Investors

$1bn foundation has a $100m target allocation to social impact investing and hopes its new director ‘will increase Surdna’s finance and investment capacity’.

The Canadian investor made its first full acquisition to position itself for sustainable long-term growth.

The Asset Owner Diversity Working Group unveiled a new initiative seeking to standardise diversity metrics that pension funds collect from fund managers.

The need to address climate change is creating an opportunity for investors to prepare their portfolios for the future.

Document helps investors gauge ESG maturity across 21 different areas of activity and provides 'a rubric against which they can assess and benchmark a manager'.

Faced with a paucity of scalable impact opportunities, investors like Hesta, Glenmede and PGGM are working out their own way of achieving impact goals, according to research from placement agent Campbell Lutyens.

UK pension partnership selected managers who ‘showed awareness’ of portfolio companies’ alignment to the Paris Agreement

LGPS Central, the £45bn partnership for eight UK public pension funds, is growing its responsible investment team from four to six and planning a ‘range of fund launches for this financial year across numerous asset classes’.

The proposed amendment would see the public pension scheme ‘consider ESG factors’ in investments insofar as ESG affects risk and returns.

The UK-based investment heavyweight sees carbon capture as the best way to decarbonise industrial companies.