All ESG/SRI articles – Page 5
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White papersThe stories behind the numbers
While it’s obvious that companies comprise their numbers, less is known about the idiosyncratic factors that make companies special. RBC’s Global Equity team looks at some of the stories…
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ESG data takes centre stage in private debt investing
In the latest Private Debt Investor ESG Report, Churchill’s Mickey Weatherston reflects on ESG integration, assessment trends, investor data priorities and the need for a harmonized industry approach.
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Living Wage: Progress and headwinds
In the decade or so since the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) were established it has become increasingly accepted that companies have a fundamental responsibility to respect human rights in their operations and supply chains.
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ESG in EM Debt: An Evolving Conversation
The growing appetite for ESG investing has increasingly extended into the world of emerging market debt. In a quickly evolving landscape, determining the most appropriate way to apply an ESG framework to EM sovereign debt is key for investors, with a variety of options from indexed to bespoke solutions available.
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Podcast
‘Net zero will reorganise value chains’: Höhne-Sparborth joins Hymans Roberston podcast
With the transition to net zero a crucial investment theme, how can investors reduce exposure to climate risk while targeting growth opportunities?
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ESG Viewpoint: The challenges of assessing physical climate risk
Much of the investor focus on climate risk to date has been on managing ‘transition risk’, defined as the financial risk associated with changes in areas such as regulation, sentiment, or technology on the route to decarbonisation.
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COP27 – what happened?
Prior to the COP27 climate negotiations in Egypt, we set out our expectations on what the meeting might achieve. As we anticipated, there was intense focus in Sharm El-Sheikh on the impact of the changing climate, after another year of weather extremes. As also expected, the backdrop of rising costs and energy security provided the political headwinds to spur some progress.
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Amundi Pension Funds Letter n°16
December, the month where festive end-of-year preparations and celebrations shift into top gear, just as commentators become busy reflecting on the past year and making predictions for the next.
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Global Equity Investing in an Uncertain Age
Navigating the road ahead for global equities
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The Market Effect of Acute Biodiversity Risk: the Case of Corporate Bonds
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between biodiversity and companies, through the lens of corporate bonds. We focus on acute biodiversity events and address biodiversity as a risk, considering its looming losses.
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Driving toward new frontiers; Nuveen’s stewardship report
Welcome to the Nuveen 2021-22 Stewardship Report. For more than 120 years, along with our parent company TIAA, we have helped millions of investors achieve long-term financial health.
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The megatrends series: Financial ecosystems
Global megatrends are macroeconomic and geopolitical forces that are shaping our world and our collective futures in profound ways. The implications of these forces are broad and varied, and they will present us with both tremendous opportunities to seize, as well as extremely dangerous risks to mitigate.
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Ecosystem Growth: Japanese ESG indices and passive investing blossom
The Japanese sustainable market has bloomed in recent times, creating a demand to integrate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria into the core benchmark construction and passive investment strategies. In addition, it is increasing its emphasis on disclosure standards, regulations, and definitions.
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Capturing value in plastic waste
Today, the vast majority of plastic goes to waste, failing to tap into a potentially valuable resource. We consider the transition to a more circular plastic model and the key investment areas that show promise.
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Climate Investment Insights
Roads to Paris alignment - Climate Transition Pathways and Indices
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Thinking about ESG when making fund selections?
Helene Winch, Head of Responsible Investing, runs through the key ESG areas you should be thinking about when making investment fund selections.
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The S&P 500 ESG Index: Defining the Sustainable Core
The launch of the S&P 500 ESG Index in April 2019 signaled an evolution in sustainable investing. Indices based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) data were no longer simply a means for companies to declare their sustainability credentials or tools to manage tactical investments playing a minor role in investors’ portfolios.
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Enabling systematic engagement through index investing
Passive investing and sustainability engagement were historically deemed to be at best challenging, at worst incompatible. There is a growing realization that combining index investing and sustainability engagement is not only possible but can reinforce and mobilize significant global assets under management to enable collaborative engagement.
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COP27: 8 key takeaways
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) took place in a year of severe climate impacts as well as a host of humanitarian challenges from wars on multiple fronts and an uneven recovery from an ongoing pandemic to the growing food, energy, and cost of living crises.
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Meeting investors’ needs in Emerging Markets Fixed Income
Over the last four decades, emerging fixed income markets have become a mainstay of many global investment portfolios. These markets present investors and benchmark providers with a unique set of challenges and themes that directly inform index design.
