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June 2010
Deutsche Bank’s €5.5bn pension funds aim to raise ESG allocation
Banking giant wants to expand on current €100m ESG allocation
UK’s new NEST fund talking with global funds on responsible investment
New national scheme seeking input on integrating RI
UK green bonds proposal targets pension funds
Government commission sees major role for institutional investors in climate change financing
FTSE names Unilever best for UK carbon management
Index analysis puts consumer goods giant in pole position
ESG USA conference report: “To BP or not to BP?”
Responsible Investor held its second ESG USA conference in New York last week. Here are some of the highlights:
What have asset managers learnt from the BP disaster?
Few fund managers sold BP despite some of the warning signs.
Bloomberg chief outlines ESG data strategy
More detail on data giant’s ambititions as ESG market consolidates
$10trn investor group to act on big oil and insurance
Investors seeking information on boards’ competence in wake of Gulf spill
RI Briefing, June 24: Calvert, Church of England, World Bank, Robeco, Russell
RI’s regular round-up of responsible investment stories.
Green and exclusion funds continue to lose cash in April
Screened funds stay positive for sales, however, but with a strong cash bias.
Canadian Social Investment Organization: conference highlights
The SIO, the Canadian Association for Socially Responsible Investment, held its conference in Toronto last week. Here are some of the highlights:
Canada’s public pension funds and the tar sands dilemma
Funds between a rock and hard place on Alberta projects
US pharma groups rise in 2010 Access to Medicine Index rankings
First ATM ranking for generic drug companies
RI briefing: P8, BP, new Europe ESG
RI’s regular round-up of responsible investment stories.
C.A. Cheuvreux wins best sustainability research gong at 2010 Thomson Reuters Extel awards
Soc Gen in second and UBS team takes third spot.
Merrill Lynch resurrects SRI broker research team with major hires
Former co-heads of Soc Gen sustainability research team to spearhead US bank’s ESG research.
Ontario legislature report calls for Toronto-listed firms to face more ESG disclosure
Exchange is major listing venue for mining and hydrocarbon companies.
France’s FRR reaches 85% integration for ESG research on investment
Assets run via an SRI process reach 13% as fund recovers on performance.
Private equity ‘barbarians at the gate’ of ESG: conference report
Industry seeks to move on from stereotype to ESG credentials.
How the environment is the cement holding the UK coalition together
Has the political debate in the UK really shifted from whether to how to achieve a sustainable economy, asks Penny Shepherd
RI Briefing, June 14, CalSTRS, Vigeo, CPPIB & OTPP, SAM, Global Environment Fund
RI’s regular round-up of the most important responsible investment news
Exclusion doesn’t equal underperformance
The KLP fund shows good performance of indexed responsible investments
UK parliamentary motion says BP disaster shows need for better pension fund ESG reporting
Early Day Motion calls on government to improve environmental risk assessment in investment.
How should investors respond to the BP Deepwater disaster?
Demand a full, long-term environmental clean-up, board accountability and management explanation, say Mark Tulay and Stephen Viederman
RI Briefing, June 9: Nordea, HESTA, NAPF, Network for Sustainable Financial Markets
RI’s regular round-up of the most important responsible investment news
Institutional investors consider tar sands litigation
IIGCC says potential for future legal proceedings are being looked at by signatories.
Drilling down on ESG risks in the mining sector
Investors need to be aware of the multiple sustainable initiatives and how they work.
PGGM backs Standard Life for sustainable real estate
Dutch pension giant in sustainable property move
EU critical of European funds’ low UNPRI membership
Less than a third of big European funds have signed up
Norway responds to Global Fund ethics criticism
Responsible investing evolves at ethics-driven giant
Asset management grandee slams funds industry, says giant asset owners should take back control
10-point manifesto says long-term economic growth and financial markets stability needs to be reasserted.
RI People Moves, June 4: GAM, Oekom, GO, Robeco
Recent responsible investment hires
RI Briefing, June 3: Hermes, UNEP FI, Ethos, Church Commissioners
RI’s regular round-up of the most important responsible investment news
European Commission mulls compulsory voting disclosure
EU puts forward raft of governance proposals in Green Paper
Norway’s KLP excludes two over Western Sahara minerals
Phosphate imports targeted by €32.5bn insurer
ATP chief to chair €5trn investor climate change group
Climate investing pioneer Sørensen to head IIGCC
NBIM, APG call for “concrete action” on child labour in cocoa industry
Cocoa industry meeting fails to meet expectations, say funds
Former Innovest research MD joins ESG emerging markets research firm
Research advisor takes up business development position at Solaron.
Powerful Japanese trades union body prepares major ESG recommendation for its pension funds
Union confederation says ESG is a way of ‘regaining trust’ in investment.