All Sustainable financial system articles – Page 4
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News and press
PRI undertakes work with Willis Towers Watson on megatrends
The PRI and Willis Towers Watson have today announced that they are collaborating on a project to produce a report on megatrends.
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News and press
European Commission calls for ‘deep re-engineering of the financial system’ to support sustainable economies
The European Commission has taken unprecedented steps to bring sustainability into the heart of Europe’s capital markets.
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News and press
PRI launches South Africa roadmap
Today, the PRI, UNEP FI and The Generation Foundation published a new report – The South Africa Roadmap– which builds on the report Fiduciary duty in the 21st century.
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ArticleRecommandations de la Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures - Etude des éléments pertinents à l'échelle locale
La stratégie française est de procéder par petites avancées afin de laisser à tous les acteurs le temps de mettre en place les obligations d’information en matière de changement climatique.
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News and press
Letter from global investors to governments of the G7 and G20 nations
This letter is signed by nearly 400 investors representing more than US$22 trillion in assets.
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News and press
PRI publishes Japan roadmap: new report makes recommendations on ESG considerations for the Japanese market
The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), UNEP FI and the Generation Foundation today published a new report — the Japan Roadmap — which builds on the report Fiduciary duty in the 21st century.
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News and press
PRI sets out Sustainable Financial System programme
The PRI set out its Sustainable Financial System (SFS) programme to US signatories at an event hosted by IEX in New York on 29 March.
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Discussion paperNine priority conditions for a sustainable financial system
Following our consultation - Sustainable financial system, principles, impact– we identified nine priority conditions that need to be addressed to transform the financial system:
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Discussion paperWhy the PRI is working towards a sustainable financial system
The financial system is not operating sustainably and it often fails society. We need to realign the system with sustainable, equitable economies. Our signatories have a central role to play.
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Blog post
Fintech: Reshaping the investment industry
Within the space of six years, finance technology – fintech – has gone from a technology that skirted the edges of the investment sphere to receiving billing at this year’s G20 summit where the world’s industrial leaders described its impact as something akin to a new industrial revolution.
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PRI Web Page
Global statement on investor obligations and duties: explanatory notes
In January 2016, the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and The Generation Foundation launched a three year project to clarify investors’ obligations and duties in relation to the integration of environmental, social and governance issues in investment practice and decision-making. This ...
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PRI Web Page
Global statement on investor obligations and duties: FAQs
What is the statement? The Statement calls on international policymakers and national governments to clarify the obligations and duties of investors and other organisations in the investment system. It calls, specifically, for governments to clarify that investors and other organisations in the investment system must act with due care, skill ...
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PRI Web Page
Global statement on investor obligations and duties: supporting quotes
I fully support PRI and UNEP FI’s efforts to make financial flows consistent with the needed limitation of greenhouse emissions and the financing of climate resilient development. Michel Sapin, Minister of Finance, France Sustainability is an important factor in the long-term success of a business. Therefore as ...
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PRI Web PageGlobal statement on investor obligations and duties
The Global statement on investor obligations and duties calls on international policymakers and national governments to clarify the obligations and duties of investors and other organisations in the investment system.
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Blog postAre investment consultants' reputations the next stranded assets
A paper from Ben Caldecott and Dane Rook lays out why investment consultants are not having a bigger influence on the uptake of green investment practices by asset owners.
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Blog post
Long-term capitalism
In these articles, Barton and Wiseman outline their view that the short-term approaches to managing and investing in companies, approaches which were responsible for the financial crisis, still exist.
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Academic researchRI Quarterly Vol. 3: Long-termism in financial markets
Why is there so little academic research on long termism in financial markets?
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Blog post
Uncertain times, plural rationalities and the pension fiduciary
Huang et al in this paper explore the application of the theory of plural rationality to defined benefit pension fund decision-making.
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Blog post
Fiduciary duty and sin stocks: is vice really nice?
This paper investigates whether fiduciary duty obliges pension fund trustees to invest over-proportionally in ‘sin stocks’, i.e. companies operating in sectors traditionally considered unethical such as tobacco, alcohol, gambling and defence.
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Blog post
Fiduciary duty and the search for a shared conception of sustainable investment
This paper reviews the historical legal background to the evolution of fiduciary duty in the UK, with reference to the parallel evolution of the concept in the US.
