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People moves 3 September: MSCI, Neuberger Berman, APG, Allianz GI, Carlyle Group and more

Vosloo joins Mayfair Capital

Green Bond Comment, August 2021: A new dawn for the beleaguered transition bond label?

Once seen as the next exciting frontier in sustainable fixed income, the take-up of transition bonds has so far underwhelmed the market. But could the beleaguered label stage a fight back, asks Ahren Lester

LGIM sells £40m assets in companies including AIG for climate inaction

Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) is divesting four holdings, worth £40 million ($56 million), for not engaging satisfactorily with it on climate issues, it has said

Food systems: Investment risk and opportunity, Part one

Moving to more sustainable food production is necessary to cut GHG emissions and biodiversity loss - but assessing risk and opportunity can be hard, Michael Hurley writes

Green bond comment, May 2021: Is it the time of consolidation rather than proliferation of bond labels?

There are early indications that the market is looking to consolidate existing sustainable bond labels rather than add further ones to the mix. Ahren Lester asks whether this is a worry for the future of the market

News round-up: BlackRock, Eurazeo, CBL, COP26 and Standard Chartered

UK urged to use diplomatic ties to deliver 'ambitious' COP26 climate pledges

EU taxonomy removes agriculture and offers concession to gas

'Post-growth' investing could succeed unsustainable ESG strategies - ShareAction report

'Sustainable' investment approaches are merely a "continuation of unsustainable investment" practices insofar as they are built on the economic imperative of growth at a cost to society, according to a report by ShareAction and a group of UK charitable investors.