News category: ESG

The latest EQDerivatives virtual forum, in partnership with Federated Hermes, gathered together a panel of leading U.K. pension fund professionals to discuss the challenges they face when it comes to responsible investing. Harry Ashman, environmental strategy lead at Church Commissioners for England, Sarita Gosrani, ESG and responsible investment director at bfinance, and Helen Price, stewardship manager for Brunel Pension Partnership, discussed methods of integration, developments in the industry and challenges in manager evaluation as well as the tools and data sources they find most constructive in ESG implementation, in a conversation led by Federated Hermes’ Kate Hillyar. 

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The Church Commissioners, a GBP9.2 billion investment fund supporting the Church of England, is putting people and the planet front and center in its sustainable investing approach, looking at everything from how artificial intelligence will change companies’ responsibilities to employees to identifying direct investments in climate solutions. EQDerivatives’ Georgia Reynolds spoke with the Commissioners’ Bess Joffe on how she is taking socially responsible investing to the next level.

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Portfolio managers at Unigestion are considering buying E.U. carbon allowance futures and incorporating them into the strategic allocation as part of their cyclical commodity basket of risk premia.

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Munich Re Investment Partners, an ESG-driven quantitative investment management firm owned by Munich Re AG, is placing a large focus on ESG derivatives right now, since the former Allianz ESG head Steffen Hoerter joined the firm earlier this year.

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Richard Dudley, quantitative portfolio manager at RPMI Railpen, Maurits Van der Meer, portfolio manager at PGGM, and Otto van Hemert, director of core strategies at MAN AHL, discussed everything from developments in multi-asset investing to environmental, social and governance on Day 2 of the Gulf Quant Series on Monday. The panel was moderated by Eurex’s Mezhgan Qabool.

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Since the start of the year UBS officials have seen a “dramatic increase” in the number of requests related to emissions trading. This is thanks to an accelerating economic recovery which means a greater expectation for more carbon emission. EQDerivatives’ Georgia Reynolds reports on this growing trend and the investment opportunities provided by the emerging asset class.

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Kiran Aziz, senior responsible investment analyst at KLP and Kamil Zabielski, head of sustainable investment at Storebrand AM, discussed everything from company engagement to data quality in a conversation about the different paths to achieving an integrated ESG portfolio.

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Environmental, sustainable, and governance-focused investing has been on the radar for some time now, growing in popularity over the last few years. But the Wells Fargo Asset Management Multi-Asset solutions team is taking it a step further, proposing an integrated framework to incorporate climate awareness into the whole life cycle of their asset allocation process. 

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Arik Ben Dor, head of quantitative equity research at Barclays, discussed how the bank is isolating environmental, social and governance-focused premia from equities in a presentation at Global EQD day two.

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CME Group has been working on a slew of launches for different sectors of the derivatives market in the past year, Tim McCourt, global head of equity and alternative investments, told attendees at day two of Global EQD. McCourt discussed how the exchange has been building out everything from cryptocurrency and environmental, social and governance-focused products as well as helping investors get ready for changes to margin requirements by transitioning toward more on-exchange tools.

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