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Asset managers that have a high percentage of women on their investment teams outperform gender-diversity laggards by 45 basis points, a report from WTW has found. That figure, highlighted on International Women’s Day, points to higher annual net returns for investment teams in the top quartile of gender diversity, versus funds in the lowest diversity … Read more
Industry network Black Women in Asset Management (BWAM) is growing fast, having held its first annual conference last year and recently launched a cross-company mentorship scheme. Here, the network’s CEO Jacqueline Taiwo sits down with ESG Clarity to talk about why she set up the group and what she hopes to see from the industry … Read more
Liontrust’s head of sustainable fixed income Stuart Steven is to retire in September. Steven (pictured) has spent the past decade developing and managing the fixed income proposition within the asset manager’s sustainable investment team. He will start to relinquish his responsibilities from April. His colleagues Aitken Ross, Kenny Watson and Jack Willis will retain their … Read more
BNP Paribas Asset Management has launched two sustainable bond ETFS to expand its range to 17. The BNP Paribas Easy Euro Aggregate Bond SRI Fossil Free ETF and BNP Paribas Easy JPM ESG EMU Government Bond IG 1-3Y ETF are listed on the Euronext Paris, Borsa Italiana and Deutsche Börse Xetra. The BNP Paribas Easy … Read more
The Columbia Threadneedle Foundation has given a grant to the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) to fund research to improve gender inclusion in local government economic policy making. The grant will fund research aimed at understanding how gender inclusion can be prioritised in the development and implementation of economic strategies by local government, in … Read more
LeapFrog Investments has expanded its climate investment strategy team with the addition of four team members. Katherine Owens (pictured) will be based in London and will be responsible for developing the firm’s climate impact focus and measuring LeapFrog’s contribution to climate action and adaptation. She brings more than 10 years of experience in ESG and … Read more
Assets from investment and wealth managers, as well as insurance and pensions, will be able to be channelled to community and social enterprises in the UK as part of the planned expansion of the government’s dormant asset scheme. The UK government has today announced a further £31m of funding (on top of the £800m already … Read more
Covid-19, a war in Ukraine and climate change are contributing to a global food crisis. Here in the UK, consumers face escalating prices and the rationing of fruit and vegetables. In Africa, Asia and Latin America climate change fuelled extreme weather events have caused crop and livestock devastation. The domestic supply shortages have been exacerbated … Read more
Impax Asset Management is opening a new office in Tokyo this month, following the firm’s selection by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to receive a ‘Green Finance Subsidy Programme for Tokyo Market Entry’. The firm said it will hire a small number of employees and added that it will continue to collaborate with BNP Paribas Asset … Read more
Shareholders are voting for greater transparency on lobbying and political activity at the US companies they invest in, but fund giants Vanguard and BlackRock are holding back support. Research by Morningstar has found a steady stream of shareholder resolutions at US companies requesting greater transparency over recent years. There were 48 shareholder resolutions in the … Read more