ESG Special Reports – Page 6
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UK Stewardship Code: a platform for impact
Investors and specialist managers could use the UK’s revised Stewardship Code to showcase intentionality and impact
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Towards a sustainable portfolio theory
Applying monetary values to impacts would allow investors to direct capital better and assess opportunities for improved long-term returns
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Data: focus on impact hurdles
An increasing number of impact funds link carried interest to impact goals. Asset owners can help by encouraging this trend
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Special Report – Manager selection
With COVID-19 now under control, the business of selecting managers no longer has to deal with severe restrictions on travel and face-to-face interactions. However, the pandemic has taught investors and manager selection advisers some important lessons.
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Manager selection: Market trends
Manager selection consultants are helping investors navigate the next stages of ESG integration
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Special Report - Regulation
Europe’s flagship SFDR regime for ESG was never intended to become a fund-labelling framework. So as Susanna Rust also writes in this issue, it is a relief that the EU is now consulting on minimum requirements for Article 8 funds. In this Special Report, we look in some depth at how asset managers have embraced SFDR, taking in the broad reclassification exercise that has taken place to relabel existing funds, and the short-term risks of greenwashing. In the longer term, the hope is for much more standardisation and there are signs that this is already happening.
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Regulation: SFDR put to the test
One year in and the verdict on the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is mixed
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MiFID II: A threat to European sustainability?
MiFID II is unintentionally jeopardising the long-term objectives of ESG investors
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Special Report – Sustainability & reporting
Increasing levels of ESG investing require greater transparency across the value chain, not least from companies. Enter the International Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, which will take shape this year and which is currently recruiting 11 inaugural board members.
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ISSB: A new body for sustainability standards
As it comes to life, the new International Sustainability Standards Board faces a complex path towards harmonisation of fragmented frameworks
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Energy: Are pension funds missing out in the rush to decarbonise?
As investors divest from fossil fuels, others are stepping in, and the result is not lower emissions from the hydrocarbon industry
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Towards Net Zero: COP26 and Beyond for Institutional Investors
The term Net Zero is becoming entrenched in political and business life as governments, banks, insurers, asset owners and, not least, corporates sign up to demanding pledges to reduce carbon emissions in the service of limiting global temperature rises to within 1.5C. Our extensive Special Report looks at Net Zero through an institutional lens, talking to leading pension funds about their climate related commitments, but covering also areas like carbon pricing, portfolio transition, blended finance and the latest investment research
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Money and commitment needed
The term ‘net zero’ is becoming entrenched in political and business life as governments, banks, insurers, asset owners and, not least, corporates sign up to demanding pledges to reduce carbon emissions in the service of limiting global temperature rises to within 1.5°C.
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PensionDanmark: Real-world impact and active ownership
The fund bases its ESG investments on engagement, screening and active ownership
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BT Pension Scheme: Ambitious 2035 net-zero target
The pension scheme has set itself a series of tough climate objectives
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Border to Coast: Climate solutions provider for the public sector
The asset pool has released a standalone climate-change policy to meet net zero
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PFA Pension: First interim target is ‘ambitious but realistic’
The pension provider is decarbonising its portfolio one asset class at a time
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Inarcassa: Continuous carbon reduction targets
The fund is embracing thematic investments and Paris-aligned benchmarks
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Carbon price: Dear greenhouse gases
Global carbon markets are expanding as prices increase, with consequences both for companies and their investors