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Schroders reinforces its commitment to achieving net-zero with science-based targets

Schroders will ensure that its low-carbon transformation is closely aligned with climate science.

What Asset Managers Need to Know About Marketing ESG in 2021

Fast forward to 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic has led to market volatility and industry-wide disruption, but one positive thing that has emerged from 2020 is a heightened focus on ESG.

Major Investor Hits Out Over ESG

Cevian is currently invested in 15 European companies and manages the equivalent of about 14.3 billion Swiss francs ($15.6 billion).

ESG – Niche to mainstream

It aims to improve disclosures on the principal adverse impacts of investment decisions and on the integration of sustainability factors within financial products, while also stamping out so-called ‘greenwashing’ of ESG funds.

Northern Trust Selected by Osmosis Investment Management to Support Fossil Fuel Free Common Contractual Fund

Asset Servicing Solutions Support Launch and Distribution Strategy for US$2 Billion Sustainable Investment Manager

Quilter Financial Planning introduces ESG integration assessments for investment proposition

The second measures ESG at a portfolio level and highlights how much the manager uses ESG as an integrated part of their investment process.

Debt engineers tackle climate change with bonds to rewild land

Activists lobbying for securities that more explicitly protect the natural world, and they are likely to get a hearing from policymakers when the UN meets in coming months

Amundi, Candriam, La Banque Postale and Robeco scoop green fund awards

Investor demand for sustainable funds accelerated sharply in 2020

UK to launch first green savings bond to boost climate credentials

Move to issue bonds to back clean energy projects comes ahead of UN summit

Handelsbanken introduces sustainability goals – net zero emissions by 2040

Handelsbanken’s goal is to achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases as soon as possible, and by 2040 at the latest.

HSBC, Barclays challenged over bond linked to Vietnamese coal project

Legal experts say this could be just the first in a series of challenges to banks over indirect financing at odds with their climate commitments.

London regains top spot in Schroders Global Cities Index after climate change response boosts ranking

Introduction of Transport Score sees significant shake-up of the top 30 cities

Jupiter commits to net zero by 2050 across £56bn investment portfolio

Asset manager promises to set interim 2030 emissions reduction targets by the end of this year as it works to achieve net zero by mid-century

Human rights and climate crisis give HSBC an image problem

The bank, which is due to reveal its annual results this week, faces more challenges than the impact of Covid-19 on profits

The Developing Regulatory Approach to Climate Change and the Importance for Financial Services

Climate change presents financial risks to various participants in the financial sector.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management launches Global Income Sustainable Fund

This will produce a portfolio with a higher overall ESG score and a materially lower carbon footprint.

UK companies face greater scrutiny on climate risks at upcoming AGMs

Investment Association warns it will flag inadequate reporting on global warming to asset managers

Climate change and grape-growing: is wine still flowing or are vineyards drying up?

We harvest our grapes over a shorter period nowadays.

Legal & General IM adds sustainable bond fund to fixed income ETF range

The portfolio of global constituents has an average credit rating of A+.

ESG isn’t just a ‘nice to have’

As sustainability increasingly becomes a part of our everyday lives, I think it’s important to understand how it impacts our clients’ lives too.

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