GREENWASHING

Funds management

Stock weightings of ‘sustainable’ passive exchange traded funds are overwhelmingly driven by market capitalisation not climate scores, taking capital away from companies ...

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Funds management

Incorporating the gas sector into Asian taxonomies risks diluting standards and discourages new pools of green capital, according to the Institute for Energy Economics an...

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Funds management

Tools such as text mining of shareholder reports are used to determine if a firm is making unsubstantiated claims about its ethical and environmental practices. ...

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Features

Solving today’s sustainability challenges will be funded by debt, writes Chris Dastoor, meaning it is worth investors considering ESG in their fixed income allocations. ...

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Features

Funds are unlikely to be deliberately guilty of greenwashing but nevertheless, writes Laura Dew, they need to have transparent processes in place to prevent investors fee...

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Funds management

Investors and trustees need to ask fund managers for reporting metrics on specific environmental, social, and governance issues they claim they are solving, according to ...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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