News category: ESG

U.K. Pensions Talk ESG Integration, Evaluation And Tackling Data: Notes And Event Replay

Sep 22, 2021

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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Church Commissioners’ Ground-Up ESG Approach Prioritizes People, Planet

Sep 20, 2021

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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Wells Fargo AM Proposes Framework For Climate-Aware Asset Allocation

Jun 9, 2021

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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CME Group Expands Micro Contracts, Sees Retail Growth – Global EQD Notes And Replay

Jun 2, 2021

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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