The parent company of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, a gatekeeper for Japanese pension funds, is transforming its purpose to ‘balanced creation of both social value and economic value’.
The £32 billion pension has raised its ESG data hurdle for managers as it struggles to aggregate managers’ data and obtain DEI data, head of ESG Claire Curtin says at the Infrastructure Investor Global Summit in Berlin.
Republicans in four US states have pushed back against trend, with one claiming ESG scores threaten to 'usurp the legislative process'.
There’s a mismatch between pension funds’ bitesizes, risk appetites and the impact fund market. Former Leapfrog fundraiser Xenia Loos and Marlene Stam’s advisory shop is trying to resolve that.
ESG is given little consideration among South Korean investors, says a senior exec at Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance, but the $35bn insurer is 'really interested in the impact side'.
Former CDC CEO Paul Fletcher has created a fund of funds to invest in top-quartile private equity funds and donate proceeds to education charities.
Members of the ESG data platform’s independent advisory group include a former chief executive of Allianz Global Investors and the co-founder of SASB.
The head of Ford Foundation’s impact group discusses how better fund structures could benefit all stakeholders of an investment.
Apollo, New York State Common Retirement Fund and other LPs and GPs discuss what makes good ESG data and the direction of travel for reporting.
The US pension’s lead PE director told conference delegates that unstandardised reporting holds back ESG as a tool for risk assessment.