FTSE index to highlight investor climate risk

James S Murray
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"Tilted" index ratings to help investors identify those firms facing the lowest climate risks

With the BP crisis in the Gulf of Mexico having thrown the spotlight on institutional investors' cavalier approach to environmental risk, FTSE Group today launched new indices designed to help investors...

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