Japan pension adopts gender diversity index

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund has selected the gender diversity index recently launched by Morningstar in partnership with Equileap.

NN Investment appoints head of sustainability

Adrie Heinsbroek was been appointed as chief sustainability officer at NN Investment Partners.

Ethos Funds and BCV Asset Management have launched the Ethos Swiss Sustainable Equities investment fund.

Natixis Investment Managers has launched the Mirova US Sustainable Equity Fund.

The BNP Paribas Energy Transition fund has reached EUR 1.5bn AUM seeing a return of 132% YTD.

JP Morgan Asset Management has launched a new carbon transition ETF.

30 asset managers representing over $9 trillion of assets have signed up to the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative.

Ostrum Asset Management has announced a goal to fully phase out coal exposure in its funds by 2030 for OECD countries.

M&G has launched a new range of sustainable multi-asset funds aligned to the UN SDG framework.

GAM investments has appointed Stephanie Maier a Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investment.