Top Fund Managers Ask Federal Court to Dismiss Climate-Related Antitrust Lawsuit March 24, 2025 By Ross Kerber and Shivani Tanna BlackRoc, Vanguard and State Street have asked a federal court in Texas to dismiss a state lawsuit accusing the top...
New York City Pension Plans Seek to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Fossil Fuel Stakes August 16, 2023 By Saijel Kishan New York City pension funds filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed in May that alleged the plans breached...
Insurers Among Investors as Canada’s Brookfield Raises $15B for Climate Fund June 24, 2022 By Niket Nishant and Cole Horton Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management said on Wednesday it had raised $15 billion for its first impact fund focused on the...
Takeaways from Our Conversation on ESG Risks in Cannabis April 7, 2022 By Don Jergler Environmental, social and governance may have rightly taken a backseat to Russia’s war on Ukraine, but it’s still a big...
SEC to Focus on Companies Instead of Investment Firms in Climate Disclosure September 15, 2021 By Tim Quinson The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has decided to take a different tack on climate-risk disclosures than its counterparts in...
Pandemic Shows Why Climate Change Is Major Economic Risk, Says Europe’s Schnabel August 31, 2020 By Balazs Koranyi and Frank Siebelt The coronavirus pandemic demonstrates in the clearest terms why central banks must take a bigger role in fighting climate change...
Insurer Pulls Plug on Socially-Conscious Investment Platform Targeting Millennials July 29, 2019 By Emily Chasan In 2017, Pacific Life Insurance Co. introduced a socially conscious, online investing platform tailored to thirtysomethings eager to use their...
Climate Change at ‘Tipping Point,’ Says Europe’s Biggest Asset Manager June 1, 2018 The world’s deepest-pocketed investors are starting to take climate change seriously, according to Amundi SA. “We are really observing a...
What University of Washington’s Climate Risk and Insurance Summit Has in Common with Paris May 26, 2016 By Don Jergler It may not be a climate change summit for the ages like last year’s Paris meeting in which world leaders...