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Investors are concentrating share control, finds MSCI

EU becomes largest sustainable bond issuer

The EU has become the largest sustainable bond issuer in the world, with total issuance by the bloc surpassing €119 billion ($141 billion) in less than two years.

Foresight acquires Australian renewables infrastructure firm

Foresight Group has acquired Australia-based asset manager Infrastructure Capital Group for £79.6 million ($94.4 million).

WTW acquires Butterwire to boost climate risk analytics

Insurers need more "non-standard" data on climate change, BoE warns

Insurers will need "a lot of non-standard information" about their supply chains and customers to assess how climate change could hit their businesses...

Low-support ESG shareholder resolutions jump as proposals rise

The proportion of US environmental and social shareholder resolutions which achieved only low-level investor support has surged in 2022.

Pension funds have 'unique' relationship with deforestation

A guide on how pension funds can tackle deforestation, inspired by their association with asset managers, has been launched by Global Canopy, Make My Money Matter and SYSTEMIQ.

$3trn sustainable bond issuance milestone crossed

Despite a weaker than expected start to 2022, sustainable bond issuance continues to break new ground as it reaches a landmark $3 trillion total. Ahren Lester reports

ESG ratings 'struggling' to meet EU taxonomy social safeguards

New criteria for assessing non-compliance with minimum social safeguards in the EU's taxonomy regulation has been proposed, with ESG rating agencies having been identified as struggling to make the assessments.

Microfinance 'causes some hardship but is positive overall'

Although "microfinance is making some lives worse...the overall picture is positive", and most customers' lives have improved, a think-tank argued.