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Joe Marsh
Why Sweden’s Alecta believes bondholders can effect change
The $107bn pension fund is working to influence debt issuers and to assess better the impact of green and sustainable bonds.
Real estate: CRREM cements status as transition risk standard setter
Another influential property association is set to license the Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor (CRREM) tool, underlining the latter’s status as the key climate risk measurement standard for built assets.
Q&A: Allianz’s UK CIO on cutting real estate emissions
The investment chief of the German group’s British insurance arm outlines its strategy for decarbonising property assets, including by addressing tenant-generated emissions, in the second article in a Capital Monitor series on this topic.
Real estate: Investors tackle lack of carbon emission data
Property arguably receives less focus than it should as, by some measures, the world’s most-polluting sector. In the first in a series on how big investors are approaching the sector, Capital Monitor looks at the challenges involved and how the landscape is evolving.
Exclusive: Stuart Kirk aired his climate risk views before Cop26
HSBC Global Asset Management may have known Stuart Kirk’s views on climate risk long before his infamous speech in May.
ESG: How sovereign wealth funds are sharpening their focus
With state funds under pressure to put their $11.3trn of assets to good use, there is evidence they are upping their ESG game.
HSBC ‘climategate’ set to sharpen investor due diligence
Asset owners have been sharply ramping up their ESG-related scrutiny of fund managers in the past year. Controversial comments made last week by HSBC Global Asset Management’s now-suspended head of responsible investment are expected to accelerate that trend.
ESG-linked pay: Investors push for more robust targets
Shareholders increasingly expect executive pay to be linked to ESG targets and are more closely scrutinising the metrics used. Climate- and diversity-related metrics are seen to make sense; third-party ratings less so.
How investors are stepping up scrutiny of climate plans
Companies can expect to face far greater shareholder pushback on their emissions-cutting proposals during this year’s AGM season.
Allianz’s ESG chair outlines his climate policy wish list
Günther Thallinger, the €2.25trn German insurer’s group ESG board chair, calls on investors to work together and explains why he wants to see an international carbon price, standardised reporting and, above all, an end to fossil fuel subsidies – especially in light of the war in Ukraine.