ESG

XPS Pensions Group is the latest advisory services firm to sign up to the Net Zero Investment Consultants Initiative (NZICI). The NZICI set out a series of commitments for member firms, aimed...

The European Commission is proposing new regulation for ESG ratings and data providers, a move which have been welcomed by the fund management industry. These regulations are designed to address a lack...

Aegon UK has published its ‘climate roadmap’ setting out the company’s plans to reduce the carbon footprint of its investments.  This will start with its workplace default funds and include short-term emission...

Institutional Shareholder Services’s ESG arm has launched a new range of passive indices based around biodiversity.  These new products are likely to appeal to many institutional investors, including pension funds that increasingly...

Twenty five members of the Net Zero Asset Managers’ Initiative (NZAMI) are potentially misleading clients, according to a green think tank —by having more than $365bn (£295bn)  invested in 15 of the...

Hundreds of ETF funds have been downgraded from Article 9 to Article 8 after the EU introduced new rules on classifying sustainable investment funds. This reclassification followed the introduction of  'level 2’...

Aegon has revamped its fund range, to  improve the sustainability credentials of its master trust. While these changes do not affects it default fund — the LifePath Flexi —it will mean there...

The Principle of Responsible Investment (PRI) — a UN-backed body — has said that additional work needs to be done to understand the materiality of ESG factors when assessing credit risk. This...

DC pension providers are at the vanguard of economy-wide changes to help drive down greenhouse emissions to address the challenges of climate change. Understanding what changes individual providers have made to date...

Policy inaction on carbon emission pricing is delaying a market-led transition towards a net zero world, which could have far-reaching economic and geopolitical consequences. These were the stark conclusions of a new...