Tag: green washing
Consumers punish suspected greenwashing immediately
Dusseldorf If doubts arise about the credibility of their sustainability promises, companies can quickly lose sales. This is shown by a survey by the Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions (NIM),…
EU makes greenwashing a million-dollar risk for companies
Products The EU draft stipulates that all environmental advertising claims must be certified in advance by an independent testing body. Dusseldorf Many companies still advertise with labels such as “climate…
Prosecutors are investigating ex-DWS boss Asoka Wöhrmann
Asoka Woehrmann Since January, the public prosecutor’s office has been examining whether the former DWS boss has something to blame for the greenwashing allegations. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The public prosecutor’s…
Fund company DWS is negotiating with the public prosecutor
DWS logo The public prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt is still investigating against the Deutsche Bank subsidiary because of the greenwashing affair. (Photo: REUTERS) Frankfurt, Cologne According to Handelsblatt information, the…
DWS board experiences defeat at the annual general meeting
DWS Annual General Meeting One board was punished and only received a comparatively small proportion of votes in the discharge. (Photo: imago images/Hannelore Förster) Frankfurt Greenwashing allegations and the topic…
Big investors want to vote against compensation report
DWS building in Frankfurt The fund subsidiary of Deutsche Bank is facing a restless general meeting. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The fund company DWS is facing a restless general meeting. According…
Influential shareholder advisors criticize the severance package for ex-DWS boss Asoka Wöhrmann
Asoka Woehrmann The former DWS CEO received a severance payment of 8.15 million euros. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The fund company DWS is threatened with new trouble at the general meeting.…
Greenpeace criticizes the remuneration system of DWS
Frankfurt Greenpeace claims to have discovered a piquant connection between the Deutsche Bank fund subsidiary DWS and the allegations of greenwashing, i.e. an exaggerated orientation of DWS towards sustainability. To…
DWS refrains from advertising after consumer protection lawsuit
Protest against DWS Greenpeace activists protest against so-called “greenwashing” in the foyer of the DWS Group, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt After a lawsuit by the Baden-Württemberg…
Impact investing: The boom harbors dangers
factory in Bangladesh Impact investing allows investors to invest in more jobs in emerging markets. (Photo: mauritius images / Zakir hossain chowdhury zakir / Alamy / Alamy Stock Photos) Frankfurt…
DWS: Sustainable Investment – Not all ESG funds are climate neutral
Frankfurt Greenpeace activists protest against the so-called greenwashing in the foyer of the DWS group. (Photo: dpa) Berlin, Dusseldorf In its advertising promises, the fund provider DWS takes the needs…
Great turmoil in ESG funds: More and more gradations
Sunset over a wind farm According to a recently published regulatory standard, only those funds that invest 100 percent in sustainable projects can call themselves sustainable. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Many…
Great turmoil in ESG funds: More and more gradations
Sunset over a wind farm According to a recently published regulatory standard, only those funds that invest 100 percent in sustainable projects can call themselves sustainable. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Many…
DWS & Greenwashing: Consumer advice center sues Deutsche Bank fund subsidiary
Frankfurt New legal trouble for DWS: The consumer advice center in Baden-Württemberg has filed a lawsuit against the fund subsidiary of Deutsche Bank with the Frankfurt Regional Court. With the…
Difficult start for Stefan Hoops
New DWS boss Stefan Hoops Employees report that he should take hundreds of pages of reading material with him over the weekend – and then email a question about page…
Central banks need to “get the rods out”
Today France, and with it the free world, celebrates July 14 as the day of the bourgeois revolution. With the battle cry “Liberté, egalité, fraternité”, the Parisians stormed the Bastille…
IG Metall discovers the “full throttle” tactic
the “concerted action” by the largest industrial union, IG Metall, consists of demanding eight percent more wages for 3.8 million employees. That would be the strongest increase since 2008. The…
Investors withdraw money from funds
wind energy Funds that take into account environmental and social aspects as well as corporate management collected around 482 billion euros net last year. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The long-booming funds…
SEC investigates Goldman funds
Goldman Sachs According to US media, two funds of the US bank Goldman Sachs are the focus of new greenwashing investigations by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. (Photo: Reuters)…
The new boss should review the fund company’s strategy
Frankfurt A look at the schedule shows how much the raid and the promptly announced farewell to CEO Asoka Wöhrmann shook up the plans of the fund company DWS: Actually,…