Following on its action plan on financing sustainable growth published in March 2018, the European Commission established a technical expert group on sustainable finance (TEG) in July 2018. The action…
Category: Policy
This summer, the European Commission has formally requested the technical advice from the EU’s main financial supervisory bodies on how to integrate sustainability across its main financial markets legislation. On…
On the 13th of November 2017, the European Commission launched a public consultation on institutional investors and asset managers’ duties regarding sustainability. Its primary aim was to gather and analyse the…
Today, the EU finance ministers have adopted a blacklist of 17 countries and territories that do not cooperate in the fight against tax evasion and tax avoidance. A second, so-called…
The European Commission steps up Today, the 13th of November, the European Commission launched a public consultation on providing legal clarification that the legal duties (sometimes referred to as fiduciary…
In an article for the PensionsAge October 2017 magazine (free registration required), Andrew Williams talks to Eurosif’s Executive Director, Flavia Micilotta, as he examines why interest in ESG strategies continues…
For the eleventh time, VBDO has reviewed the sustainability performance of the 50 largest Dutch pension funds. The aim of this report is to provide pension funds and their stakeholders with…
This morning the Government set out its “world leading” package of corporate governance reforms designed to increased boardroom accountability and enhance trust in business. The reforms focus on three areas:…
