Managers of Wealth

Falko Paetzold: «ESG is Too Complicated for Private Bankers»

That's often helpful in the area of sustainability, even more so earlier than it is today.

KBI Global Investors helps get trees planted in Ireland

The WEF was established by the Irish government in 2019 to boost forestation across the country to 18% of total land from 11%.

ESG considerations tilt financing landscape in 2020

Borrowers that banks are less willing to lend to for ESG reasons are facing pressure in capital markets

World’s largest asset manager BlackRock joins $41 trillion climate-change investing pact

With BlackRock on board, total assets under management represented by Climate Action 100+ now top $41 trillion.

The Global CIO Office releases its 2020 outlook today entitled “A World in Transition”.

The Global CIO team see ample opportunity to generate income streams of acceptable quality in global credit markets. Despite spreads being at their recent lows, they see scope for even lower spreads due to the weight of liquidity.

More and more homeowners are renovating existing homes to make them ‘net zero’ energy consumers. Here’s how.

Energy-conscious retrofits can dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of housing without the need to start from scratch.

Four ways to reduce the carbon in your food basket

How does the food we buy from the supermarket affect the planet? Experts from the University of Newcastle come up with four simple rules to help us reduce our carbon footprint during the next grocery run.

Northern Trust Asset Management Launches Sustainable Quantitative Solutions

Strategies Support Desire for Sustainability – Without Sacrificing Performance

Will our homes all be powered by renewable energy in 2030?

Early experiments with in-home battery technology have proven extremely successful.

Why younger Aussies are right to favour ESG

With ESG becoming more mainstream and Millennials having a greater say, the financial service providers believe superannuation funds, pension funds and institutional investors are likely to follow retail investors.

Private equity giants vow to show their ESG credentials in 2020

KKR and TPG to disclose their ‘impact’ investments as US politicians turn up heat

Adapt or Perish

Preparing for the Inescapable Effects of Climate Change

DBS adopts MSCI ESG ratings for its wealth management business

The adoption of the ratings comes amid mounting interest in ESG investing where ESG factors are taken into consideration when it comes to investment decision-making.

Ambiguous sustainable investing will land investors in the dock

Most of those called out can escape with a spot of bad PR and some pledges to clarify what's on offer.

Is it time to mandate on climate change reporting?

Investors are frustrated by the lack of transparency and inconsistent information around the financial impacts of climate change on businesses and the resilience of company strategies, both of which are critical inputs to investment valuations and decisio

8 ways Seychelles has been recognised for its dedication to the environment, Blue Economy

NA presents a roundup of eight ways Seychelles has earned accolades for its Blue Economy initiative.

7 countries that shook up the world in 2019

From post-apocalyptic red skies in Indonesia to vast swathes of the Amazon gone up in smoke, 2019 spelled doomsday for some countries while others worked to prevent the world from spiraling further towards climate catastrophe.

New Year's resolutions: saving and environment come out top

“The start of a New Year is a natural time to review personal finances and begin the year as you mean to go on.

Greta Thunberg: Attenborough inspired me to act on climate change

“She has achieved things that many of us who have been working on it for 20-odd years have failed to achieve and that is you have aroused the world.”

Top of the Agenda: Climate change

The most devastating impact of climate change and extreme weather is always going to be loss of human life, but its effect on natural resources, infrastructure, supply chains, and employee health can be dire too, with potential impact on the bottom line o

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