All ESG/SRI articles – Page 108
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Interview: Investing for Returns Can Support Sustainable Development
Can investing for market-rate returns contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals?
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ESG: What Institutional Investors Are Saying About Sustainable Investing
At a Neuberger Berman conference, institutional investors discussed current trends in ESG investing.
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Impact investing through sustainable financing: integrating ESG into real asset debt strategies
With more than 15 years’ experience of integrating environmental, social and governance (‘ESG’) analysis into listed asset investments, BNP Paribas Asset Management (‘BNPP AM’) has extended its approach to the real asset financing strategies launched last year by its Private Debt & Real As- sets investment group.
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Responsible investing’s ‘Big Bang’ has lost none of its spark
The COP21 Paris Conference in 2015 was undoubtedly climate change’s ‘big bang’, but nevertheless a certain amount of scepticism greeted the legislation. After all, many had questions about how forms would integrate environmental, social and govern- ance (ESG) criteria into traditional asset manage- ment models.
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Carbon Footprints: Where do they lead?
The world is changing. Investors can no longer look to existing strategies and indexes – clearly representative of the “old” economy – to be sufficient during the current transition towards the “new”. This is especially true regarding environmental issues in light of the Paris Agreement, the recent UN Sustainable Development Goals becoming standard for investment strategy assessments, and increasing public and regulatory pressure.
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How index investors can change the future
There are multiple ways for ‘tracker’ funds to help foster better financial and societal outcomes, says Meryam Omi, Head of Sustainability and Responsible Investment Strategy at Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM)
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The Pillars of impact investing
The concept of ESG-aware invest- ing is now well understood, although it is delivered in varying forms. The investment industry is now taking this one step further and embracing impact investing, an approach that is well established in the world of philanthropy, family offices, non- governmental organisations and social enterprises, but is less well understood in the mainstream.
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Managing and Measuring Impact in Social Infrastructure
Investing in social infrastructure in Europe can lead to positive impact-based outcomes for communities and the environment. By bringing impact- focused private capital to the social infrastructure space, the community and environmental performance of these assets can be markedly improved. Our Real Assets team proposes a three-step framework that allow not just measurement, but management of impact from social infrastructures.
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Impact investing & the global microfinance sector
According to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), impact investing is investments made into companies, organisations and funds with the intention to generate measurable social and environmental impact alongside financial return.
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Aggressive tax optimisation: what is the best ESG approach?
Between 100 and 240 billion euro per year. This is what aggressive tax planning costs governments in lost revenue.
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Global Macro Shifts: Environmental, Social and Governance Factors in Global Macro Investing
The world of finance professionals has recently begun to attribute much greater and explicit importance to the environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in investment decisions.
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How to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals through savings and investments
With increasing interest from clients to know how asset managers can help them contribute to the UN SDGs, we take a closer look at some of the strategies that can be deployed to achieve this.
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Shareholder Activism: Why Should Investors Care?
Institutional investors have large and diversified portfolios with substantial company ownership and strong incentives to monitor and influence the firm’s business. Active ownership is becoming a key component of their investment process.
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Daisuke Nomoto: Japan - more tailwinds than headwinds for 2018
With GDP on a sustained growth track, supported by structural reforms and the Bank of Japan’s accommodative monetary policy, we maintain a positive outlook for the region.
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Reaction: Italian election
The Italian election result looks messy, but we do not believe that the chances of Italy leaving the eurozone have gone up materially.
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Responsible Investment Quarterly: Q4 2017
On the heels of two good years in the bond market, the best days for fixed income are likely behind us.
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Holding Active Management to a Higher Standard
Data points cannot come close to telling the full story of William Blair’s approach to active management; our story is one defined by our constant evolution.
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Incorporating Environmental, Social and Governance Factors into Sovereign Bond Analysis
John Beck, SVP Director of Global Fixed Income, discusses how ESG factors are incorporated into sovereign bond analysis and why such factors are increasingly important for portfolios he and his team manage at Franklin Templeton.
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Technology and ‘mega-trends’ to drive US equity performance
US equities have outperformed global equities since the beginning of the recovery because the US economy was initially the sole engine of global growth, as European countries wrestled with the Eurozone crisis.
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The UK’s demise is overstated
UK equities reached all-time highs in 2017, but relative to world stocks (in US dollar terms) they were laggards.