All ESG/SRI articles – Page 76
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Investing For Growth And Prosperity: In Africa Sovereign Wealth Funds Focus On G, S And E
A research report on the key themes and challenges for Africa’s sovereign wealth funds.
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Board diversity matters, so let’s have more
Many studies have shown that having women on company boards of directors is good for business. For us as an asset manager, there is a direct link between weak corporate governance and the balance of power.
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George Walker on CNBC: Taking a Stand with NB Votes
George Walker, Chairman and CEO of Neuberger Berman, recently appeared on CNBC to discuss Neuberger Berman’s advance proxy voting disclosure initiative, NB Votes, whereby the firm discloses and publicly explains its voting rationale on select issues.
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Meeting Room Webcast: Sustainable Global Equity
Announcing the upcoming launch of our Sustainable Global Equity Strategy, join Martin Todd, Lead Portfolio Manager, Ingrid Kukuljan, Head of Impact & Sustainable Investing, and Henry Biddle, Deputy Portfolio Manager, as they discuss how the strategy seeks to target financial outperformance and positive outcomes through high-conviction investment companies leading the sustainability transition.
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Emerging Market Green Bonds - Report 2020
The pandemic and its multiple effects hit the global economy hard in 2020. Consecutive waves of infections and extended or renewed lockdowns and other social distancing measures not only depressed economic activity but also had profound social effects.
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Sustainability-linked fixed income – Beyond green bonds
Issuance of green bonds began more than 10 years ago in response to (institutional) investor concerns about climate change and its political and economic implications.[1] They have become a major pillar of an asset class of sustainability-linked fixed income securities that continues to grow.
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NB Votes: Increasing the Impact of our Proxies
This week’s guest writers are Jonathan Bailey and Caitlin McSherry from our ESG Investing team.
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Joana Setzer Q&A: On the climate litigation front line
Joana Setzer from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at LSE discusses the implications on governments and companies of the growing wave of climate litigation.
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Law and climate disorder: Understanding physical, transition and litigation risk
Major listed companies are finding themselves the target of legal action designed to make them move faster towards a lower carbon world. These cases could mark an inflection point; when the conversation turns toward specific responsibilities to move away from fossil fuels rather than broad commitments to change.
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EOS publishes white paper Fixing Fast Fashion
The fast fashion industry has thrived by constantly refreshing product lines and leveraging rapid response supply chains to meet consumer demand for the latest trends. But the low cost of many of these products encourages consumers to wear items only a handful of times before throwing them away.
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Net Zero: From Policy To Action - Martin Currie a Franklin Templeton specialist investment manager
Martin Currie’s ESG specialists identify the key challenges ahead in the journey to net zero.
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From Diversification to ESG: The Evolving Opportunity in ABS
Asset-backed securities can offer a number of benefits as part of a broader fixed income mandate—particularly given the strong structural protections, diversification benefits and advancements in ESG.
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KGAL places ESG residential real estate fund
First closing achieved in record time with equity commitments of 370 million euros
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Never waste a crisis: Lessons learned from COVID-19 for sustainable investment strategies
Panel discussion takeaways from “Sustainable Investment Strategies Post-COVID”
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Bridging the ESG Gap in China
As more international investors seek opportunities in China, it has raised awareness and interest in ESG. Our Michael Lai looks into the ESG challenges local businesses face.
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Temperature scores: an innovative tool for ESG fundamental investors
2021 will be a pivotal year to curb climate change. Although global CO2 emissions dropped 7% in 2020 due to the effects of Covid-19-related lockdowns, stronger action will be needed at the upcoming Conference of the Parties (COP) 26 to keep temperature increases below 2°C and towards 1.5°C.1
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Roaring or groaning ’20s for real estate?
A global pandemic kicked off the 2020s: A decade still feeling the effects of the 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis and preceded by years of deep social, environmental and technological change in which inequality increased, extreme political views became more prevalent, climate action took centre stage for the first time and digital technology became ubiquitous.
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An update on our ESG Scores
Countries can emerge stronger economically from the COVID-19 pandemic through green and sustainable investing. Global Macro Views highlights five country case studies.
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The aviation industry: Five reasons for resilience
Last year was a truly awful time for global aviation. The COVID-19 pandemic brought about the biggest disruption to the global aviation industry in its entire history.