Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has appointed Kurt Morriesen as its new head of investment stewardship.
Morriesen, who joins the firm in January 2022, will lead LGIM's global investment stewardship team, focusing on "raising market standards and best practice to hold companies to account". He joins LGIM from the United Nations Development Programme, where he served as senior adviser for impact investments and SDGs since 2018. Before that, he worked in impact investment and ESG strategy experience in various international organisations, such as the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, UN-PRI, GIZ and the Inter-American Development Bank. Newton IM poaches sustainability head ...
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