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1:29 PM FNArena's dedicated ESG Focus news section zooms in on matters Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) that are increasingly guiding investors preferences and decisions globally. For more news updates, past and future:  ESG Focus: Premium Hunters Eye Additionality Not all green investments are created equal and, as predators line up for the ESG ball, investors seeking a sustainability premium are sticking to the rule of additionality. -Expect an explosion in sustainable finance in 2021 -Beware working capital funding disguised as green investments -Who to trust? By Sarah Mills Foll...

The initial public offer (IPO) of Nanofilm Technologies on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) may represent the same inflection point that the listing of Xero Technologies did for the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The listing of Xero in late 2012 laid the foundation for the ASX to establish its brand as an ‘“Asia-Pacific Nasdaq”. It has positioned itself as a bourse able to support the finance needs of growth-stage technology enterprises. So will Nanofilm’s listing in October 2020 enable the SGX to burnish itself as a platform for technology enterprises? In 2020, Singapore saw the n...

By Susanna Rust2021-04-15T14:36:00+01:00 The way asset managers cast votes on climate-related issues should not be influenced by the status of company engagement “or other management considerations”, according to guidelines from the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA). In a new publication – billed as being about ‘Elevating Climate Diligence on Proxy Voting Approaches’ – the group of asset owners wrote that asset managers’ proxy voting policies and supporting documents should “include a commitment to Climate Votes being evaluated based on merit of the proposal�...

Scientific Beta has launched a series of pure climate impact consistent indices aimed at helping make investment decisions more consistent and maximise their impacts.

By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Colorado State University researchers are again predicting an above-average hurricane season for 2021, due in part to a weak El Niño and warmer than normal subtropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures. CSU researchers are forecasting 17 named storms, 8 hurricanes and 4 major hurricanes of category 3 or greater. Hurricane season starts […]