ETF issuers fail in stewardship practices
ETF providers continue to overlook stewardship responsibilities with proxy voting “muddled and concentrated”, new research reveals.
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.
Multi-manager pioneer, Mediolanum, has marked its 25th anniversary and news that its EMEA fund assets delegated to third-party managers have reached EUR2.19 trillion with data from the 2023 Allfunds Data Analytics (ADA) new report which highlights the continued growth of sub-advised funds in the funds industry.

A new study from Scientific Beta, entitled “Sustainability Alpha in the Real World: Evidence from Exchange-Traded Funds”, assesses the performance of sustainable investing from a value-weighted portfolio of ETFs that follow systematic ESG investing strategies in the US equity market.
According to a new report on company engagement commissioned by the First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute, relevance to the company, face-to-face meetings, and a strong shareholder consensus are among the most important elements.

Companies and their investors face a new disclosure regime to support global efforts to protect nature and biodiversity.