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Ex-NZAM members 'will face higher bar to prove engagement outcomes'

Asset managers will have to work harder to prove to asset owners their commitment to substantive engagement on issues including climate, following their departures from net zero initiatives, according to a UK pension fund.

UK Stewardship Code too open-ended to be useful, pension fund says

Changes to the UK's "gold-standard" Stewardship Code are set to make it too "open-ended" for Nest to ascertain whether fund managers are meeting the pension fund's expectations, it argued.

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Dealing with inconsistent ESG data

A consistent ESG investment approach is 'largely impossible' across asset classes with current data, The Future of ESG Data 2022 conference heard. Ahren Lester reports

UK pension fund launches climate aware emerging market equity strategy

UK Financial Reporting Council to set up climate lab

A working group to improve company reporting of information related to climate change is to be established by the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC).

Should the TCFD be mandatory? Not yet, say investors

A panel at Environmental Finance's Green Equities conference was asked whether reporting in line with the recommendations of the Task Force of Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) should be made mandatory.

Climate-related risk will dent oil company valuation by 2020, fund managers predict

About 90% of fund managers expect that the valuation of international oil companies (IOCs) will drop 'significantly' within two years because of energy transition risks such as new legislation, a survey of organisations with more than $13 trillion in combined assets has found.