Climate change action among schemes surges four-fold
European pensions funds’ awareness of, and desire for, action on climate change related investment risk has surged, Mercer says.
The consultant's 2020 European Asset Allocation insights report - which surveyed 927 institutional investor clients across 12 countries during the final quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of this year...
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