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Your roadmap toward ESG performance

Five steps to get started on your journey and install a foundation for long-term success.

ABN Amro joins sustainable living platform

This involves a commitment by ABN AMRO to train at least 80% of its mortgage advisers as sustainable living advisers.

Emerging market green bond issuance hit $52bn in 2019: research

So far, investment flows since the start of the crisis have proven more resilient towards green investments when compared to their traditional counterparts.

Barclays bosses defend climate ambitions after 'fake oil' sprayed on headquarters

Investors voted remotely ahead of the meeting on two separate climate change motions - one backed by investor group ShareAction and the other by the Barclays board - with results due to be published later on Thursday.

Mifid II rules on ESG a timebomb for some advisers

Advisers said, currently, there are a limited number of clients that view ESG as an important consideration in portfolios.

ESG: The latest incarnation of marketing-led investment strategies By Mark Walker, Managing Partner at Tollymore Investment Partners

The latest incarnation of this pitchbook mentality comes in the form of ESG investing mandates.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s AIP Private Markets closes global climate impact fund

AIP Private Markets launched its impact investing platform in 2014 in partnership with the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing.

Virus-hit rich nations urged to keep climate-finance promises to poor

Amid fears some states could step back from funding pledges as coronavirus strains budgets, Germany appeals for international solidarity.

ESG shift driven by what really matters

If financial services firms were able to bury their heads in the sand on environmental issues before, they certainly can’t now.

Helping everybody profit from positive change

Financial intermediaries should accompany clients on this path, actively supporting cooperation between the private sector and sustainable finance.

Why covid-19 is a chance to propel transition to a more sustainable world

The outbreak of covid-19 poses a 'unique test' for governments in pursuing their environmental objectives

Northern Trust upgrades ESG analytics suite

This detailed analysis enables investors to track changes in a fund’s ESG profile over time, compare results on an absolute and relative basis, and compare asset managers’ scores against each other.

Planetary Boundaries: measuring the business world’s environmental footprint

The idea of “ethical” or “green” investing has gained ground in recent years, but it is hampered by a lack of quantitative definitions.

Putting the green into greenback

The funds delivered the results, the managers earned their fees and investors saw mouth-watering returns.

'Glacial pace': ShareAction slams European banks over sluggish action on climate crisis

BNP Paribas topped the rankings with a score of 63.2 per cent, and Lloyds was singled out as most improved, having shot up to second place after being deemed the worst offender in a prior edition of the survey published in 2017.

Is your low-carbon portfolio destroying the planet?

What leads to this counter-intuitive outcome?

European policymakers consult on new ESG standards

The SFDR empowers the ESAs to develop Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the content, methodology and presentation of ESG disclosures both at entity level and at product level.

The Rise Of Sustainable Investing

Twenty years can see an incredible amount of change and that has definitely been the case in my own specialist field, sustainable investing.

Covid-19: a lesson for investing in people and planet - Rathbone Greenbank

Dealing with the economic and social aftermath of the crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic will present formidable challenges.

Earth Day 2020: a worldwide call to boost climate action

The first Earth Day boosted environmental awareness and legislation.

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