Sustainability

The fund industry plays a key role on the road to greater sustainability. It can become even more important, but the right course must be set.

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The EU is currently developing rules for sustainable investment. Through guiding capital flows, it aims to support sustainable economic sectors and production processes. The EU's goal is a climate neutral economy by 2050. The fund industry, as an important financial intermediary, thus has a key role to play and is happy to play it. As early as 2012, the German fund association BVI introduced 'Guidelines for Responsible Investing'.

However, to help the EU meet its ambitious climate change target, asset managers need to obtain the relevant data from companies for their stock selection, preferably from all companies worldwide. What asset managers do not need are rigid guidelines that mean that investors are no longer free to decide what they want to invest in. This would prevent an intensive debate on the sustainability of the companies in which investments are to be made and would replace it with a regulatory box ticking exercise. Ultimately, this would mean that the transition to more sustainable investments would not be dynamic and lose momentum.

News

Sustainability

17/11/2020

Snapshot Sustainability

The assets of sustainable funds continue to grow. More on this in our new Snapshot Sustainability

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Sustainability

10/9/2020

Sustainable funds mark a new record high of over EUR 100 billion in assets

The ESG fund market in Germany is growing fast: assets invested in sustainable funds have now overtaken the EUR 100 billion mark, around half of which...

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Sustainability

2/9/2020

Sustainability: New impetus for the German EU Council Presidency

The German Investment Funds Association BVI urges the German government to set a self-confident course for EU sustainability regulation. ‘Whether...

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Positions

Sustainability

1/9/2020

Nachhaltigkeit in der Finanzmarktregulierung: Vorschläge des BVI für EU-Maßnahmen während der deutschen Ratspräsidentschaft

Sustainability

17/7/2020

BVI Position on the EC Consultation on the Renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy

Sustainability

8/6/2020

Public consultation on the revision of the nonfinancial reporting directive

Sustainability

30/4/2020

Stellungnahme des BVI zum Zwischenbericht des Sustainable Finance-Beirats „Bedeutung der nachhaltigen Finanzwirtschaft für die große Transformation“

Sustainability

20/4/2020

BVI’s suggestions for the Commission Delegated Regulation on a climate change mitigation and adaptation taxonomy Response to the EU consultation on the inception impact assessment

Sustainability

17/4/2020

JRC Technical Report 2.0: Development of EU Ecolabel criteria for Retail Products

Sustainability

21/11/2019

Regulierung von Nachhaltigkeit - Grundthesen des BVI

Sustainability

8/11/2019

Key messages by BVI in view of the upcoming trilogues on the EU Taxonomy Regulation

Sustainability

30/10/2019

BVI-Position: BaFin-Merkblatt zum Umgang mit Nachhaltigkeitsrisiken

Sustainability

16/9/2019

Call for feedback on TEG report on EU Taxonomy

Sustainability

4/9/2019

BVI’s call for “Quick Fixing” the dates of application of the Disclosure Regulation

Sustainability

29/7/2019

Survey on collection of evidence on undue short-term pressure from the financial sector on corporations

Sustainability

6/5/2019

JRC Technical Report v1.0 – Draft criteria proposal for the product scope and ecological criteria

Sustainability

3/4/2019

Feedback on the TEG preliminary recommendations for an EU Green Bond Standard

Sustainability

22/2/2019

Feedback on the first round climate mitigation activities

Sustainability

22/2/2019

Feedback on the usability of the taxonomy

Sustainability

19/2/2019

BVI’s response to the ESMA consultation paper on integrating sustainability risks and factors in the UCITS Directive and AIFMD (ESMA34-45-569)

Sustainability

19/2/2019

BVI’s response to the Consultation Paper “On integrating sustainability risks and factors in MiFID II” published by ESMA on 19 December 2018 (ESMA35-43-1210)

Sustainability

30/1/2019

Consultation Paper on Technical Advice on the integration of sustainability risks and factors in the delegated acts under Solvency II and IDD

Sustainability

30/1/2019

BVI-Stellungnahme zum Entwurf des Corporate Governance Kodex 2018/2019

Sustainability

25/1/2019

EU Ecolabel for Financial Products: 1st Stakeholder Questionnaire on the product scope and criteria definition

Sustainability

23/8/2018

European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Initiative – Regulation on disclosures relating to sustainable investments and risks

Sustainability

22/8/2018

European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Initiative – Establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment: Proposal to amend Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 on low carbon benchmarks and positive carbon impact benchmarks

Sustainability

21/6/2018

European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Initiative – MiFID II suitability requirements BVI’s view

Sustainability

22/1/2018

Public consultation on institutional investors and asset managers' duties regarding sustainability

Sustainability

11/12/2017

BVI’s view on responsible investment

Sustainability

5/9/2017

Questionnaire by the High Level Expert Group on sustainable finance interim report

Sustainability

24/3/2016

BVI’s response to the Commisson’s Public consultation on long-term and sustainable investment

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