Milan, 20 May 2021. On their ESG Observatory Nr. 132, AIAF has published the paper on the emerging risk to ESG risk litigation. To date, the ESG risk litigation has largely focused on climate change and catastrophic environmental events. However, while climate change will continue to have an important influence to ESG risk litigation, the…
The upcoming CESGA Common Exam session to be held on June 11th 2021, counts 487 registered candidates, 20% more than the previous call Up to date, a total of 1,564 professionals from around the world already have the CESGA title granted by the European Federation of Financial Analysts Associations (EFFAS) and are Certified ESG (Environmental,…
In celebration of this year’s Earth Day on 22 April, Friends of the Earth (HK) have organised the Earth Forum to support the environmental movement. This is an online event to be held in English on 22 April 2021 at 10:-12:00 CET / 16:-18:00 HKT. The topic for discussion is “Green Finance as a Catalyst…
8 March 2021 The IFRS Foundation Trustees announced today strategic direction and further steps based on feedback to sustainability reporting consultation. The public statement has been posted on the IFRS Foundation website, Twitter and Linkedin.
25 February 2021 José Luis Jiménez, CESGA, Group Chief Investment Officer at MAPFRE, shares his top priorities for expanding investments and his strategies for overcoming operational challenges with Sara Benwell in an interview published on Fund Operator. Mr. Jiménez sets out MAPFRE’s priorities to continue to develop their skills processes, procedures, and a product range,…
The Project Task Force on non-financial reporting standards (PTF-NFRS) of the European Lab @EFRAG is holding a series of online outreach events to take place between 13 and 22 January 2021, for collecting the views of stakeholders from different countries on the tentative proposals of the PTF- NFRS on possible EU non-financial reporting standards. The…
27 November 2020, Frankfurt: ECB publishes final guide after considering comments from public consultation Banks to perfom self-assessment on ECB expectations in early 2021 ECB to fully review bank’s practices in 2022 Next supervisory stress test in 2022 to also focus on climate-related risks Separately, new ECB report shows that bank’s climate-related and environmental risk…
Frankfurt, 15 April 2019The EFFAS Commission on ESG (CESG)has developed a survey to collectrelevant information on ESG issues. The survey has been circulated to the Secretary Generals of EFFAS member societies, with the kind invitation to circulate it among relevant members and encourage them to participate. The link to the Survey https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/HL862NV will be active…