The way companies treat their employees is the largest source of ‘responsible’ investment risk among certain UK pension schemes, according to a major trade body.
Columbia Threadneedle Investments, the global asset management arm of US-based Ameriprise Financial, has won an ESG mandate from insurance firm Zurich Germany.
BlueBay Asset Management is the second firm this week to launch an ESG fixed income product, following Deutsche Asset Management.
Deutsche Asset Management (Deutsche AM) has launched a fixed income ETF that will give investors exposure to the socially responsible European bond market.
Pimco, owned by the world’s fifth largest asset manager Allianz, has launched a fixed income platform for investors that want to “promote change in the world” through social impact themes.
You wouldn’t expect an oil company’s ESG rating to be higher than a green energy provider’s. Or would you? Fiona Rintoul finds the ESG ratings market that MSCI and Morningstar recently entered can be a bit topsy-turvy.
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