Research
Research Grant Contest Announced for Studying ESG Investing
Principles for Responsible Investment wants to find out how decarbonizing and other similar goals are working out in the Global South.
Tag: Principles for Responsible Investment
New Definitions Proposed for Responsible Investing
CFA Institute-led group seeks to provide verbiage for investors that promotes unifying around common, accurate and consistent definitions for responsible investment practices.
Newsmakers
Institutional Investors Launch ‘ESG Book’ to Standardize Sustainable Data
Their goal is to make sustainability data more widely available and comparable.
Asset Management Culture
Russell Investments Commits to Carbon-Neutral Portfolios by 2050
Outsourced CIO provider with $326.9 billion in AUM joins Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative.
Asset Management Culture
World’s Top Carbon Offenders Need to Step Up, Says Investor Group
Investors managing more than $54 trillion says firms require clear short- and medium-term targets and related capital expenditures.
Alternatives
Principles for Responsible Investment Calls for Reversal of Anti-ESG Trump Policies
CEO of UN-backed group says Biden administration has opportunity to ‘make American finance great again.’
Asset Management Culture
Investor-Led Climate Action 100+ to Judge Companies on Sustainable Benchmark
The standard developed by the global alliance of allocators and EY Consulting will be released next year to assess which businesses are leading the transition to net-zero carbon.
PRI Laggards Could Be Out
Asset managers and owners will be given two years to show they are responsible investors before being delisted from the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment.
PRI Leader Calls on Institutional Investors to Take Climate Change Action
Fiona Reynolds warns that government action will occur if institutional investors don’t ramp up climate change investment initiatives.
Newsmakers
Hawaii ERS Strengthens ESG Goals by Joining UN-Backed Commission
Fund expected to boost impact allocations over the long term.