ESG
The agency selected a West Coast-based nonprofit to build and implement a green energy fund following an RFP process from the start of the year.
The college’s board of trustees decided against a proposal to divest from companies that sell weapons or materiel to the Israel Defense Forces following months of educations and deliberation from an advisory committee.
The platform, which focuses on philanthropy and investments impacting the oceans, food and agriculture and energy, has hired its inaugural head of investment stewardship from a large asset manager.
The university has begun the process of reviewing a resolution that would limit basing investment decisions on political and social events unrelated to the university in response to campus pressure to divest from companies involved with the Hamas-Israel armed conflict.
The university has incorporated an investment policy prohibiting proxy votes based on ESG-like considerations and slightly adjusted a hedge fund portfolio after completing an asset allocation study.
The healthcare system has slated an investment policy review from its general investment consultant for the third quarter.
The Climate Action Plan calls for $100 billion in climate solutions investments by 2030.
The university is closing on its goal of allocating 2.5% of its endowment to climate solution investments after creating the target in 2022 as part of broader goals to achieve a net-zero carbon emissions endowment.
The university approved a recommendation from its general investment consultant to add global equity managers in alignment with its fossil fuel divestment policy.
The school will consider divesting its approximately $465 million endowment from companies and industries identified by its Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility that are implicated in military and police violence in Gaza and the West Bank in the coming weeks.
