All ESG/SRI articles – Page 54
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White papersWhere the wild things are: Why investors should care about natural capital
Finance must wake up to the risks associated with biodiversity loss and the opportunities that arise from nature-friendly solutions, argue Eugenie Mathieu, Julie Zhuang and Jonathan Toub.
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Research ReportClimate change: How investors can help deliver a Just Transition
Climate change is well understood as a systemic risk, but there is less understanding of how the transition to a low-carbon economy might affect society
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White papersFactor investing: understanding your performance!
Multifactor strategies are based on investable portfolios, benchmarked against market capitalisation indices and tilted towards stocks with given characteristics (factors): they should be cheaper (value), more profitable (quality), less risky (low risk), and have outperformed in the past (momentum).
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White papersClimate Change Roundtable
Investors everywhere are facing the reality and urgency of climate change.
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WebinarInvesting Through Climate Risk
Across every asset class, investors are facing the reality and urgency of climate change and its associated risks.
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PodcastThe OUTThinking Investor Podcast
Modern capital markets move faster and are more complex than ever, bringing together participants with oftentimes clashing goals and constraints. But by gaining a richer understanding of the market’s ongoing evolution—from its remarkable origins to its tantalizing future—investors will be better equipped to navigate the changing dynamics of global financial markets.
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White papersThe Journey to Net Zero: From Greenflation to Greenium
As big events like November 2021’s COP26 climate conference show, climate change is the most pressing challenge of our generation. More than 30,000 people from over 200 countries will fly to Glasgow to urgently debate the path to net zero. With a third of all investments now sustainable, the momentum towards decarbonizing the globe is building.
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White papers10 Transformational Technologies Powering the 21st Century
Are we living through the most influential time ever? A hinge moment in history? There are those who argue that we are, as new technological discoveries are implemented faster than ever before.
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White papersConnecting net zero with nature positive
From global conference rooms to company boardrooms, there is growing understanding of the urgent need to include nature preservation in the global sustainability agenda. This is evidenced by the G7’s endorsement of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) this year, followed by the increasing recognition at COP26 of the role of nature-based solutions in combating climate change.
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White papersRecovery, risks and relationships
While interest rates are likely to creep up in the short term, the long-term structural impacts that have kept rates so low for so long are still in place.
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PodcastThe Future State of Real Estate Investing
As we wrap up on yet another atypical year across the global economy, we see many macro themes coming to the fore that investors are evaluating in the year ahead. Real estate, both in the public and private markets, can potentially act as a diversifier during times of uncertainty.
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White papersThe social transition: Investing for a more equitable world
Recognising that being a good corporate citizen is the right thing to do and pays off is something investors and the financial community need to think harder about, argue Vaidehee Sachdev and Matt Kirby.
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Asset Manager NewsPATRIZIA, on behalf of a South Korean consortium, sells Astro Tower, Brussels’ first green office tower, to Union Investment
PATRIZIA AG, a leading partner for global real assets, has sold the shares of the company owning Astro Tower, a prime office building in the heart of Brussels, on behalf of one of its single mandate institutional clients, AIP Asset Managment, a South Korean consortium.
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White papersThe wheels of a Circular Economy go round and round - N°2 The automotive sector: ready to step up a gear
The automotive sector has known a deep transformation over the last two decades. First, because the EU legislation has pushed automakers to better treat end-of-life vehicles by imposing high recycling, reusing and recovering rates. Secondly, because the fight against climate change and the rise of electrification are questioning the whole business-model and thus, companies have to reinvent themselves.
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White papersThe science behind net zero
In the final article in our three-part series on net zero and climate change [1], Alex Bernhardt takes a closer look at the science around carbon neutrality and keeping the rise in world temperatures to 1.5C.
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Asset Manager NewsPATRIZIA invests EUR 230m in turnkey Rotterdam distribution centre, the largest Dutch logistics property on record with strong ESG credentials
PATRIZIA AG, a leading partner for global real assets, has on behalf of its institutional clients invested in the EUR 230m turnkey acquisition of a 233,000 sqm distribution centre in the container hub of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest port, from Dutch logistics developer DHG. The acquisition, which represents the largest logistics investment on record in the Netherlands in terms of square metres, was made on behalf of PATRIZIA’s Logistik-Invest Europa III Fund and PATRIZIA PanEuropean.
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White papersThe Importance of “Kicking the Can”
Averting a fresh Ukraine crisis that would derail the global recovery means steering clear of both economic and military lanes.
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White papersThe Recent Performance of ESG Investing, the Covid-19 Catalyst and the Biden Effect
Acting as a responsible financial institution is a founding pillar of Amundi’s corporate strategy. This is demonstrated not only through our pledge to make ESG investing standard throughout our whole product range, but also through our commitment to ESG research in order to fully understand the responsible investment landscape.
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White papersLooking into 2022 with Federated Hermes
Global markets have seen significant volatility in 2021 driven by price inflation, expectations for interest rates, commodities shortages and covid-19 variants.
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White papersLessons from COP26: Why lasting impact of summit should be judged on COP27 commitments
Empty talk needs to be replaced with concrete agreements and targets, says Vicky Sins, climate and energy lead, World Benchmarking Alliance
