Sustainability – Page 25
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Alecta moves Silberg up to head new governance and sustainability team
Ramsay Brufer to retire next year after 24 years at Swedish pensions heavyweight
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NewsPLSA delivers guide to ‘new discipline’ of implementation disclosures
Trustees encouraged to take time to produce meaningful reporting about about how investment principles were implemented
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Velliv helps Nuveen to $150m first close of global impact strategy
The strategy targets direct private equity investments in growth stage companies in developed and emerging markets
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NewsESG roundup: BlackRock flags expectations ‘refresh’ on social issues
Plus: new centre to drive real world impact of climate-aligned finance; SASB and GRI to showcase, explain complementarity
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Scope claims ‘disruption’ with new corporate ESG impact model
Assessment process focusses not on risk but on a company’s environmental and social externalities
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NewsPGGM misses €20bn impact investment target
By the end of 2019, the Dutch asset manager invested €18.3bn in four themes – climate change, food security, water and health
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NewsUnion Investment: German investors support carbon price increase
Research shows that institutional investors deployed more than half (56%) of their assets based on ESG criteria
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Industriens reshapes largest bond mandate into €1.2bn ESG fund
PIMCO tailors portfolio, only using issuers with low environmental impact, high social responsibility, healthy governance culture
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NewsNBIM warns against micro-managing boards on green issues
Sustainability motions from shareholders should be assessed on materiality and prescriptiveness, says Norwegian SWF manager
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NewsSwiss investors shift focus on real economy impact of ESG policies
‘Our goal is to have 100% sustainable investments in a few years’ time’
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‘Game-changer’ COVID-19 demands pension policy urgency, says Allianz
The current pandemic has ‘pushed up the need for pension reform several notches’
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Germany to gauge corporate sustainability with EU taxonomy
Results ‘will help maximise the relevance of the taxonomy for its users’
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NewsGerman basic pension raises questions of financial sustainability
The government plans to present various financing models, including a European financial transaction tax
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Asset management roundup: LGIM opens Nordic office
Plus: $110m climate solutions fund, absolute return fund ‘first’
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AP3 adds new top-down ‘CIO Office’ group to restyled organisation
Swedish buffer fund appoints heads of three new teams – equity, fixed-income & currency and alternative investments
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NewsESAs open consultation on draft investor ESG disclosure rules
Separate process may be launched on mandatory pre-contractual disclosure template
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NewsABP opposes remuneration proposals from Ahold Delhaize
Decision taken as supermarket chain didn’t take sustainability sufficiently into account, ABP said
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Japan’s GPIF partners with Dutch ministry in green bonds move
The fund also formed a partnership with Kommuninvest to develop sustainable capital markets through a focus on green bonds
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Skandia poll: Sustainability fails to rank as key factor
Fee level trumps sustainability, which just 8% cited as most important factor
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PFA launches climate pensions option to ‘set new standard’
Commercial pensions giant warns of short-term volatility in new investment option
