At the previous investment committee meeting, the board voted to make the commitment, despite accusations the firm had misled the pension on diversity efforts.
State treasurer Riley Moore has written to six financial institutions to warn them: stop boycotting fossil fuel investments or you won't do business with us.
Investors’ views over the importance of DE&I issues and whether they ultimately affect fund commitments are as varied as the LP community itself.
Four charts show LPs’ ESG priorities and portfolio exclusions, from an LP survey by Coller Capital.
The UK’s Environment Agency Pension Fund is backing Lombard Odier’s climate debt fund as CIO Graham Cook says that transition financing 'is largely going to come from debt'.
Diversity has become a flashpoint for board members of many LPs, who believe they can steer managers into paying more than lip service to the topic.
GenZero, Temasek’s latest decarbonization strategy, far outsizes Temasek’s landmark impact investing partnerships with BlackRock, Brookfield and Leapfrog.
The UK insurer’s asset management arm is also raising a climate transition fund and has set a 2040 net-zero target for its £47bn real assets portfolio.
Gender-lens investing is just the start of the conversation when it comes to equity in private market investments, says DEG’s Katharina Thier.
The IFC says external verification of impact performance data helps its fund selection – but AP4’s Hanna Ideström believes putting capital to work is more important than waiting for perfect data.