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The leading sustainability tech platform joins the ranks of OpenAI, NASA, and more
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RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: RNR) (the “Company” or “RenaissanceRe”) held its 16th Annual Risk Mitigation Leadership Forum, Leading the Transition to a Green Economy: Role of Credit & Risk Transfer. The forum was hosted by RenaissanceRe’s Credit Team, led by Fiona Walden, SVP, Global Head of Credit, in partnership with ClimateWise, an insurance industry collaboration convened by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. This press release features multimedia. View the full
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Acelero, Inc. today announced that the BlackRock Impact Opportunities Fund and The Builders Fund have co-led a strategic investment in the company that will help expand its mission to dismantle inequities in early childhood education across the country. The BlackRock Impact Opportunities Fund seeks to improve economic outcomes for undercapitalized communities of color while uncovering compelling investment opportunities for its clients. BlackRock is joined in this funding round by The Builders F
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Vanguard Renewables Announces Five Major Food and Beverage Companies Have Joined The Farm Powered Strategic Alliance
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On Thursday, June 16, 2022, more than 900 people from over 100 firms from the leveraged finance and private equity communities came together for the Leveraged Finance Fights Melanoma (LFFM) benefit and cocktail party. Hosted at the Museum of Modern Art, the event raised a record breaking $3 million for the Melanoma Research Alliance’s (MRA) mission to advance the world’s most innovative and promising melanoma research. “Each year, I continue to be amazed by the community’s response to this event
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Cadre, the leading technology-enabled real estate investment platform, today announced an acquisition together with the BlackRock Impact Opportunities Fund. The Harvest at Marmalade apartments, a 252-unit multifamily asset Cadre acquired in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, represents the firm’s latest commitment to supporting diverse-owned and led managers focused on creating and preserving affordable multifamily housing across the country. The acquisition aligns with Cadre and BlackRock’s mutual
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SoftBank Vision Fund 2 leads funding round totaling $50 million, indicating a valuation of $450 million
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Existing investor, BlackRock, also participates in the round; Fifth Wall joins as a new investor
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Recap of CSR stories on Business Wire
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Global leaders in technology, financial services and consumer goods will pioneer growth of socially aware money market fund
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Green Finance media highlights the following: The European Commission has finally published the report it commissioned from BlackRock! This report, which is nearly 300 pages long, covers the following topic: the development of tools and mechanisms for the integration of ESG factors into the EU banking prudential framework and banks' business strategies and investment policies Before we begin, let us back-track a little… Several months ago, several stakeholders were upset about a conflict of inte
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“This movement is about writing a new chapter in corporate governance – visionary in its goal to capture expertise from an underrepresented group of highly qualified professionals to effectively respond to the increased complexity businesses are facing today." – Susan C. Keating, WCD CEO
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National initiative complements Santander’s commitment to promoting greater financial well-being for US consumers
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With the need for household safety nets underscored by the pandemic, more companies commit to expand access to and embed emergency savings solutions
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Premier event fosters dialogue among international executives on diversity and inclusion, ESG, compensation, and other critical issues facing corporate boards
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The winner of this startup challenge will be awarded a $50,000 cash prize mentorship. SOURCE: Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) DESCRIPTION:April 22, 2021 /3BL Media/ - TechUnited:NJ, a nonprofit organization that represents over 500,000 innovators in the business and technology industry and its partner, Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), New Jersey’s largest provider of electric and gas, are continuing the work they began together in 2020 to support innovation within the CleanTech star
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SOURCE: Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) DESCRIPTION:April 9, 2021 /3BL Media/ - TechUnited:NJ will be announcing the launch of their 2nd annual BetterPlanet Challenge on April 22, 2021 at 12pm ET, virtually. The innovation challenge will award one winner with a $50K prize and applications with mentorship, press, and business opportunities. The event will be held virtually and will reveal this year’s Challenge Statement, a part of the TechUnited:BetterPlanet program with founding partner, P
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For the second year in a row, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has rocked the corporate and investment world with a simple tool…a letter. With the pandemic as a backdrop, he makes a compelling case for corporate responsibility amidst the existential environmental and social threats we face, with a strong call to action for transformation to a net zero economy.
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“Companies with strong profiles on material sustainability issues have potential to outperform those with poor profiles.” - Blackrock Sustainability Report
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Facedrive Inc. ("Facedrive") (TSXV:FD) (OTCQX:FDVRF), a Canadian "people-and-planet first" technology ecosystem, is excited to announce that it will be launching Steer, America’s fastest-growing electric vehicle subscription service and an integral part of Facedrive’s TaaS vertical, in Toronto, Ontario. Toronto will be the first Canadian city to welcome this hassle-free, low-emission alternative to owning, leasing or renting vehicles. The launch is scheduled for the first week of March, 2021, an
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SOURCE: Black Veatch DESCRIPTION:More efficient and sustainable operations have long been goals for utilities, but this has only become more challenging in the era of climate change. Utilities are being tasked with adapting faster than ever while also addressing more frequent extreme weather events, natural disasters, and regulatory structures that often do not keep pace with changing market dynamics. While utilities have varying ESG goals, decarbonization has emerged as a primary effort for many
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Public Benefit Company Designation Reflects Company’s Core Commitment to Improving Humanity’s Relationship to Water
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Michelle Edkins is Managing Director in BlackRock’s Investment Stewardship team, which seeks to promote governance best practices that help create long-term shareholder value for clients.
