All ESG articles – Page 25
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Investing Through Climate Risk in Emerging Markets Debt
In this Q&A from the Nordic Fund Selection Journal, Kawtar Ed-Dahmani and Ashwinder Bakhshi discuss where they’re seeing the most material effects from climate change across emerging markets debt today—and what they’re anticipating going forward.
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ESG and inflation: An inconvenient truth?
When it comes to ESG investing, we need to talk about the inflationary elephant in the room says Martin Todd, Portfolio Manager for Global Equity ESG.
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Podcast
Biodiversity: Episode 5
The world is in the midst of a sixth mass species extinction. The financial services industry and business has vital role to play in addressing the crisis.
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ETF Observations on Russia
Investors are reminded within the current environment to take a broad perspective across a variety of asset classes and geographies and to weigh short-term developments against longer-term factors.
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EOS Engagement Plan 2022-2024
Our engagement plan identifies 12 key themes and 37 related sub-themes. We find this breadth of coverage is necessary to reflect the diversity of the issues affecting companies in our global engagement programme.
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Amazon case study
Amazon has committed to be 100% net zero across its operations by 2040 and continues to improve sustainability reporting aligned to its business strategy. EOS welcomes the company’s greater willingness to engage with us and other stakeholders recently and its positive response.
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Research Report
Sustainability Report 2021
In our 30th year as a business, we welcome you to our tenth annual Sustainability Report (the Report). This report relates to the business activities of our managed property funds and assets for the financial year ending 30 June 2021 (FY21).
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Asset Manager News
Swiss Life - Insights: March 2022
The Swiss Life Asset Managers’ European Thematic Cities Index (TCI) compares European cities across the five Cs. It identifies those most likely to be resilient in the face of unrelenting structural change as well as their individual strengths and weaknesses. We translate the five Cs into city specific themes that resilient cities will need.
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Volatility, value and variants: 360°, Q1 2022
In this latest edition of 360°, Stephane Michel, Head of Fixed Income, Multi Asset Credit Solutions, and our team of specialist investors consider the likely shape of markets in a post-pandemic world.
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Video
PAT Cast #1: What exactly is impact investing?
The term ‘impact investing’ has been around for several years but is getting an increasing amount of traction and attention recently. In the first edition of our podcast, the PAT Cast, we put the spotlight on this sustainable form of investing and ask how it works, we examine the potential benefits for investors and we offer a glimpse into the future.
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Adidas case study
Adidas has achieved certification from the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), affirming that its emissions reduction targets are aligned with a 1.5°C scenario. EOS continue to engage with the company on its circularity strategy.
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ESG in focus
In this month’s instalment of our visual series on topical data themes, we look at some of the major ESG trends and metrics of the last few years.
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‘Greenflation’ – Navigating the climate policy, oil price and inflation nexus
Given the relationship between climate policies, oil prices and inflation and the difficulties in managing inflation through interest rate policy, it is worth taking a closer look at the dynamics involved. How might climate policies, oil prices and inflation evolve given the outlook for oil? To what extent are oil prices and consumer price inflation actually linked?
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ESG Thema #8 - Financing the energy transition in Asia
Energy transition is critical in the fight against climate change and global warming, and Asia has a big role to play. Where more than half of the world’s population reside, Asia consumes over 40% of global energy while releasing over half of global carbon emissions as of 2020.
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Asset Manager News
UBS-AM wins Real Asset Manager of the Year
UBS Asset Management (UBS-AM) is proud to announce that it has been awarded Real Asset Manager of the Year in the 2022 Insurance Asset Risk Awards.
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Deka Immobilien makes its first investment in Seattle
Deka Immobilien started the New Year by making its largest single acquisition, outside of Germany to date, in the US. The company acquired the Google campus “Lakefront Blocks 25 & 31” in the South Lake Union neighbourhood of Seattle for USD 802 Mio.
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DBS case study
EOS communicated to DBS investor concerns about sustainable palm oil production and pressed for an improved palm oil financing policy for existing borrowers. We were pleased to see DBS improved its palm oil financing policy for all customers, requiring a “No Deforestation, no Peat, no Exploitation” commitment, or principles and criteria of the RSPO for all its existing and new borrowers.
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BAE Systems case study
BAE Systems has accelerated its societal and environmental ambitions with key commitments regarding its workforce and climate.
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Getting along – Can investors influence geopolitics to improve climate action?
The outcome of the 2021 COP26 climate conference showed that, despite nations planning their own environmental efforts, collective climate action is difficult to foster. What does this mean for investors? Is there any way governments can be swayed into working together more effectively?
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IPUT Real Estate and A&L Goodbody announce plan to create Ireland’s most sustainable building at North Wall Quay
North Wall Quay is being designed to be Ireland’s lowest carbon office development, achieving a 60% reduction in embodied carbon compared to a new construction project Re-generation of North Wall Quay to provide A&L Goodbody with the most sustainable headquarters in Dublin IPUT to accommodate A&L Goodbody within its ...