Ethics

Fact sheets bring into question ability to meaningfully incorporate values into large cap funds

Requirement for large fund managers to start reporting voting information expected to be implemented by year-end

Body, set up in 2007 to advise the AP funds on responsible investment, is due for a redesign

The latest developments in sustainable finance

The latest developments in sustainable finance

Private equity firm Pretium Partners is currently under a US congressional investigation over potentially discriminatory practices

Thousands - including heads of states, political dissidents, journalists and activists - have been identified as potential victims

RI’s human rights specialist Gina Gambetta reflects on recent developments on the 10th anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

Workers in apparel supply chains are among the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. Even before the pandemic, workers had to survive on poverty wages; in the first three months of the pandemic alone, workers lost at least US$3 billion in income. Poverty, discrimination, a lack of labor protections, and restrictions on movement form the breeding ground for exploitation and forced labor risks— and the Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically worsened these factors. Workers’ already meager livelihoods were taken away and many lack the support of social and labor protections, which do not extend to (undocumented) migrant workers.

A number of Danish funds have put companies under observation or axed them