RI’s regular round-up of sustainable finance news.
Eurosif, the European Sustainable Investment Forum, has highlighted the environmental, social and governance (ESG) challenges facing the global infrastructure industry. Its new Infrastructure Report was compiled with research by Dexia Asset Management with a steering committee comprising CDC Climat, CM-CIC Asset Management and Threadneedle. Eumedion, the Dutch corporate governance forum, has responded to the German […]
Call to pension investors to step up to “Big Society”
Tokio Marine Asset Management and Governance for Owners are to launch a Japan engagement fund with the potential to grow to JPY100bn ($1.2bn, €891m). The TMAM-GO Japan Engagement Fund (JEF) will invest in underachieving quoted companies – using a “Japanese way of engagement” to improve long-term performance. It will invest in 10-30 small to mid-cap […]
RFK Center hires ex-Milken director, Betsy Ziedman, to lead the push into finance.
40 investors sign up to new Principles for Investors in Inclusive Finance
New workplace DC fund gets Islamic option
Awards in honour of social investing pioneer
Investing in ‘bottom-of-the-pyramid’ could yield profits of hundreds of billions while focusing on social and environmental improvement.
€20bn railway fund the latest asset owner to sign up