Poll acknowledges ESG link to financial returns
Surge in demand for ESG products counterbalanced by investor concerns about lack of standardised definitions of ESG metrics
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Generali eyes Sycomore to expand sustainable expertise
Italian fund group hopes “strategic partnership” will bolster its environment, social and governance credentials
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MSCI integrates ESG into risk systems
Move comes after demand from investors to integrate sustainability data into the investment process
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Candriam bans ‘controversial’ stocks across all assets
Exclusion will include thermal coal, tobacco, chemical, biological and white phosphorus weapons.
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Investors offered tool to measure climate risk
Investors will be able to gauge climate risk in their portfolio if global temperatures continue to rise
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Most investors find sustainable investing challenging: survey
European and Asian investors find sustainable investing more challenging than their North American and Latin American peers
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Nordic green bond issuance bucks global trend
The Nasdaq’s Sustainable Green Bond Market has listed it’s 100th sustainable bond three years after launching the market in Stockholm
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Belgian selectors undeterred by EM debt sell-off
Emerging market debt sentiment has suffered recently due to a few problem countries but opportunities still seen
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Should impact investors aim for market returns?
Fund houses are increasingly launching impact products to rival mainstream alternatives
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EU accused of sidelining social issues in ESG plan
European Commission proposals have ‘worrying’ implications for suitability assessments
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European ESG flows exceed €32bn in first half of 2018
It is only the second time in the past five years have net inflows have exceeded €30bn in any six-month period.
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Report: time to rethink ESG index construction
Traditional index construction not effective because it makes it difficult for investors to assess source of outperformance