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Sustainable Investing:

Pax World acquired in $90M sustainable investing deal
Financial Planning
“We believe that combining our two firms will create a leading sustainable investment manager with business on both sides of the Atlantic,” said Pax ...
Climate-investing deal targets sustainable returns - Breakingviews
Impax Asset Management Acquires Rival Pax World Management - WealthManagement.com
Impax Asset Management acquires Pax to expand its sustainable investment strategy - City A.M.
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APG and E Fund launch first China-focused sustainable investing strategy
Asia Asset Management
It's the first concentrated equities strategy that will invest in China A-shares and adhere to sustainable and RI frameworks and criteria, E Fund says in a ...
 
Sustainable Investing Symposium Draws Financial Advisors to DC
Broadway World
Sustainable Investing Symposium Draws Financial Advisors to D.C. Forward-thinking financial advisors joined a group of leading investment firms ...

Global Reporting Initiative: 

One Year In, PepsiCo Reports Progress Against Performance with Purpose 2025 Goals
Markets Insider
The company has launched a new, interactive A–Z Topics on pepsico.com. This replaces the separate Global Reporting Initiative Report published in ...
   
Are businesses becoming more responsible?
Livemint
The scores were arrived at by evaluating each company's sustainability or Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) reports, company annual reports and ...
   
B2Gold rakes in record N$8,9b revenue
Namibian
This information is contained in B2Gold's Responsible Mining Report for ... based on internationally respected Global Reporting Initiative guidelines.

Renewable Energy Investments:

Renewable energy investments set to change Far North Queensland
The Cairns Post
HUGE investments in wind farms, bio-refineries and hydro-electricity are setting up the Far North to become a leader in renewable energy.
   
China Dominates Global Investments in Renewable Energy
Lexology (registration)
Market research has long recognized China as the largest investor in its own domestic renewable energy industry. According to Bloomberg New ... 
   
US Corporations & Institutions Strengthening Renewable Energy Commitment In Wake Of US ...
CleanTechnica
“Organizations are realizing the benefits of renewable energy investments as part of their business, irrespective of the current political climate, ...

CDP Sustainability:

CNH Industrial named as one of the 24 most sustainable companies in the world
ETAuto.com
CNH Industrial is also ranked among the 193 A listers in the 2016 CDP ... DJSI Europe are among the most prestigious sustainability-focused equity ...

General Motors, Disney, Shell and 1200 other companies are taking steps to fight climate change ...
Chicago Tribune
... companies and cities track greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the companies' sustainability reports. The CDP found that 517 companies have ...
 
Sustainable Brands Releases Program Details for New Metrics '17 Conference
CSRwire.com (press release)
Over 75 speakers from leading organizations such as EY, CDP and The Sustainability Consortium will collaborate with executives attending from ...

Impact Investing:

New deal will make impact investing easier for Michigan foundations
Crain's Detroit Business
Affordable housing, small businesses and civic infrastructure projects in Michigan could see new impact investment from the state's foundations in the ...

As Wealthy Millennials Take Control Of Family Fortunes, Impact Investing Is Set For A Big Boost
Fast Company
“We need a bit more education out there because some people feel they are engaged in impact investing, but they don't really understand the ...
 
Australia Launches First Live Impact Investing Database
Pro Bono Australia
Investors looking to support businesses making a social impact have been bolstered by the launch of a live impact investing database, which looks to ...
Time for a closer look at impact investing - Investment Magazine
Barclays launches impact investment fund of funds - Citywire.co.uk
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Resource Conservation Investments:

Mayor Barry announces launch of Metro Conservation Assistance Fund
WKRN.com
The fund will begin with an initial metro investment of $500,000, which was ... The creation of the new initiative is to more effectively protect public or private lands with documented merits for natural-resource conservation or ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Santa Barbara Council to Take Up Socially Responsible Investment Strategy, May Switch Banks
Noozhawk
The committee agreed to support a policy that supports “socially responsible goals to the extent that such investments achieve substantially equivalent ...

