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Square Mile appoints industry veterans to newly created sustainability board
Bev Shah, Neville White and Alan Whittle join internal members from Square Mile
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More rigorous ESG fund classification necessary as uncertainty remains
CFA Institute report sets out to clearly define what an ESG fund is, as ambiguity around the terms persists
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Leading change: How are fund managers walking the walk?
Those not flexing their stewardship muscles are getting called out, writes Jake Moeller
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Three models to improve health reporting in portfolios
Food manufacturers ‘continue to make big excuses’, says ShareAction
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94% of investors consider defence stocks ESG friendly
ESG investors have stopped divesting from defence stocks and started buying them since the invasion of Ukraine
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Tool developed to help stakeholders understand and assess corporate pay structures
UK asset owners collaborated with the High Pay Centre to create the Fair Reward Framework, with 65 FTSE 100 companies included in the pilot
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£1.6trn investor group write to UK’s largest companies calling for urgent response on climate transition plans
Letter sent to 76 FTSE 100 companies including Schroders and Hargreaves Lansdown
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Investment firms urged to review ESG policies as evidence grows of inadvertent divestment from EMs
The World Benchmarking Alliance and participating asset owners say asset managers need to reassess sustainable strategies
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Next Generation with Square Mile’s Pampolin: Switching from politics to investments to drive real change
In the last of this series, Guilherme Pampolin discusses promoting true sustainability and preventing another backlash
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Investors urged to strengthen investment policies around protected biodiverse areas
ShareAction report says asset managers have ‘significant room for improvement’ in protecting against biodiversity risk
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What to expect in SFDR overhaul
Simplicity and precision should be the highest priorities, says CFA Institute’s Chris Fidler
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Firms identify key barriers to business decarbonisation
Net zero a priority but firms point to ‘substantial challenges’ in the UK Net Zero Business Census
