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  • ESG investing 'should not be product trend'

    06 April 2022

    The rise of ESG risks becoming a fashionable but fickle trend if fund managers fail to comprehensively account for sustainability, Saker Nusseibeh tells Michael Hurley

  • UK finance sector gets new advice on climate-related risks

    30 June 2020

  • Hermes, Federated and UBS launch SDG credit funds

    26 September 2019

    Hermes Investment Management, Federated Investors and UBS have launched a range of credit funds targeting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • European investors 'oversleep watershed moment formed by Shareholder Directive', finds survey

    13 February 2019

    European investors are poorly informed and unprepared for the "watershed moment" the new Shareholder Directive creates, a survey has found.

  • Federated Investors takes majority stake in Hermes

    03 July 2018

    Federated Investors, a US investment manager, has purchased a 60% stake in Hermes Investment Management from the BT Pension Scheme for a total consideration of £259.9 million ($341.5 million).

  • People moves: Carbon Tracker, Allianz, WWF, Sustineri, BMO

    01 December 2017

    Carbon Tracker Initiative has appointed Hermes Investment Management's chief executive Saker Nusseibeh as non-executive chairman.

  • Introducing the Principles for Positive Impact Finance

    19 April 2017

    The Principles have been designed to help meet the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. But how will they be implemented? Peter Cripps reports

  • Investors' fiduciary duty includes 'transition to low-carbon economy'

    26 January 2017

    Supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy is part of an investor's fiduciary duty, according to a new report that calls for 'more forceful' advocacy on climate change from financiers.

  • Quantitative easing has hurt ESG investing, says Hermes chief

    01 November 2016

    The unprecedented amount of quantitative easing (QE) that has followed the financial disaster of 2008 has had a direct impact on environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, said Saker Nusseibeh, CEO of Hermes Investment Management.

  • Low yields and high volatility deter ESG investors, finds survey

    19 September 2016

    Current conditions in the financial markets are deterring investors from making allocation decisions based on their beliefs about the importance of sustainability, according to a recent survey.