The week’s best fund management articles

Vanguard pledges emissions cuts, buyout groups target investment sector, 13 ESG shareholder resolutions to watch, and Hamilton Lane mocks Oxford professor
Vanguard pledges to slash emissions by 2030

World’s second-largest asset manager and 42 other big investors make net zero commitment

Buyout groups fuel investment sector M&A

Reverence and GTCR’s purchase of Wells Fargo AM is biggest to date for private equity groups

ESG battles to watch during this year’s AGM season

Investors will be demanding action on issues from climate change to workplace diversity

Private equity champion mocks Oxford academic over criticism

Hamilton Lane denies targeting professor who published study that rocked industry

Russia sanctions — easy to announce, hard to implement

US laws make it simple to impose barriers, but difficult to remove them when behaviour improves