All posts tagged "ASSET OWNERS"

• Industry

  Dropping Asset Managers Without Net-Zero Targets a “Last Resort” – Nordea

  Targets must be made by 2024 as part of €67 billion pension provider’s 2025 climate targets.

• Commentary

  European Leveraged Loans Embrace ESG Margin Ratchets

  Shweta Rao, Head of EMEA Covenants at Reorg, offers an overview of ESG margin ratchet provisions, emerging trends, and areas for future development.

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  Asia-Pacific

  China’s Long March to Net Zero

  Corporates are a few steps behind on ESG disclosures, but momentum is building under pressure from regulators and investors.

• Industry

  WTW Seeks to Build Low-Carbon Transition Accreditation Standard

  Most current business models do not reflect scale of change required.

• Industry

  NGOs Call for More Action Against Coal as Allianz Updates Policy

  Coal policies of UK institutions, PPCA members criticised by Reclaim Finance. 

• Asia-Pacific

  Malaysia Finalises Climate-Focused Taxonomy

  New principle-based guidance for financial institutions introduces progressive system of transition categories, incorporates broader environmental outcomes. 

• Commentary

  ICYMI, The Race to Zero Just got Harder

  Increasingly, responses to the climate crisis appear to be informed by science.

• Europe

  Holistic ESG Strategies Raise Resilience

  Knowledge on social factors and integration approaches lags climate factors, report finds.

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  Features

  The ESG Interview: Holding Auditors to Account

  Tim Bush, Head of Governance and Financial Analysis at PIRC, explains why asset owners should scrutinise audit relationships more closely.

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  Features

  Plans to Unleash Sustainable Infrastructure Flows Accelerate

  An initiative is working to standardise the asset class with a labelling framework, blended finance options and public-private partnerships.