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Plus: food companies shift their thinking on systemic risks, AI’s environmental problem and new SEC climate disclosure rules
Savers are offered a growing range of sustainable funds, but the choice is tricky
Even an expert struggled to make meaningful comparison between different funds
The Moral Money Forum examines important issues from the Environmental Social Governance debate and highlights the macro and philosophical questions involved, as well as identify and explore the solutions organisations are developing.
There is more agreement about the damage short-termism is doing than about how to defeat it. But the evidence is piling up on how long-term thinking need not sacrifice returns now
Campaigners urge asset managers to divest from fossil fuels to help fight climate change
Plus: Deloitte pushes companies further on racial equity, Kirin prepares to leave Myanmar over coup, a green bubble and more
Investment Association warns it will flag inadequate reporting on global warming to asset managers
‘Dark secret’ of the sustainable strategy is its unintentional support of intangible assets over humans, analyst argues
For all the claims made by corporations, sceptics still believe shareholders — not stakeholders — will win out
Limited enthusiasm on central bank’s governing council for green asset purchases
Investors have piled in to clean-energy shares, driving up valuations
Plus: A big week for sustainability-linked loans, a campaign to ‘whistleblow for the planet’ and cryptos’ ESG issues
Clients need more detailed discussions to explain index differences, executive says
Corporates pursuing a more sustainable approach should be rewarded by the equity market
Plus: watered down rollout of EU’s climate rule, the pandemic accelerates impact funds and speaking up for Japanese gender equality
Repurposing helped push European sustainable AUM to €1.1tn by the end of 2020
Rising number of companies include environmental or social metrics when setting executive pay
Plus: One-on-one with the UK National Grid’s chief, and a look at how the Capitol riot is changing US companies’ political spending
Launch comes as hedge funds increasingly see moneymaking opportunity in green investing
Plus: a new ESG acronym you need to know, a growing source of social data and cyber security climbs governance agenda
Venture to focus on ESG products as rise of passive investing drives indexing boom
London-based boutique Osmosis expands amid record demand for sustainable strategies
SWFs urged to be ‘more ambitious’ in the fight against global warming
Pandemic has increased focus on sustainable investing but surge has also brought a rise in greenwashing
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