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Sustainable Investing News | 5th July 2023
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In this Sustainable News update, our host Rory Palmer discusses Bain & Company's most recent study on ESG factors as risks or opportunities and reactions from world companies; ShareAction's decision to challenge the definition of responsible investment to raise standards and prevent greenwashing, and finally Franklin Templeton's first social impact fund.Speaker 0:
Hello and welcome to this sustainability update on Asset TV. I'm your host for this one. Rory Palmer Making the headlines This week, Martin Curry launches its first social impact fund while share action calls on the financial sector to use its own definition of responsible investment to raise standards and prevent green washing.
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First up, though, a recent study by Bain and Company has found that banks globally are split on whether they view various ESG factors as risks or as opportunities. The survey, which included 55 banks, found that they're split between taking offensive versus defensive postures with a slight leaning towards offensive. Now, a lot of the differences in whether banks saw it as a risk or an opportunity vary by region.
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European banks appear to be more bullish on environment transition factors, with 60% viewing these issues as an opportunity or even an opportunity to create value. Meanwhile, fewer than a third of respondents in the Americas or Asia Pacific shared the same view. And while more than half of America's respondents view social issues primarily as an opportunity, most Europeans consider social issues to be more of a risk or a balance of risk and opportunity
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elsewhere. Nonprofit campaign Group Share Action has challenged the financial sector to use its own definition of responsible investment in a bid to raise standards and prevent green washing across the industry. Now it intends for this new definition to actively call on institutional investors ranging from pension funds, asset managers, insurers and banks to take responsibility for the real world. Impact of investments on people and on planet
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transparency is key to share action. And it wants disclosures made in plain English to cover the actual and expected impacts of portfolio companies, how they're factored into investment decisions and stewardship of investment companies, including an approach to public policy advocacy.
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And finally, Martin Curry, a specialist investment manager of Franklin Templeton, has launched its first social impact fund, the FTGF Martin Curry Improving Society Fund, its Global Fund Categorises Article nine. Under the EU's Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation,
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it aims to deliver long term capital growth on advancing fairness of social opportunity and narrowing the equality gap concentrated portfolio of around 20 to 35 global names will contribute to three impact pillars, improving well being, improving inclusion and supporting a just transition towards a sustainable economy. Well, that's all we have time for on this update. Join me here next time on asset TV. See you then.
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