Prices, bad policy, Amazon, socially responsible investing and Thomas Hobbes – how on earth are ...
Livewire Markets
Capitalism works because companies are free to enter and leave businesses. Labour is also free to move from one activity to another. Returns on ...
   
How Signing The UN-Supported PRI Can Help Royce Drive Investment Outcomes
ValueWalk
Gunjan Banati: Responsible investing has really evolved over time from how it originated in the form of socially responsible investing, which was ...

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

The Trump White House Gave These Mutual Funds a Big Boost
Fortune
After his surprise victory, some investors wondered whether the recent growth of so-called sustainable investing would be lopped off like a ...

UBS to Launch Sustainable Investing Indexes
Barron's
UBS (UBS) soon plans to push further into sustainable investing with a ... say, Optimus will research and fund charitable causes that assist veterans, ...

BNY Mellon to help launch sustainable investment mutual fund
GlobalCustodian.com (subscription)
The asset manager will access BNY Mellon's custody and fund services through its mutual fund turnkey software product, FundVantage Trust.
BNY Mellon wins mandate from sustainable investment specialist Arabesque - Asset Servicing Times
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Sustainability Investing:   

Interview with Michael Baldinger, Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing at UBS Asset ...
Climate Action Programme
Climate Action recently spoke with Michael Baldinger, Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing at UBS Asset Management – Global Head ...

Playing Catch-Up: Investors Lag Behind Corporations In Adopting Sustainability Principles
Seeking Alpha
When I was a teenager growing up in Basel, I witnessed first-hand one of the events that put sustainability thinking on the agendas of the corporate ...

Pax World acquired in $90M sustainable investing deal
Financial Planning
“We believe that combining our two firms will create a leading sustainable investment manager with business on both sides of the Atlantic,” said Pax ...
Green Fund Firm Impax Snaps Up US Rival Pax - Institutional Investor
Impax Asset Management Acquires Rival Pax World Management - WealthManagement.com
Micro climate - Breakingviews
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Philanthropic Investing:

Study: Kalamazoo's philanthropists favor transformative investment
MLive.com
William Parfet and William Johnston attend an Aug. 21, 2017 City Commission meeting regarding the Kalamazoo Foundation for Excellence. (Malachi ...

Family offices reap better returns in 2016
Barron's
Family offices across the globe delved into riskier investments last year to make up ... More than 28% of family offices are active in impact investing — direct ... 74% of philanthropic investments, although that's down from 81% in 2016.
 
Millennials are driving a shift in how the ultra-wealthy manage their money
Business Insider
Family offices, which manage the money of the super rich, are focusing more on philanthropy and impact investing, according to a report out by UBS, ...

Green Bond Funds:

Opening new frontiers in green finance
EURACTIV
Both have entered the green bond market this summer, explain Harald Lund ... For example, last spring, Repsol issued a green bond to fund energy ...
 
TD raises US$1-billion in bank's first green bond issue south of border
Financial Post
TD raises US$1-billion in bank's first green bond issue south of border ... million raise (December 2015) and in May 2017, a US$500 million funding. (Ontario has also completed a US$500 million green bond offering in the U.S.) One ...

CASE STUDY: Cape Town Wins Race to Issue Africa's First Municipal Green Bond
Bonds & Loans (registration)
The City of Cape Town successfully placed ZAR1bn in new green bonds this Summer to fund a raft of sustainability initiatives in the city, proving once ...

Low Carbon Funds: 

Scotland's GBP-60m innovation fund to back low-carbon tech
Renewables Now (subscription)
According to a government statement on Wednesday, the fund will finance low-carbon energy infrastructures projects such as battery storage, ... 
   
UK cities expected to get millions of pounds for green energy projects
The Guardian
... more than £3m to help local leaders build low carbon initiatives, such as installing solar panels on social housing. The funding would be a key plank of the government's upcoming blueprint on how to meet the UK's binding carbon ...

Insurance companies should collect a carbon levy
Nature.com
A surcharge on energy producers would fund climate adaptation and the low-carbon transition, suggest Anthony J. Webster and Richard H. Clarke.