say one year of underperformance is the limit
Most investors are unwilling to suffer underperformance in an environmental, social and governance-based strategy for more than 12 months, a poll has shown.
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Clarity Clinic: Honor Fell, Redington
Redington’s Honor Fell tells ESG Clarity how consultants have adjusted their fund manager assessment methods, and why data holds the key to investor awareness.
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US advisers question the “cost” of ESG
More than a third of US investment advisers believe they have to sacrifice returns, to include environmental, social and governance metrics into investment portfolios, a survey has found.
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The art of predicting the future
Socially-responsible investing is not about short-term gains, says Union Investment’s sustainability chief Florian Sommer, it’s about divining future business trends and working out which companies are best able to adapt.
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REVEALED: The fund firms exposed to US child detention camps
Blackrock has blamed index tracking products for its large stake in a contractor involved in child detention centres in the US.
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Give us tools to prove ESG’s impact, say investors
Investors say they have insufficient tools to measure the financial impact of embracing ESG metrics in their investment strategies, according to a new poll.