The Chinese life insurance company believes that local expertise is important in identifying long-term investment opportunities under China’s carbon neutrality target.
Investors have been slow to direct capital towards nature and biodiversity preservation. Blended finance offers a potential solution to the funding problem, says a newly released report.
The Public Officials Benefit Association does what it can to incorporate ESG internally, but external data still need work, its CIO tells AsianInvestor.
The lack of efficient return and risk metrics is preventing life insurance companies from participating in long-term sustainable investments in blended finance.
Apac asset owners are more keen than their global peers on private equity and infrastructure sustainable investments. However, they trail behind in public equity.
The most common strategy was ESG integration, with $24.6 trillion of AUM deployed, although negative screening and shareholder action were also popular.
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