ESG
BCI will target a cumulative $5 billion investment in sustainability bonds and reduce the carbon exposure in its global public equities portfolio by 30% by 2025, from a 2019 baseline.
Institutions should take a fresh look at financial and investment strategies to address challenges to their business models and maintain optimal asset allocations to meet a 7.5% historical return target, particularly in the face of a long-term era of muted returns, according to a recent study.
A university on the West Coast’s investment committee approved measures to halt new investments in fossil fuels and divest from its existing fossil fuel investments over the next several years earlier this month
Institutional investors around the world are increasingly evaluating managers’ ESG integration in terms of demonstrable outcomes and want firms to show results of their ESG-integrated strategies, according to a recent survey.
A university in New England has updated its investment policy to prohibit direct investments in coal and tar sands companies and launched an impact investment initiative.
A university based in New England is reinvesting a portion of its overall investment portfolio currently invested in carbon-intensive companies.
Regulators must standardize and make public company reporting on ESG disclosure accessible in order for institutional investors to properly manage and account for impact in their investment portfolios, according to a recent report.
A university in the Northeast will not directly invest in publicly traded oil and gas companies “for the foreseeable future” as part of adjustments to its investment policy approved last month.
River and Mercantile has hired a group head of ESG to implement and oversee the group’s ESG philosophy and core principles across its various investment divisions.
The deal closed on Feb. 1, a spokesman confirmed.
