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Since 2021, fund managers have embarked on a significant recruitment drive for ESG professionals in a hurry to build out their ESG teams on the back of increased demand from investors. However, things are beginning to change. Recruiters are seeing the scramble for ESG talent beginning to slow, citing a worsening economic landscape and anti-ESG … Read more

Evelyn Partners has appointed Katrina Brown as director of responsible investment, where she will aid in the company’s incorporation of ESG into its investing process. Brown has focused her work in consulting, most recently spending three years with Sustain Value, a sustainable management consulting firm, since 2020. She has also spent time as an investment … Read more

Hosting COP in the UAE is a contentious topic for some. There is criticism around conflict of interest given the importance of fossil fuels for the region. But the acceleration of the energy transition is not possible without the major fossil fuel players. COP president Sultan Al Jaber has highlighted that a phasedown of fossil … Read more

While significant progress has been made in addressing climate change and promoting sustainable finance, there remains an ambition gap between long-term sustainability goals and current actions, with COP28 presenting the opportunity to address this gap, according to Jane Goodland, group head of sustainability at the London Stock Exchange Group. See also: – Sector-by-sector implementation plans crucial … Read more

In line with UNGP guidelines, investors should be engaging all stakeholders effectively to ensure a just and rights-centred transition, according to Phil Bloomer, executive director at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, and COP28 next month is an opportunity for investors to support policies to achieve this. Here Bloomer answers ESG Clarity’s questions about … Read more

Anger over a lack of focus on the need to phase out fossil fuels dominated pre-COP28 climate talks in October, from both climate activists and the private sector, amid more concern about human rights abuses in host country the UAE. Companies including Nestle, Unilever, Mahindra Group and Volvo Cars are urging political leaders to agree … Read more

M&G has hired a chief sustainability officer to lead the asset manager’s sustainability strategy. Kathy Ryan will embed sustainability across the business and help to drive real-world positive change, with the asset manager acting as a responsible long-term investor. She joins from Irish Life Investment Management (ILIM) where she was head of responsible investment.  At … Read more

Bloomberg has partnered with Riskthinking.AI to launch the first physical risk indicators designed to account for every climate scenario endorsed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Combining data on more than one million physical assets with Riskthinking.AI’s dataset of global climate change projections and proprietary methodology, the indicators aim to provide Bloomberg users … Read more

In this series for ESG Clarity EU, Hargreaves Lansdown dives into ESG funds available in the UK and EU, analysing their investments, performance and ESG credentials. For this latest article, Dominic Rowles takes a look at the FSSA Asia Focus fund. Many Asian and emerging markets are home to young, increasingly wealthy populations and an expanding workforce that’s expected to … Read more

Evelyn Partners Sustainable MPS team has switched out its holding in Impax Environmental Markets Investment Trust in favour of a smaller position in its open-ended sister fund. In the latest rebalance, lead manager Genevra Banszky von Ambroz (pictured) said the £652m Impax Environmental Markets fund offers a similar underlying exposure without the discount to NAV … Read more