All ESG/SRI articles – Page 85
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Asset Manager News
GLP Real Estate Funds Achieve Green Star Status in 2020 GRESB Assessment
GLP J-REIT achieved a five-star ranking, the highest level of achievement for ESG performance
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Benchmarking sustainability
The EU’s taxonomy – a classification tool to identify which activities are sustainable and under which circumstances – can play an important role in de-risking portfolios by reducing investments in increasingly obsolete, unpopular or unappealing carbon-intensive businesses. Enhancing the focus on carbon neutrality is an essential ingredient on the path to a sustainable economy.
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Sustainable investing – challenges and best practices
In the midst of nearly unprecedented market volatility, sustainable business practices are proving their mettle. Companies with strong stakeholder relationships, a deep commitment to employees, smaller carbon footprints and a longer-term focus are weathering the downturn significantly better than those without such standards. While no one would have chosen these particular testing grounds, the results are clear: sustainability has real-world consequences.
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Central Banks: leading the path towards Impact Investing
Central Banks are right now accelerating a tectonic shift. This summer at Jackson Hole, Fed Chairman, Mr. Powell has set-up the new objectives of the FED: inclusive employment is now key. As stated, “Inflation that is persistently too low can pose serious risks to the economy”1 and an inclusive employment2 is one way to solve it; it leads the FED to “a focus on inequality”3 with an attention paid on education as “people who don’t have advanced skills now have less ability to profit from the technology that is everywhere in our economy”4.
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ESG investing in Asia - an invisible evolution
Sustainable and responsible investing is fast becoming one of the most important investment criteria globally, and in Asia, while the uptake has been slower, this trend is growing. Moreover, sustainability is now also seen as an important economic driver for investment performance.
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Impact investing: a key role to play in reshaping the future
Today, the world is confronting the global coronavirus pandemic, which has put a severe strain on health systems and economies worldwide.
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Hydrogen: science fiction made real?
Fourteen member states of the European Union (EU) have already included a strategy for the use of hydrogen as part of their plans to support the post COVID lockdown economic recovery plans. David Czupryna, Head of ESG Development at Candriam, writes that the recent investment package of EUR15bn by the German and French governments is a serious step but only one of many required, with a lot of investment and opportunities still to come.
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Hidden ESG gems: the “improvers” philosophy
Traditional alpha opportunities tend to be found in underappreciated areas of the market where an expected improvement in fundamentals will lead to a rerating of the stock. The same can be said for ESG investing: companies that embrace and improve their ESG profile will be rewarded by the market.
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Institutional Investors – are you embracing the evolution in responsible investing?
The asset management industry is experiencing an evolution which has been a long time coming – the volume has been turned up on responsible investing and institutional investors are at the heart of this transition. The global pandemic and high-level concerns around climate change have brought a new sense of awareness, the knowledge of long-term risks and opportunities associated with environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.
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Thermal Coal: Aligning Policy with Emerging Reality
In seeking to curb client exposure to a key carbon source, our team’s thermal coal policy acknowledges distinct characteristics found within the emerging markets.
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Outlook 2021 – Future investment opportunities: green hydrogen
In efforts to transition to a low-carbon or even zero-emissions economy, green hydrogen – a source of energy that is odourless and produces only water when burned – can play a major role, making it a key investment opportunity of the future. Producing this fossil-free fuel at scale will require setting up an entirely new industry from scratch.
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Your Questions Answered by Impact Opportunities
Your Questions Answered: a quarterly Q&A series featuring the top 10 questions that clients and prospective clients ask our investment teams.
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Electric vehicles: reaching a tipping point
Automakers were placed under considerable pressure this year by global lockdowns that brought the industry to a standstill. Yet even amid the coronavirus-induced turmoil, firms have continued to spend considerable amounts on electric vehicle (EV) technology. Why is this, and how are automakers positioning themselves for an all-electric future?
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Pandemic scrutiny brings purpose to the fore
Government support for companies during the Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated why all businesses need to maintain a social licence to operate underpinned by a corporate purpose.
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Asset Manager News
BNP Paribas REIM Gains Sri Certification For Its BNP Paribas Diversipierre Fund
The BNP Paribas REIM Diversipierre “OPCI” is one of the first real estate funds to be certified with the new SRI (Socially Responsible Investment) label, introduced on July 23, 2020. It is now possible to combine Real Estate with Responsible Savings.
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Takeaways from our investment outlook: Legacy of the lockdown
In our outlook, we seek to help investors navigate the next phases of the pandemic, its legacy, and the ensuing economic recovery. We also consider how solutions to the climate crisis can be found at the same time as the world tackles the social and economic problems laid bare by the pandemic.
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Climate Change Acts As Catalyst To Green Bond Market Growth
David Zahn, Head of European Fixed Income at Franklin Templeton, discusses the rising demand for environmentally conscious investments. He highlights exciting developments in the green bond market, particularly in Europe, which is at the vanguard of sustainable investing.
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Emerging woes
China and India are jostling for greater geopolitical influence, within the emerging world and beyond. Their ambitions are manifold. For instance, China aims to lead the world in AI technology, India to take China’s manufacturing mantle. But over the long run, they won’t achieve their aims through armed conflict on some high Himalayan glacier.
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Costing climate change
Climate change will cause enormous damage to economies, especially in the emerging world. People in China could be 25 per cent poorer by the end of the century than if there were no further climate change if we do nothing more to slow the rise in global temperature. For Brazil and India the shortfall is likely to exceed 60 per cent, according to modelling by a team of environmental economists at Oxford University’s Smith School in a new report sponsored by Pictet Asset Management.