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First Republic Bank (NYSE:FRC), a leading private bank and wealth management company, today announced it has received the Corporate Social Responsibility Award from The Foreign Policy Association (FPA). The award is given to companies that meet the highest standard of responsible corporate citizenship. In addition to First Republic, BlackRock received the Corporate Social Responsibility Award during a ceremony in New York. “Since First Republic was founded in 1985, our purpose has been to take e
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Awards recognize the rise of purpose in business and build on Loyola’s role as global leader in social business education
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BlackRock, with nearly $7 trillion in assets under management, said it would put sustainability at the core of its investment decision-making, stating that “climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects.”
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CEO Larry Fink’s annual letter released today announcing that sustainability is at the center of BlackRock’s investment practices is a major turning point for the world’s largest asset manager, representing nearly $7 trillion AUM.
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Yesterday, GUESS announced that it has joined the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Make Fashion Circular initiative, an initiative to redesign the future of fashion. Specifically, GUESS has committed to develop denim according to the initiative’s Jeans Redesign Guidelines, which tackle the issues of waste and pollution associated with denim production. The guidelines establish minimum requirements for durability, material health, recyclability, and traceability. “The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is le
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Organizations to Work with Leading Nonprofits to Address Widespread Financial Insecurity
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Girls Who Invest has impacted over 700 women across its programs;
The number of internship partner firms has grown to approximately 100
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Girls Who Invest has impacted over 700 women across its programs; The
number of internship partner firms has grown to approximately 100
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One year after deadly Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the global organization Mercy Corps is helping the island’s small businesses, farmers and fishermen get back on their feet. With one in three workers in Puerto Rico employed by a small or medium-sized business and 80 percent of the island’s crop value wiped out by the storm, helping business owners generate income and providing tools to fishers and farmers to restore their livelihoods is crucial to the island’s continuing recovery.\r\rMercy C
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Changing technology, societal, and environmental conditions are disrupting and subsequently influencing how organizations – from FORTUNE 500 corporations to local food pantries – operate. As Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, Inc., described earlier this year in his annual letter to CEOs, organizations must explicitly convey their strategy for long-term growth and value creation, as financial performance is no longer the only measurement of a company’s strength, but instead the overall so
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Ideagen Annual Global Leadership 2030 Summit 2018 Thu, 06/21/2018 - 16:30 Subheader Ideagen's Annual Global Leadership 2030 Summit 2018 Convened the World's leading companies, NGO's and Public Sector to develop sytemic solutions via catalytic collaboration to solve for x. THE 25 Global Leaders List released... Type of Content Press Release Upload up your best audio files and captions for your FMR Exclusive BlogTalk Radio Interview with Alex Gorsky, CEO of Johnson Johnson (55.57 KB) Layout Standa
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The 2017 proxy season offered some indelible headlines on climate-related shareholder action: majority votes at ExxonMobil, Occidental Petroleum and PPL Corporation; the first-ever votes in favor of climate shareholder proposals by major investors BlackRock and Vanguard; and the much-anticipated release of initial 2-degree scenario analyses from North American oil and gas and electric power companies. This year’s narrative is more subtle, but potentially more powerful.
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Index suite, independently managed by J.P. Morgan, aims to set new
standard in emerging market debt (EMD) investing
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CEOs of PG&E Corporation and Wells Fargo to present long-term
strategic plans to investors representing $25 Trillion in AUM
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Ideagen Reveals Global 100 Innovators List of 2018 Tue, 02/20/2018 - 10:00 Type of Content Press Release Layout Media Gallery Body February 20, 2018 /3BL Media/ - Ideagen, where the world’s leading CEOs, corporations, NGOs, and public sector organizations convene to innovate and collaborate by introducing solutions to the world’s most vexing issues reveals their annual Global 100 Innovators List at the Microsoft Reactor in San Francisco. The Global Innovators 100 List highlights individuals who
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Larry Fink is Chief Executive of BlackRock. BlackRock’s portfolio weighs in at a cool US $4.6 trillion. So when he speaks it’s wise to listen. He has spoken. And what he has said, in a letter to top US and European CEOs, is the single most significant intervention ever made by an investor on CSR issues.\r\rBusiness Insider managed to obtain a copy of this private letter and post it on-line. It is a much more detailed, punchier version of a blog Fink posted last year. The fact that a second letter
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It's hard not to root for people like Deborah Winshel at BlackRock and others who are championing the notion of making the world a better place through what's known as \"impact investing.\"
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Oct 29, 2015 4:00 PM ET - The concept of impact investing has just received a big boost. BlackRock, the leading global money manager, has launched the BlackRock Impact U.S. Equity Fund. While the amount of the fund, $20 million, is a fraction of the $4.7 trillion that the...
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Dec 18, 2014 4:00 PM ET - BlackRock has added to its investment portfolio of ESG products with the launch of a new exchange traded fund, iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target ETF CRBN. This new fund tracks the MSCI ACQI Low Carbon Target Index, which focuses on carbon...