All ESG/SRI articles – Page 16
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Climate Transition: Choosing an Index
Climate transition strategies involve challenging implementation questions. Among the most important is choosing an index. This paper explores the trade-offs and makes a case for using standard market indexes.
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Why social infrastructure now?
Investors ready to take advantage of the perpetual benefits and new catalysts for social infrastructure can be rewarded financially, while creating much-needed social and environmental impact
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The cost of not acting is high
The world is facing an environmental crisis of unprecedented dimensions. Fighting climate change should be a high priority for humankind as it is closely linked to many other environmental challenges.
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Reconsidering the banks sector
Banks have been held widely in the credit side of our sustainable strategies, and selectively on the equity side, for the entirety of their history, reflecting the role that products such as mortgages, current accounts and savings play in society.
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The ‘blue economy’: ensuring the sustainable management of our marine and freshwater environment
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) expert My-Linh Ngo, BlueBay Head of ESG Investment & Portfolio Manager, RBC BlueBay Asset Management discusses the importance of the blue economy in building a sustainable future through public debt markets.
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Combining sustainability and outperformance with credit factor investing
What is the ex-ante impact of different sustainable investment approaches on the alpha of a credit portfolio? And what can investors do who want both outperformance and sustainable credit investments? Credit factor investing provides a solution to both questions.
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Where next for inflation?
Inflation is by far the most crucial investment consideration today, yet it’s not all bad news for long-term investors. In this paper, our Research, ESG and Investment teams explain the factors shaping their inflation outlook, the dynamics behind resilient equity markets, why ESG and sustainable development is here to stay despite short- term price pressures, and where to find investment opportunities in today’s uncertain environment.
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Investing in the sustainable transition
As we move into ESG 3.0, investors will need to look further to find investment opportunities. An area of interest is companies in a process of sustainable transition.
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Impact investing: why social action in real estate is as important as climate action
It is a movement that is hard to argue against. Impact investing, which the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) says can be defined as investment strategies that aim to ‘generate specific beneficial social or environmental effects in addition to financial gains’, has grown enormously in recent years.
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Making an impact with fixed income
Impact investing is an increasingly compelling consideration for core bond allocations
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Future mobility – investing for impact and sustainable change
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), transport has the highest reliance on fossil fuels of any sector, and accounted for 37% of global carbon dioxide emissions from end-use sectors in 2021. The replacement of traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) powered vehicles with electric vehicles (EV) is therefore a core component of the transition to a more sustainable future.
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The True Meaning of Sustainable Investing
Interest in sustainable investing has significantly increased in the past decade. Morningstar estimates the number of sustainable open-ended mutual funds and exchange-traded funds nearly tripled between 2014 and 2019.
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BMW case study
Following concern about the company’s lack of targets for its electric vehicle strategy, plus its misaligned lobbying with the Paris Agreement, it has demonstrated noticeable and ambitious improvements.
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Brazil: Lula 3.0 – Good news for climate and biodiversity?
Encompassing seven million square kilometres, the Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest forest formation, occupying around half of Brazil’s territory. According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Brazil is the world’s most biodiverse country.
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Investor engagement to tackle corporate lobbying is critical to addressing diet-related diseases
Delivering legislation, regulation and standards that foster sustainable and a more equitable development is central to tackling sustainability issues. One impediment is corporate lobbying designed to mitigate or even thwart effective policy changes. We urge other investors to join us in ramping up engagement with companies on this important topic.
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Unlocking the Investment Potential of “S” in ESG
Social issues are perhaps the most difficult to research and least understood by investors with an environmental, social and governance (ESG) focus. But the risks and opportunities they represent are growing, and investors need a way to step up to the challenge.
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AXA IM Stewardship Report 2022
Against a tumultuous backdrop that has seen misgivings emerge about the case for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing in certain parts of the world, we believe it is now more important than ever to positively influence company behaviour through effective and robust stewardship.
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Money, money, money: the Inflation Reduction Act
In the first of this two-part blog series, we review the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act on US real assets and consider how European governments might respond.
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ESG Thema #12 - Responsible Investing in Asia: Outlook 2023
Asia, home to 60% of the world’s population and one of the fastest growing economies, which account for over half of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, has its distinct challenges both in terms of economic development and transition towards an inclusive low-carbon economy.
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From Healthcare Real Estate To The Well-Being Society: new challenges for Europe
Enabling people to live in good health, and promoting well-being at all ages, are essential conditions for improving the quality of life.