A new survey conducted by the independent global investment consultancy, bfinance, on the topic of endowment and foundation investment has revealed a challenging investment climate, asset allocation intentions, and the importance of ESG. The Endowment & Foundation survey, dated November 2023, features data from 61 asset owners from 16 countries.
The short-term interests of asset managers may be trumping the long-term interests of their institutional investor clients when it comes to stewardship, which has lead UK pension funds to call for urgent action.
More than nine in 10 investors (94 per cent) believe corporate reporting on sustainability performance contains unsupported claims, according to PwC’s 2023 Global Investor Survey, launched today.
Bucking the global trend away from impact startups, French business school EDHEC has partnered with private equity firm Ring Capital to drive capital towards entrepreneurial projects that drive social and environmental change.
ETF providers continue to overlook stewardship responsibilities with proxy voting “muddled and concentrated”, new research reveals.
CFA Institute, the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA), and Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) have issued a new resource that aims to bring greater understanding and consistency to terminology used in responsible investment, specifically:
PwC Luxembourg’s Frederic Vonner writes that the fight against climate change is a generational undertaking which requires global cooperation and the mobilisation of capital on a scale never before seen.
EDHEC Business School and Ring Capital have announced the creation of GENERATIONS Powered by EDHEC, an impact seed fund for socially- and environmentally-responsible startups.
US institutional investors are increasingly looking to private assets opportunities to invest sustainably, according to global asset manager Schroders, which today released the US findings of its Institutional Investor Study.
Climate change could wipe out the value of 50 per cent of the value of some institutional investors’ infrastructure portfolios before 2050, yet these risks are neither fully understood nor properly priced in, according to the EDHEC Infrastructure and Private Assets Institute.
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