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Advisors Failing To Talk ESG With Clients
“There has been some progress among advisors with bringing up the subject,” says Anthony Eames, vice president and director of responsible investment strategy for Calvert, a firm that focuses on responsible investing. “But advisors need to be educated to the fact that their clients are interested in these issues.”
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Viewpoint: Venezuela’s likely default could teach you a lesson: Don’t invest in dictatorships
If the default occurs, they’ll only be getting what they deserve. And as an added bonus, the spectacle of a Venezuelan default — the first by a major country since Argentina’s in 2001 — would help convince investors across the world that it’s not good business to invest in state-run companies of repressive regimes.
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- Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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- ESG, impact investing, public policy
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Huge private sector investment puts Paris climate target in reach, says report
At least one trillion dollars are being invested globally in ways to reduce the threat of climate change, including renewable power, energy efficiency, and public transport around the world.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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Canada, Europe Lead List of Most Responsible Asset Allocators
The recently released Bretton Woods II Leaders list of the 25 “most responsible” asset allocators was culled from among hundreds of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and government pension funds (GPFs) representing more than $20 trillion in assets under management.
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- Investing
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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- ESG, impact investing
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Millennials Love ESG, Just Not As Much As Their Parents, Grandparents
In the AllianzGI ESG Clarity survey, investors aged 65 and older were more interested in environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) investing than younger generations.
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- Investing
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Deciphering Emerson’s Tears – Is it Time for Impact Investing to Lower its Expectations?
At SOCAP17, impact investing pioneer Jed Emerson gave a tearful speech from the main plenary stage, in which he called on the industry to remember the true purpose of capital, and not to let its efforts to build the market distract from its higher goals. We explore some potential implications of this emotional high point of the conference.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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SLI launches positive screening Global Equity Impact fund
Standard Life Investments has launched a Global Equity Impact fund, investing in companies which are making a positive contribution to society and/or the environment.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, SDGs
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Why is Asia lukewarm to sustainable investing?
Investors in Asia, a region made up of numerous emerging markets that have made economic growth a priority, typically take a shorter-term view on investments. Coupled with a lack of government initiatives to drive sustainable investing, Asian investors and their fund managers have lagged far behind their western counterparts in embracing “ESG investing” – the inclusion of companies’ environmental, social and governance performance as criteria in fund allocation decisions.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- ESG, impact investing
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