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Melior Investment Management selects RBC I&TS for custody services
03 July 2019 Sydney
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

RBC Investor & Treasury Services has been selected by Melior Investment Management to provide its custody and fund administration services

INDOS Financial appoints Seymour Banks as head of ESG
18 June 2019 London
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

Seymour Banks has joined INDOS Financial as head of ESG, where he will assume responsibility for developing ESG screening and verification services to clients

State Street enhances its ESG platform
31 May 2019 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

State Street has made a series of enhancements to ESGX, the firm’s web-based platform that provides its clients with tools to assess environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG)-factor exposure in their portfolios

CFA UK launches a qualification in ESG investment
14 May 2019 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The certificate in ESG Investing will be recognised and supported by the principles for responsible investment

ALFI: ESG will be on industry agenda for some time
10 May 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Initiatives and the broad understanding of ESG will not leave the agenda of financial services firms anytime soon, according to James Broderick, a panellist at the ALFI conference in London

ESG investment see ‘improved long-term returns’
09 April 2019 London
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

A new study published by BNP Paribas Securities Services has found that 52 percent of ESG investments have seen “improved long-term returns” since 2017

BNY Mellon launches ESG reporting tools
20 March 2019 New York
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

BNY Mellon has launched a range of reporting tools to enable clients to track their portfolio investments based on ESG issues and UNGC principles

Apex partners with Institutional Shareholder Services
25 January 2019 Rockville
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Apex has partnered with Institutional Shareholder Services to deliver ESG reporting to investment managers

Lack of tools and data is a barrier for asset owners
25 June 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Lack of tools and data is a barrier for asset owners, an ESG survey by the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing Management has revealed

Linedata: Awareness of ESG compliance is growing
20 June 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) and impact investing were popular topics at this year’s Linedata conference in London

New fixed income ETF provider to launch in Europe
15 May 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

A new exchange-traded fund (ETF) is set to launch a range of unique fixed income funds targeting European institutional investors

ALFI: Will AI replace humans?
04 May 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Discussions about blockchain, artificial intelligence and distributed ledger technology featured heavily at this year’s conference