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  • French regulator turns mystery shopper to check asset managers live up to sustainability promises

    23 January 2024

    France's financial markets regulator will conduct spot checks of asset managers to check whether their voting and engagement practices meet the standards claimed in their marketing.

  • China relaunches voluntary carbon market

    23 January 2024
  • Austria: Greenium justified as there is 'no free lunch' for investors

    23 January 2024

    Up to 60 people work on Austria's green bond reporting, Markus Stix tells Ahren Lester

  • Investors' scenario testing not recognising full climate risk, warns academic

    23 January 2024

    The climate scenarios currently used by investors are not fit for purpose and do not adequately assess the full extent of risks, an academic has warned.

  • Fund managers face SDR challenge to define 'sustainable', law firm says

    23 January 2024

    Fund managers looking to adhere to the UK's forthcoming fund labelling and disclosure regime are to face a significant "subjectivity-related challenge" in determining what qualifies as sustainable, according to law firm Pinsent Masons.

  • French regulator highlights lack of consistency and granularity in insurers' climate disclosures

    22 January 2024

    French life insurers' climate disclosures relating to their investment strategies are heterogeneous, incomplete and lack granularity, according to the French prudential regulator, Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR).

  • Rise of AI can benefit impact data, APG says

    22 January 2024

    The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify and organise data presents opportunities in areas including sustainability-related impacts, according to one of Europe's largest asset managers.

  • Key themes driving the ESG agenda in 2024

    22 January 2024

    Adaptation, transition, biodiversity and inequality are areas to watch this year, writes Mariella Rice-Jones

  • Vidia Equity acquires German solar installer

    22 January 2024
  • IFRS publishes resource for GRI and ISSB conformity

    22 January 2024