GREENWASHING
Funds management
There are nine questions that fund managers need to ask themselves when launching a fund in order to prevent greenwashing, according to ASIC....
Funds management
Stock weightings of ‘sustainable’ passive exchange traded funds are overwhelmingly driven by market capitalisation not climate scores, taking capital away from companies ...
Funds management
Incorporating the gas sector into Asian taxonomies risks diluting standards and discourages new pools of green capital, according to the Institute for Energy Economics an...
Funds management
Tools such as text mining of shareholder reports are used to determine if a firm is making unsubstantiated claims about its ethical and environmental practices. ...
Features
Solving today’s sustainability challenges will be funded by debt, writes Chris Dastoor, meaning it is worth investors considering ESG in their fixed income allocations. ...
Features
Funds are unlikely to be deliberately guilty of greenwashing but nevertheless, writes Laura Dew, they need to have transparent processes in place to prevent investors fee...
Funds management
Investors and trustees need to ask fund managers for reporting metrics on specific environmental, social, and governance issues they claim they are solving, according to ...
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