ESG
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What the Mansion House speech means for green finance in the UK
Government reinstated the Bank of England’s mandate to support sustainable finance and updated remit letters of key regulators to refer to the need for investment in the green transition
Shareholder engagement drives human rights improvements at companies, finds research
Companies improve their human rights credentials 15% faster when they are subject to shareholder engagement, says WBA
Danish quartet invests €214m in bonds targeting UN goals
PFA, PKA, P+ and PenSam anchor new loss-guaranteed fund alongside government agency, with Danish SDG Investment Fund II aiming to raise DKK5bn in all
Investor coalition launches report on unequal voting rights sanctions
ICEV hopes report to be ‘useful guide’ for investors considering how to navigate ongoing dilution of shareholder and voting rights
Analysis
Italian institutional investors confronted with hard reality of net-zero transition
Panellists at Salone.SRI in Milan this week agreed that journey towards net zero will progress despite challenges
Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Let’s talk about responsible investment due diligence
Eilidh Wagstaff, senior specialist for multi-asset in the Principles for Responsible Investment’s (PRI) investor guidance team, takes stock of what’s working and what isn’t in responsible investment due diligence
Analysis
IPE ESG Briefing: COP29 dubbed ‘Finance COP’
Plus: Church Commissioners’ message on policies supporting 1.5°C pathway; NZAOA discloses portfolio decarbonisation of 80 asset owners
Special Report
Investors await influx of standardised corporate sustainability data
New EU corporate sustainability reporting standards will drive disclosures on hundreds of datapoints by thousands of companies.
Special Report
ESG: Investors embrace new challenges on 1.5°C climate goal
The world has changed considerably since we first started publishing this annual special report in 2018, not least in that the rise of greenwashing concerns is leading to a phasing-out of terms such as ESG.
Special Report
Pension funds outline progress towards net zero
Europe’s leading pension funds talk about their journey to net zero so far
Special Report
Investors raise their voice in responsible investment policy debate
Investors once shied away from the murky business of lobbying but now they are changing their tune
Country Report
Transition strategy one step at a time
Pension funds and asset managers are upping their game when it comes to the transition to a low-carbon economy
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Analysis
What happened at COP16?
Major deals were postponed at a UN summit as investors and the private sector busied themselves on the sidelines
Features
A new perspective on credit for climate transition
Sustainable finance has turned out to be a much dirtier and grittier battlefield than early adopters and advocates projected it to be.
Analysis
New EU green agenda: what investors ordered?
If you ask most investors what they think of the EU’s sustainable finance agenda, they will tell you it’s well-intentioned, but a total mess.
Interviews
Cassa Nazionale del Notariato: Megatrend investor
Stella Giovannoli, CIO and CFO at Italy’s Cassa Nazionale del Notariato, talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the efforts to modernise the fund
Podcast
#10 Leaders in Investment podcast: Conversation with Professor Dirk Schoenmaker, Investment Committee Chair, PFZW
In Episode #10 of IPE’s Leaders in Investment podcast series, IPE Editorial Director Liam Kennedy interviews Professor Dirk Schoenmaker, Investment Committee Chair at Dutch pension fund PFZW
Special Report
Have factor investing strategies had their day?
Factors have inspired indices, spin-offs and a variety of investment strategies but it has become hard to argue that they will offer investors a persistent future premium
Analysis
Thematic investing set to morph into impact investing
In the second article on a new survey, Vincent Mortier, Monica Defend and Amin Rajan argue that greater granularity in ESG investing is set to boost impact investing
Features
Impact investment: How change theory can boost key messages
Simply aligning an investment with one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) does not always convince individuals about the impact of an investment. Communicating about change can help.
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