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The importance of embedding environment, social and governance (ESG) principles within sovereign investor strategies has been gaining traction rapidly over the past several years. While perspectives were polarised as recently as 2017, by 2020, Invesco s sovereign report shows a clear decarbonisation focus for investors through North Africa and Europe, with their counterparts in the Middle East and Asia also preoccupied with mitigating the effects of extreme weather on their portfolio.
Clearly, concerns about climate-based risks and environmental protection have emerged as an important issue for regional investors – a trend exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
When it comes to demand for ESG investing opportunities, the numbers speak for themselves: ESG assets have grown to more than $40 trillion – totalling approximately one third of investments globally. According to Morningstar, the number of US mutual funds that consider ESG principles to be relevant in investment an
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - ESG ratings have received a visit from the sheriff. France’s Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) and the Netherlands’ Autoriteit Financiele Markten (AFM) on Tuesday called for mandatory standards in the provision of products that purport to gauge companies’ environmental, social and governance performance. Their attention is overdue.
Sustainable investing is booming. The United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment now has more than 3,000 signatories representing over $100 trillion of assets under management. The weight of money has helped the iShares Global Clean Energy exchange-traded fund, which tracks choice green stocks like Denmark’s Orsted, more than double in price since January. With countries and companies alike increasingly taking emissions-reductions targets seri
Redwire Acquires LoadPath, a Leading Developer of Payload Adapters for the Space Industry
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Redwire, a new leader in mission critical space solutions and high reliability components for the next generation space economy, announced today that it has acquired LoadPath, a leading developer of payload adapters, deployable structures, and thermal products for the space industry. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. LoadPath brings market-leading capabilities to augment Redwire s space infrastructure portfolio and broaden our range of technology products and services to support our customers missions, said Peter Cannito, Chairman and CEO of Redwire. We are excited to work with Adam and Greg and the LoadPath team to leverage their impressive technology flight heritage and advance their capabilities as a part of Redwire.
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Institutional investors increasingly wonder how their investments can make a positive impact and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) moving away from seeing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors simply as risks. This shift, initially led by large investors in Europe and other high-income markets, has become more and more global. Still, a challenge remains: how to implement ESG and impact investing tools in the context of less developed capital markets?
One of the largest pension funds in Thailand, Government Pension Fund (GPF), was aware of this role when it announced, in 2018, its intention to be the leader in ESG investing and related initiatives in Thailand. Since then, GPF has pursued its mission through initiating and leading collaborative engagements with local institutional investors and with GPF’s external fund managers, both domestic and international ones. Throughout this time, it
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