All ESG/SRI articles – Page 78
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Lean on me: How can bond investors influence government climate action?
The coronavirus epidemic has further accelerated the rise of ESG into the investment mainstream. As deficits skyrocket, bond investors have an opportunity to engage with governments on climate change, argues Thomas Dillon.
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Promising a future: Edition 2021 – Our commitment to responsible investing in real assets
The 2021 edition of REPM’s responsible investing brochure, highlights how responsible investment is integral to our investment philosophy and approach. This year, we have transformed the overall format with a clear delineation between prose content to illustrate our whole business’s efforts.
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*The blue economy in numbers*
Growth, employment, consumption, renewable energy…These are all indicators that reflect the rapid rise of the ‘blue economy’ and its growing contribution to business and industry, better living standards and the development of a more responsible global economy.
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Responsible Returns: Better Stocks for a Better World
Many equity investors want to help create social benefits while generating strong returns. Achieving these twin goals requires a coherent investment approach.
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The Investment Podcast: Investment in music copyrights? Now, that’s music to my ears
How do we find a private special situations investment? What kind of work do we do before making such an investment? What is our role once the initial investment is completed?
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Impact and innovation: Catella Residential’s shield for the Black Swan’s shadow
The fundamental risk and return assumptions upon which most of the real estate investment industry’s business models are founded are fatally flawed in a world where multiplying supposedly rare extreme events, from the Global Financial Crisis, to the Covid-19 pandemic and the oncoming tsunami of Climate Change, are turning markets on their heads, Xavier Jongen, Managing Director of Catella Residential Investment Management said in an interview for IPE Real Assets.
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Copper-The Key to Electronification
Accelerated by the current COVID-19 global pandemic, fighting climate change has, once again, become a top priority around the world. US President Joe Biden is set to introduce a green infrastructure and clean energy plan which was initially estimated at $2 trillion.
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Inequality: Causes, policy response and market implications
Global income equality has improved over the last 40 years, but the story in advanced economies is less positive. We look at the key drivers of this phenomenon and their implications, as well as the economic outlook. We argue this trend will force global companies to embrace ESG criteria at a faster speed, with the fast movers likely to be outperformers.
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What technologies do we need to get to net zero?
Meeting Paris Agreement climate change targets means tackling the harder-to-decarbonise areas of the economy with technologies that don’t yet exist at scale.
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Hell, Heaven & the Next Bonanza of Mispriced Assets
While markets focus on post-pandemic recovery, regulators have been sounding the alarm on the need to price in long-term climate risk.
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Core Matters Inequality: Causes, policy response and market implications
Over the last decade, since the end of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), more and more adverse “side effects” of previously hailed economic, technological and political “megatrends” have come to the fore.
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Private credit markets – optimism grows, but caution is warranted
Activity levels in many private credit markets have unsurprisingly picked up over recent quarters as public markets bounced back, adding to the robust and growing pipeline of opportunities we are seeing across the breadth of the asset universe.
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ESG in Action: Improving Climate Change Models for Investments
Gauging the potential impacts of climate change on a company’s valuation or portfolio performance is extremely difficult. At AB, we’ve partnered with Columbia University’s Earth Institute to conduct an extensive review of existing climate change scenario-analysis providers and their various approaches.
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Introducing our new sustainability hub
Since 1983, Sustainable Wealth Creation has been our sole purpose. We aim to change investment for better, forever, for all.
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ESG in Equities: Identifying Winners in the Energy Transition
Clean energy and anti-pollution initiatives will continue to impact the equity investment landscape—but not all companies will be winners, and careful analysis will be needed to identify those that stand to benefit and those that may see a threat to their business model.
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Podcast: A clear green premium
Our Head of ESG, Ed Dixon, recently joined Blackstock Consulting on a PropCast episode to launch their new series of ESG insights with industry leaders.
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*What you need to know about the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration*
The United Nations (UN) Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (hereafter the UN decade), which will be launched on World Environment Day (June 5), aims to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems on every continent and in every ocean.
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Net Zero through investments: A pilot for intermediary target setting
Decarbonization of credit portfolios could play a major part in helping investors to support the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
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Spotlight on environmental challenges: targeting solutions for the planet through impact investing
Ben Constable-Maxwell, Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing at M&G Investments, explains how active investors can target innovative solutions for the planet by investing in listed equities.
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Women Entrepreneurs And The Benefits Of Equal Access To Capital?
Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton CEO and Sara Araghi, Franklin Templeton Venture Partner Director, explore the gender parity gap in women-owned businesses that still exists today—and the opportunity in the investment world.