Managers of Wealth

New public-private partnership to promote innovative development finance

These funds will be used to unlock up to 1 billion francs in additional private capital towards the SDGs in developing countries.

Lombard Odier acquires stake in sustainable investment firm

The partnership will align the two companies more closely, allowing for greater collaboration and synergy in pursuit of the companies’ shared goal of understanding, advancing and investing in the global sustainability transition.

ESG Investments Poised to Reach $30 Trillion by 2030

Asset managers need to better plan and prepare for expected ESG funds growth, according to Broadridge research

From Pledges to Action: What’s Next for COP26 Corporate Commitments

Business can be a force for good, innovating and scaling solutions to climate change.

FCA Targets ESG Data Providers

The business plans also announced that the FCA would focus on addressing greenwashing concerns as a priority.

KKR announces formation of sustainability expert advisory council

Six-member independent council to bolster KKR’s ESG expertise and capabilities and advance the firm’s ESG strategy and practices

EU drafts plan to remove more carbon emissions from the air

The Commission will also propose in 2022 an EU system of certifying carbon removals

Integrating ESG and carbon metrics alongside active engagements

The 2021 United Nations’ COP26, took place early November.

Swiss Raise Pressure on «Greenwashers»

Pitching green, social, or good governance investments is big business in Switzerland.

AMAS and SSF publish Recommendations on Minimum Requirements and Transparency for Sustainable Investment Products

The recommendations are also designed to help at the point sale and ensure that financial advisors have access to all relevant information

Shining the light on the darker side of sustainable investments

While there was clearly a lot of discussions and agreement on where investment flows need to go over the two-week summit, what was not discussed, or at least not widely, was where some of that capital comes from or what happens to it when it gets there.

Swiss pension funds are investing more sustainably: Strong motives, but obstacles too

Credit Suisse publishes its 2021 Pension Fund Study

Investing for a carbon free world: Investors support an inclusive transition post COP26

71% of investors felt that richer countries should be helping poorer countries to transition to net zero.

New study by the University of Oxford and Lombard Odier examines the predictors of success in a greening world

The report, Predictors of Success in a Greening World, offers a global, 25-year-long perspective on countries’ standing in global trade in high-growth green industries, and the extent to which each country has adequately directed their Covid-19 reco

The Sustainability Standards Battle

Others took a different view. Perhaps predictably, the teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg described the conference categorically as “a failure.”

Reflections on COP26: a long path ahead

These developments represent the tip of the iceberg of the COP26 announcements, with more policy positions expected to be fleshed out in the coming year.

Switzerland, sustainable energy and the challenges of net zero

Switzerland is among the countries that had net-zero pledges in place before COP26 and which, in early 2021, published its roadmap to net zero.

Schroders and GIC bolster climate portfolio analysis

The Avoided Emissions framework aims to quantify the emissions saved through the substitution of high carbon activities with low carbon alternatives.

FC4S Welcomes Jersey to its Global Financial Network

The international Network of Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S) has welcomed Jersey, a forward-thinking international finance centre (IFC), to its global network.

ESG Investing: ‘A virtuous cycle of asset growth’

Academic research suggests this increases staff loyalty and improves the ability of companies to recruit employees.

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