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Net-zero outsourcing - will 'great minds think alike'?

Net-zero insurers describe to David Walker a future of working only with asset managers that can show they are committed to the same goal

DWS hires Amundi head of institutional business

News round-up: 9 July 2021

AllianzGI; AXA IM; Allianz X; Dai-ichi Life; M&G; Barings; NN Investment Partners; Amundi; Franklin Templeton; Willis Towers Watson

Net-Zero Asset Managers expands with 41 more signatories

French investors launch socially driven transition coalition

Initiative by Finance for Tomorrow with members including Aviva France, AXA, CNP Assurances

COMMENT: Hedge fund activists - new, unlikely allies in insurers' climate fight?

Patient insurers and agitating activists once sat at opposite ends of the shareholding spectrum. Climate change might be changing that.

Institutional investors call on banks to set enhanced net-zero targets

Some 35 members of the IIGCC launch engagement campaign with banks

Predica investment income down 4.8% in 2020

Nearly three of quarters of France's largest life insurer invested in bonds

Responsible investing news round-up - 09 February 2021

Aviva Investors' infra investment; Amundi's ESG funds

Amundi formally establishes outsourced CIO solution

Manager already manages €44bn of assets in outsourced CIO mandates