Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

Endowus to launch Asia's first digital multi-asset ESG portfolios for retail investors - THE EDGE SINGAPORE

Sustainability

Endowus to launch Asia's first digital multi-asset ESG portfolios for retail investors

Fund managers of these funds include JP Morgan Asset Management, Natixis-Mirova, PIMCO, Schroders and UOB Asset Management-Robeco.
Amundi launches three funds here to broaden retail and ESG offerings  - THE EDGE SINGAPORE

Asset management

Amundi launches three funds here to broaden retail and ESG offerings

The funds can provide investors exposure to opportunities for diversification, quality value and post-Covid ESG themes.
Six Singapore firms now among Bloomberg's 2021 Gender-Equality Index - THE EDGE SINGAPORE

Environmental, Social and Governance

Six Singapore firms now among Bloomberg's 2021 Gender-Equality Index

This is Genting Singapore's first time in the index, while DBS tops the list of Asean companies in the index.

Sustainability

Temasek to report air miles, paper, water usage in green push

SINGAPORE (Nov 12): Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings Pte will start reporting its air miles, water, paper and electricity usage from this financial year, according to Chief Executive Officer Ho Ching.

Sustainability

Human rights and wrongs: Engaging with Chinese suppliers on sustainability

SINGAPORE (Oct 21): Companies can have a great deal of influence over their supply chains. Steady progress makes us confident that our engagement efforts are worthwhile and have already led to a significant shift in thinking at some Chinese manufacturers.

Funds

Growing population and climate risks are seeding interest in food and agriculture investments

SINGAPORE (Sept 16): By year-end, a new strategy focused on the entire food value chain may be made available to investors in Singapore. Amundi-owned subsidiary CPR Asset Management, which has assets under management of more than €47.5 billion ($72 bill

Management & Corporate Governance

The end of shareholder primacy?

SINGAPORE (Sept 2): In August, the Business Roundtable, a group comprising the CEOs of the US’ largest and most powerful corporations, formally abandoned the view that maximising shareholder value should be a company’s primary objective. The implicati

Sustainability

Asean banks failing to respond fast enough to existential environmental threats: WWF report

SINGAPORE (Aug 21): For decades, the financial industry has been accused of not taking climate risks seriously. A new report by conservation organisation WWF suggests that Asean banks, in particular, are dragging their feet on the issue.

Sustainability

Making money responsibly is no longer a choice

SINGAPORE (Aug 19): The call for better environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices among businesses is no longer niche or restricted to the echo chamber of a handful of money managers and European pension funds. Globally, impact investing — wh

Sustainability

Making money responsibly is no longer a choice

SINGAPORE (Aug 19): The call for better environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices among businesses is no longer niche or restricted to the echo chamber of a handful of money managers and European pension funds. Globally, impact investing — wh
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