Elena K. Johansson

Articles by Elena K. Johansson

  • People Moves: New York State Common Retirement Fund, 2° Investing Initiative, MSCI and ClimateWise

    27 July 2018

    Anastasia Titarchuk has been announced as interim CIO of the New York State Common Retirement Fund, replacing Vicki Fuller who will retire next week after six years of service.

  • PGGM takes 20% stake in Suez Water Resources

    26 July 2018

    Dutch asset manager PGGM has agreed to buy a 20% stake in Suez Water Resources, via its infrastructure fund.

  • PRI explores supporting ESG pension fund pooling

    25 July 2018

    The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is considering ways to support pension fund signatories in pooling their demand for environmental, social, governance (ESG) services from investment consultants.

  • Impax Launches Pax Global Opportunities Fund

    20 July 2018

    Impax Asset Management has launched its first fund since its acquisition of Pax World Management at the beginning of this year.

  • 90% of Green Finance Summit participants vote for mandatory TCFD

    19 July 2018

    There was 90% support for making the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) mandatory within five years, according to a poll of the audience at the Green Finance Summit in London.

  • New ESG reporting platform aims to generate data insights

    17 July 2018

    IHS Markit plans to launch an ESG reporting platform next week, which will be developed to include data mining services, to improve the transparency and accessibility of the data for investors and other users.

  • Green finance qualification for bankers planned

    16 July 2018

    The Chartered Banker Institute is to launch a new green finance qualification for bankers in the UK and abroad.

  • Steering group for Green Finance Institute announced

    16 July 2018

    A steering group has been assembled to guide the launch of the UK's Green Finance Institute.

  • People Moves: Signal Capital, LGIMA, NordIX and Smart Pension

    13 July 2018

    Sarbjit Nahal has joined private asset management firm Signal Capital as a partner and will lead its efforts to integrate themes into the investment decision process for both existing funds and future development plans.

  • Rick Stathers joins Aviva Investors' growing ESG team

    12 July 2018

    Rick Stathers has been appointed as senior ESG analyst, and Sora Utzinger as ESG analyst by Aviva Investors. Both were previously at CDP.