How investors should engage with polluting SOEs
State-owned enterprises are responsible for more global emissions than their private sector counterparts, yet most investors shun the former. Those…
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ESG engagement: How investors get their way at the AGM
Investors are increasingly engaging with companies, particularly on sustainability issues, and they turn to shareholder resolutions when all else fails.…
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Fossil fuels: Funds slow to ditch passive assets
Asset managers’ exclusion policies on coal, oil and gas remain weak, new research indicates. As a result, actively managed funds…
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Clean tech: Are females excluded from green economy?
PE and VC investment in climate tehnology is accelerating, but the same growth rates are not being experienced by female-led…
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Deforestation: Have asset managers twigged link to net zero?
Capital Monitor assesses whether investors see the connection between climate change and deforestation. Sadly, it seems not. And here’s why.
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Russia exclusions raise tough questions for passive investing
Most major index providers and passive fund managers have removed Russia from their products following the invasion of Ukraine. Could…
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From EVs to rhinos: Let’s welcome finance innovation
Since the near collapse of the global banking system in the late 2000s, governments have sought to temper capitalism’s worst…
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Analysis: the SFDR funds exposed to gas and nuclear
The number of funds under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation with exposure to natural gas and nuclear investments has been…
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