Category: Impact Investing
This Summer, U.S. Citi Retail Bank consumers will have increased access to even more affordable financial services Citi recently announced plans to eliminate overdraft fees, returned item fees, and overdraft...
Groups join forces to launch Well-Being Event Series to highlight the rising importance of health and humanity in improving ESG performance and in reimagining the future of corporate culture. The...
Project Canary, the Denver-based climate tech and environmental assessment company raised $111 million in Series B funding, the company announced today. The data analytics company plans to scale its core solutions and expand...
An active proxy voting season for U.S. public companies is expected this year, according to global Fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc.. With the majority of corporations holding annual meetings between...
Indeed, the world’s number one job site, today announced it is investing $10 million to launch “Essentials to Work,” a multi-prong investment to help struggling job seekers in the U.S....
– Announced ‘2022 Shareholder Value Maximization Policy’ based on Total Shareholder Return (TSR), seeking balance between share price performance and shareholder return via growth. – To invest KRW 3-4 trillion...
Sun Capital Partners, Inc. (“Sun Capital”), a leading private investment firm focused on defensible businesses in growing markets with tangible performance improvement opportunities, today announced that it has become a...
Slate Asset Management (“Slate” or “the firm”), a global alternative investment platform targeting real assets, announced today that it has launched an impact investment strategy focused on infrastructure and appointed...
Midea Group Co., Ltd. completed USD 450 million 5-year unsecured green bonds, issued at T+98 base points, setting a record of the lowest issuance margin for international U.S. dollar bonds with the...
(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fidelity Investments® today announced the launch of four new Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) funds — Fidelity Sustainable International Equity Fund (FSYRX), Fidelity Sustainable Emerging Markets Equity Fund (FSYJX), Fidelity...
BlackRock has launched a five sustainable iShares index mutual funds for the UK wealth market. They look to address the gap in the UK wealth market for strategies that help...
Last week, Tesla, a company with a market capitalization of more than $1 trillion, announced “breakthrough” 2021 profits of $5.5 billion. But there is trouble in the company’s supply chain. The...
Goldman Sachs is getting green as sustainable equity strategies attract record investor capital. The asset management arm of Wall Street’s premier investment bank on Thursday announced the launch of the...
A group of European development banks plan to double its funding for global efforts to stop plastic waste from polluting the world’s oceans to 4 billion euros ($4.6 billion). The...
– Moss Landing, CA. startup Verdagy brings scalability and technological innovation to the green hydrogen-electrolysis market, which is expected to break $53 billion by 2030 – Verdagy combines their scalability...
Milestone Environmental Services, LLC (“Milestone”) and CommunityBank of Texas, N.A. are pleased to announce a $45 million Sustainability-Linked Loan (“SLL”) arranged for Milestone through CommunityBank of Texas, N.A. with participation...
Invesco has unveiled a new climate-friendly bond fund that will invest for income and growth while supporting the transition to a low-carbon global economy, in the group’s first launch since...
Assets in European funds marketed as sustainable have hit 4 trillion euros — almost 40% of all assets managed in European Union-domiciled funds — Morningstar said on Monday in the...
Global private capital investment firm The Carlyle Group announced a series of sustainable investment goals, including a commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its investments by...
HSBC to invest USD100m to accelerate green technologies earmarked by Breakthrough Energy Catalyst Catalyst supports decarbonisation of high-carbon sectors via four climate critical technologies – direct air capture, clean hydrogen,...
Sustainable investing-focused group the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) announced the publication of the first proposed guidance for private equity investors to align portfolios with net zero goals....
BlackRock outlined new tools and investment strategies it will create to help clients navigate the net-zero transition in a client letter Thursday obtained by Pensions & Investments. The letter was sent to...
Private equity investor Lightsmith Group announced that it has raised commitments of $186 million for the final closing of the Lightsmith Climate Resilience fund, investing in growth-stage technology companies that...
Investors have found it easier to focus on the ‘E’ and ‘G’ of ESG, but social responsibility is becoming an easier concept to quantify and act upon within portfolios As...
Enthusiasm for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) funds is palpable. So are demands that exchange traded funds in this arena provide legitimate ESG exposure in simple form without greenwashing. The American...
Engine No. 1, an investment firm that drives performance by tying companies’ social and environmental actions to economic outcomes, today announced the launch of its first thematic ETF, the Engine No....
Wealthy increasingly looking beyond wind, solar and EVs Energy storage technologies among areas drawing interest High net-worth clients at Barclays Plc are being steered toward sustainable investment products that tap into a...
iM Global Partner (iMGP) and Richard Bernstein Advisors (RBA), a renowned asset allocation specialist and among the largest ETF strategists in the US, announce today the launch of the iMGP...
Euroclear, one of the world’s biggest settlement systems for stock and bond trades, has bought a big stake in fintech Greenomy to tap into growing demand for services that help...
Michelle Dunstan, Chief Responsibility Officer; Senior Investment Advisor—Global ESG Improvers Strategy Jennifer DeLong, Managing Director, Head—Defined Contribution; President—AllianceBernstein Trust Company “In mid-October, the US Department of Labor (DOL) proposed a...
PepsiCo Beverages North America (PBNA) A $35 million investment with Closed Loop Partners that will create the “Closed Loop Local Recycling Fund,” Closed Loop Local Recycling Fund,” is an innovative circular economy...
Blackstone Launches Sustainable Resources Credit Platform
Wealthsimple North American Green Bond Index ETF allows investors to benefit from growth in the green bond market and align investing with their values Mackenzie Investments (“Mackenzie”) today announced the listing...
