All ESG/SRI articles – Page 6
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White papers
From ‘smart chemo’ to gene therapy: The innovations transforming healthcare
From the invention of the stethoscope to the discovery of penicillin, many healthcare innovations have supported better health and well-being outcomes. Jasveet Brar, Darshan Rughani and Philip Kemp explore a selection of innovative technologies on the cusp of commercial inflection, with the potential to revolutionise the pharmaceutical and medical device industries specifically.
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Net-zero equities: resilience in an uncharted transition
The year 2023 in some ways brought a return to normality: slowing inflation, stabilising interest rates and, to some extent, more stable energy prices than in 2022. These positive developments fueled the strong performance of equity markets.
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Infrastructure debt – Financing a sustainable future
Private capital can be vital in meeting net zero emissions goals. This includes infrastructure debt which can be an attractive way for investors to achieve their long-term return and income objectives and at the same time help finance the assets needed urgently to support the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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Podcast
A Growing Gap: Exploring Progress on Global Decarbonisation
Exploring the widening gap between actual progress and policies on decarbonisation, and what would be needed to limit global warming to well below 2°C.
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2022 – 2023 Annual Stewardship Report: Aligning advocacy with actions
Welcome to the Nuveen 2022 – 2023 Stewardship Report. For more than 125 years, along with our parent company TIAA, we have helped millions of investors achieve long-term financial health.
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Targeting net zero: 5 reasons to rethink portfolio decarbonisation
Why should investors consider rethinking their approach to aligning to net zero? Because in our view many current solutions, which focus on today’s low-carbon companies, have real flaws.
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Podcast
What Tailor-Made Investing Looks Like
With a new calendar year ahead of us, many of us are taking the time to evaluate our investments against the current macro backdrop and seek to set ourselves up for long-term success.
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Building Momentum: 2024 Outlook for ESG Regulation
After a year of burgeoning regulatory development, we assess what may come next
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Natural Selection: Evaluating Debt-for-Nature Swaps
Investors are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of biodiversity and the urgency of preserving our planet’s natural capital—the stock of natural resources that underpin our economy and society, including minerals, soils, air, water and all living organisms. In response, bond issuers are launching more conservation-linked bond structures that can help indebted developing countries protect their vulnerable ecosystems. These structures require careful evaluation.
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Video
The Weather Is Changing for Climate-Focused Investors
As equity investors hunt for opportunities, why should they consider climate-focused investing?
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Biodiversity in the Balance
Biodiversity is gaining prominence in fundamental investment analysis across asset classes, based on a deeper understanding of its importance as a potentially material issue for investors. By using a coherent analytical approach, we believe it’s possible to incorporate nature-related risks and opportunities in research and investment processes that support the efforts of capital allocators to harvest meaningful returns over time.
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Global Sustainability Strategy – An update on how we deliver meaningful returns
The latest version of our Global Sustainability Strategy (GSS) updates our strategic approach to applying sustainability considerations to how we invest for clients and how we operate as an organisation. It includes areas where we have made progress since the first edition and our priorities for the coming two years.
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Video
Asia ex-Japan: Finding value in an undervalued opportunity set
The Asia ex-Japan region provides the perfect environment for our team of contrarian stock pickers.
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LOIM Circular Economy: three years of investing in the power of nature
Circular Economy, one of our high-conviction equity strategies, recently marked its three-year anniversary. The strategy seeks growth opportunities arising from the transition to a bio-based and circular economy, which harnesses and preserves nature and its valuable, regenerative resources.
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Sustainability watch: loss and damage fund, offshore wind, and cleantech
Our selection of sustainability news from December includes the launch of a new loss and damage fund for developing nations, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, and the deployment of cleantech projects.
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Impact measurement and reporting
Understanding the non-financial impact of their investments is an increasing concern for institutional investors. Almost three-quarters (74%) consider or plan to consider the environmental and societal impact of their investment decisions, according to Nuveen’s 2023 EQuilibrium survey of institutional investors around the world. This number is even higher (82%) for insurers.
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Podcast
Fixed on ESG, Ep. Ep. 20 – COP28: Dissecting Climate Progress and Pledges
A review of the takeaways from COP28, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, hosted in Dubai, UAE.
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COP28: So Near and Yet So Far
Though not enough to limit warming to 1.5°C, and weaker than some had hoped, the outcomes of the climate conference are better than many had feared.
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Aligning equity multifactor strategies with net zero objectives
Investing in ways that contribute to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and beyond is increasingly a concern for most investors, in particular institutional investors. For this reason, we have studied various approaches to aligning our multifactor equity strategies with net zero objectives.
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Podcast
Outerblue Talks Green – The rise of responsible investing in Asia
Asia faces distinct and complex challenges when it comes to the energy transition as it looks to balance economic development with the necessity to transition to a low carbon economy.