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Computing power, not sanctions, the real lever over China: Kotkin

Computing power, not sanctions, the real lever over China: Kotkin

Computing power offers efficient leverage that Hoover Institution historian Stephen Kotkin argues the US has against China, with the US dominating world’s compute capacity at 75 to 80 per cent. In a keynote address to the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Stanford University, Kotkin also examined how Nvidia's Jensen Huang could become the central actor reshaping that balance.

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Asset owner call to drive policy

It is difficult to see how the world will cap emissions in line with the Paris agreement unless asset owners drive change, aligning their portfolios to net zero and demanding more from their managers, delegates at PRI in Person heard.

How Danone leads corporate world on ESG

In conversation with Eva Halvarsson, CEO of SEK 334 billion ($34 billion) Swedish buffer fund AP2 at PRI in Person in Paris, CFO of French multi-national food group Danone Cécile Cabanis, told delegates that the goal of the company is to contribute positively to all 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Pizza and diversity: How funds move dial

Empowering long-term influential asset owners to invest responsibly is the key to hastening take-up in responsible investment. Delegates heard how some leading asset owners are doing this through their diversity and ESG practices.

France urges more ESG action

“It’s time to act,” said Bruno Le Maire, France’s Minister of the Economy and Finance in the opening keynote speech at PRI in Person in Paris in a speech, which underscored with a sense of urgency that the financial world is not doing enough to meet today’s ESG challenges.

Asset owners demand more ESG from GPs

ESG is a core expectation of LPs in assessing private equity managers, and some asset owners including AP2 are willing to forego opportunities if a manager is not transparent on ESG, a panel at PRI in Person discussed.

Do more, act now, urges PRI’s Reynolds

Ahead of the PRI in Person conference this week in Paris, Top1000funds.com spoke to CEO of PRI Fiona Reynolds about her aim for the conference which includes the over-riding aim to get further, faster.

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