CQS is ‘investigating’ a sustainable CLO for European market CLO yields among highest in alternative credit: Hintze By Tatiana Darie and Nishant Kumar Michael Hintze’s hedge fund is mulling a...
Sustainable assets at BlackRock more than doubled in 2021 as the fund manager’s total AUM broke through the $10 trillion barrier.
Companies whose business activities are centered on ESG principles are likely to attract loyal clients, employees, and financial backers.
Vanguard recently filed an initial registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to introduce Vanguard Baillie Gifford Global Positive Impact Stock Fund, which is designed to meet the...
Investors have been finding it increasingly difficult to find assets that achieve their required return and meet their ESG needs.
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today published guidance for investment funds on their disclosure practices that relate to environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations, particularly funds whose investment objectives reference ESG factors...
ESG investing has come a long way over the past few decades. In the early stages, it was largely an exercise in exclusion, as investors constructed portfolios that avoided industries like...
Preqin has estimated that as much as $3.1 trillion of private capital assets under management could have an ESG focus.
DUBLIN, November 11, 2021–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Allegion plc (NYSE: ALLE), a leading global provider of security products and solutions, today launched a new section of its website dedicated to its Environmental, Social and...
J.P. Morgan’s global head of trade, says that ESG considerations can help transform treasury and liquidity management.
Retirement plan sponsors to account for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) is garnering support from the financial services industry
Environmental, social, and governance investing poses little cost to investors, according to a study from Arizona State University.
Paul Tudor Jones, interviews Ray Dalio, Founder of Bridgewater Associates at Greenwich Economic Forum (Greenwich, CT)
David Rubenstein, Co-Founder of Carlyle Group, discuss ESG investing with Chuck Davis, CEO of Stone Point Capital at Greenwich Economic Forum
Billy Nauman, Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss, Megan Starr and other thought leaders discuss ESG investing at Greenwich Economic Forum
Gillian Tett interviews Mohamed El-Erian, Senior Advisor at Gramercy Funds Management on capital markets at Greenwich Economic Forum.
Gillian Tett interviews Nassim Taleb, Scientific Advisor for Universa Investments on capital markets at Greenwich Economic Forum
Hannah Kuchler, Alex Denner, and other thought leaders discuss Healthcare Innovation at Greenwich Economic Forum (Greenwich, CT)
Steve Case, former CEO of AOL, discusses impact investing with Matt Bird at Greenwich Economic Forum (Greenwich, CT)
Chuck Davis, CEO of Stone Point Capital discusses impact investing with Matt Bird at Greenwich Economic Forum (Greenwich, CT)
Jim Lockhart, Senior Fellow at Bipartisan Policy Center on alternative and impact investing at Greenwich Economic Forum (Greenwich, CT)
Jackie Vanderbrug, Head of Impact Investing for Bank of America on capital market, alternative and impact investing with Matt Bird at Greenwich Economic Forum (Greenwich, CT) (ESG News) – When Millennials buy Fair Trade...
Mohamed El-Erian, Senior Advisor at Gramercy Funds Management on Capital Markets, Alternative and Impact investing with Matt Bird at Greenwich Economic Forum (Greenwich, CT) (ESG News) – Economic scholar Mohamed El-Erian says we are...
Shopper survey shows concern for environment and sustainability drive consumer purchase decisions (PRNewswire) — Acosta, a global integrated sales and marketing services provider in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, today...
Investors are increasingly taking Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations into their analysis when evaluating the merit of potential investments as well as for reporting purposes once an investment has...
(ESG News) – When we think about the word “sustainability” in America, Megan Starr says many of us think about people wearing Birkenstocks dancing around a campfire. But Starr, the...
Sifted has put together a comprehensive guide to Cop26 for startups, with explainers, news stories, and advice columns on how tech can help tackle climate change. (Sifted EU) – With Cop26, the...
(BusinessWire) – Schwab Asset Management, the asset management arm of The Charles Schwab Corporation, today announced it is launching the Schwab Ariel ESG ETF (SAEF), an active, semi-transparent (also known...
(PRNewswire) — Neuberger Berman, a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager today announced that the firm joined the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative, which has the goal of achieving net zero emissions...
(Environment & Energy Leader) – On Wednesday, sustainable investment organization Builders Private Capital launched a $300 million clean energy investment platform. Builders Private Capital is the direct investment arm of...
AIMCo Realty Investors LP (“AIMCo Realty”) announce its Green Financing Framework (the “Framework”) in support of its commitment to environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) and sustainability principles. “The Green Financing...
(UK Today News) – Heavyweight investors are placing greater emphasis on environmental, social and governance factors than they were 12 months ago — a sign that pension funds and other...
79% of investors remained focused on sustainable investing during the COVID-19 pandemic 99% of Millennials were interested in sustainable investing, an all-time high (BUSINESS WIRE)–Four in five U.S. individual investors...
A host of major Australian corporates have converted their borrowing facilities into sustainability linked loans (SLLs) in the past six months in a sign of exponential growth in green financing....
(Investors Business Daily) – For investors focused on environmental, social and governance issues, software giant Microsoft(MSFT) should be on their radar screens. Microsoft stock has performed well as the company devotes...
(CNBC) – Financial bubbles will form as investors scramble to make deals in the sustainability space, according to Tim Adams, the president and CEO of the Institute of International Finance....
(Bloomberg) – In the two years he spent running “sustainable investing” at BlackRock, the largest money manager in the world, Tariq Fancy was an evangelist for the idea that capitalism...
(Private Equity News) – The group, collectively representing more than $4tn in assets under management, has agreed on what it expects will become the first standardised set of ESG reporting...
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