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Investors able to spot scalable and community-based solutions will have an advantage as climate justice takes center stage in global climate talks and the U.S. infrastructure rebuild.
The latest investment-return figures for NJ’s s public-worker pension fund are in, revealing annual returns to near 30%.
Some schools, including Washington University in St. Louis and Duke University, gained more than 50%.
The top U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday proposed requiring large hedge funds and endowments to disclose how they vote on executive pay, bringing this clutch of influential investors in line with other top funds that have made their pay votes public for a decade.
Lauren Mathias, who oversees Callan’s coverage of emerging managers and diverse-, women-, and disabled-owned firms, spoke with Citywire about her firm’s diversity due diligence.
Canada’s No. 2 pension fund, Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, said Tuesday it will shed all of its oil production assets, valued at C$3.9 billion ($3.08 billion), by the end of 2022 and reduce carbon intensity by 60% by 2030.
Investors with assets worth over $1.6 trillion urged Congress on Tuesday to pass a federal paid family and medical leave policy as part of President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending plan, according to a letter viewed by Reuters.
A 24/7 Wall St. analysis reveals that Illinois is the state with the worst pension fund crisis.
When it comes to funding female founders, 2020 was one of the worst years on record. At the global level, only 9% of all funding for technology start-ups went to the founding team, which included at least one woman. One female founder and a team of all women raised just 2% of all VC dollars.
Investors yanked money out of exchange-traded funds tracking emerging bonds last week as the spectacular unraveling of China Evergrande Group and a hawkish tilt from the Federal Reserve hit appetite for risky debt.
