Fund managers talk to Nicholas Pratt about the dangers of ESG metrics that boil complex risks down to a single number.
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Fund managers talk to Nicholas Pratt about the dangers of ESG metrics that boil complex risks down to a single number.
The industry accepts the need for more rigour in ESG fund reporting, but the work will be pointless if investors don’t understand the end result. Nicholas Pratt reports.
Amid heightened concerns about greenwashing, the funds industry’s stance on climate investing has come under increasing scrutiny. Pete Carvill looks at two studies in particular and asks how the landscape has changed since they were published.
A new initiative from Denmark could pave the way for European pension funds to become more involved in forest management – But, as indigenous people understand better than anyone, this carries a duty of custodianship. David Whitehouse reports.
Green finance rules are driving huge changes in ETF indexing but have not disrupted index providers - firms that the FCA is now monitoring, writes Peter Taberner.
Last year’s AGM season was meant to see a leap forward in the spread of shareholder democracy – but instead it exposed “alarming” new obstacles for individual investors, says Arnaud Houdmont of Better Finance.
Global Diversified Growth funds were heavily searched by UK institutions last year and remain a top-three asset class in searches, Mithursha Kesavan finds.
Ireland is working to expand the talent pool available to the country’s €4 trillion funds industry, says Pat Lardner of Irish Funds.
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