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In August 2020, the Financial Times reported that investors injected record sums into sustainable investment funds, largely based on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) principles, during the Covid-19 pandemic, with net inflows of US$71.1 billion globally between April and June 2020. This raised assets under management in such products to a new high of over US$1 trillion, FT wrote, citing information from data provider Morningstar.
Investors favouring businesses with strong ESG practices have been driving the growth of ESG funds in recent years as they are regarded as being more resilient and sustainable in the long term. But it was the unprecedented disruption brought by the Covid-19 outbreak that sped up the segment’s growth like never before, as investors looked for sustainable business models that can better withstand market shocks.
Inside Polymetal’s drive to increase diversity and set the standard in ESG reportingJan 15, 2021
Maria Lodkina leads the charge to transform how her company and the wider Russian mining industry think about gender diversity and report on ESG factors
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The mining sector has traditionally been male-dominated in western markets, and perhaps even more so in Russia. Maria Lodkina, a young audit manager at accounting firm EY, didn’t think about that too much in November 2013 when she decided the time had come to turn the corner in her career and responded to an interview invitation from the gold-mining company Polymetal International in her native St Petersburg, Russia.