Water is the latest focus area for the Canadian Pension Plan’s responsible investing initiative, with the fund planning to target big Canadian and global companies this year to gather information on their water usage. Click here to read more.
China is stepping up its clean energy drive, both through a reduction of its own emissions and by becoming the biggest supplier of some clean-energy equipment in the world. Picture (courtesy China Daily) shows cooling towers being demolished with explosives amid efforts to reduce emissions in Zoucheng, East China’s Shandong province, last week.Click here to
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Korea Investment Corporation, a $35 billion sovereign wealth fund, plans to double its allocation to private markets, including distressed debt and real estate, to 20 per cent over the next five years.
Water is the latest focus area for the Canadian Pension Plan’s responsible investing initiative, with the fund planning to target big Canadian and global companies this year to gather information on their water usage.
A significant proportion of US endowments and other non-profit funds are at least “moderately interested” in outsourcing their investment management to a multi-manager model in the wake of the global financial crisis, according to a new survey by SEI Investments Company.
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