Is greenwashing a big problem for the financial advice market?
High-net-worth individuals admit scepticism and mistrust are preventing them from investing in green and social impact funds
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$10trn investor coalition piles pressure on companies to address plastic crisis
185 investment firms target food and goods companies in joint statement demanding action
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Barclays AGM: ‘World cannot function without fossil fuels’
Bank stands firm on oil and gas financing despite shareholder disruption
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Paying the living wage is good for business
In 1914, Henry Ford more than doubled workers’ wages to $5 a day and shortened the workday to eight hours
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Green Dream with Fidelity’s Tan: Divestment is a failure of engagement
Global head of stewardship reveals what’s in the firm’s engagement toolkit
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How Nordea engages high emitters
Examples of interactions with Ashland, Hawaiian Electric Industries and Xcel Energy
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Investors lack awareness of extraction project risks
RepRisk finds correlation between proximity of projects to environmental sites and an increase in risk incidents
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How US investors are tackling ESG this AGM season
Shareholders deploy new tactics to force change at polluting companies
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Castlefield Q&A part 2: Large CSR departments can skew ESG ratings
Lack of data and consistency are big problems
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Just 17% of asset managers have a decarbonisation strategy
Redington looks at net-zero pledges two years on
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EU carbon market reforms will ‘stop investor reliance on voluntary frameworks’
Last week EU ministers approved sweeping reforms that aim to cut emissions by 55% from 1990 levels by 2030
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Article 9 ETFs underperform Article 8 counterparts on SFDR indicators
Study also finds misalignment with SDGs in Article 9 ETFs