FTfm: Responsible Investing

Doing the right thing: pandemic provokes a new wave of funding for healthcare start-ups; ethical CSR focus triggers hostile investor activism, study finds

These articles conclude a three-part report published on consecutive Mondays

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Pandemic provokes new wave of funding for healthcare start-ups

Data suggest investors are regaining confidence in backing development of new treatments

Ethical CSR focus triggers hostile investor activism, study finds

Academics say hedge funds may see approach as a costly distraction — but attitudes are shifting

US investors demand data in fight against racial discrimination

Companies come under growing pressure to deliver information and concrete progress

Japanese boards slowly learn the language of ‘engagemento’

Steady reform of corporate governance hints at gradual unravelling of ‘value traps’

Investors line up for the post-pandemic green recovery

Financiers are looking to dovetail into policymakers’ ambitions to ‘build back better’

Crowdfunding picks up slack for green tech start-ups in Europe

Individual retail investors as well as asset managers seek environmentally friendly returns

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A billionaire’s path to arbitrating on ethical investments

Decades after family exited tobacco, business owner seeks creative response to pandemic

Proliferation of demands risks ‘sustainability reporting fatigue’

Corporate decision-making should integrate environmental and social costs to ensure value creation

Now is the time to emerge as a corporate ‘saint’ not ‘sinner’

Executives will be judged on whether they ‘do the right’ thing during pandemic

Fund managers struggle to compare ESG apples with oranges

Precise and validated sustainability ratings are essential to avoid ‘greenwash’

Impact investing in unflashy causes gains ground

Food security, education, infrastructure, sewerage attract new funds