Managers of Wealth

Aberdeen Standard Investments - 2020 outlook

Aberdeen Standard Investments sees structural growth opportunities in Chinese equities and emerging market bonds in 2020.

Understanding climate risk - McKinsey Global Institute

How could Earth’s changing climate impact socioeconomic systems across the world in the next three decades? A yearlong, cross-disciplinary research effort at McKinsey & Company provides some answers.

Mastercard and Partners Launch Priceless Planet Coalition to Act on Climate Change

Invites consumers and companies to join in to plant 100 million trees in five years

Mark Carney handed COP26 climate finance role

His key focus will be mobilising ambitious action from across the financial system needed to help achieve the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement.

EU Commission and Parliament commit to Green Deal Investment Plan

The Commission will closely monitor and evaluate the progress on this transition path.

Investor demand for ESG to grow through 2020, outlines Cerulli

At present in the equity space, the strategies available to investors range from broad ESG funds with exclusion policies to thematic funds, impact investing products, and strategies targeting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals."

The Cannabis Industry's Dirty Energy Secret By James Burgess, Oilprice.com

In fact, the growing of pot is so power-intensive that its ecological footprint is quickly becoming an environmental nightmare.

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.

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