All ESG/SRI articles – Page 95
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White papersESG: What Institutional Investors Are Saying About Sustainable Investing
At a Neuberger Berman conference, institutional investors discussed current trends in ESG investing.
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White papersImpact investing through sustainable financing: integrating ESG into real asset debt strategies
With more than 15 years’ experience of integrating environmental, social and governance (‘ESG’) analysis into listed asset investments, BNP Paribas Asset Management (‘BNPP AM’) has extended its approach to the real asset financing strategies launched last year by its Private Debt & Real As- sets investment group.
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White papersResponsible investing’s ‘Big Bang’ has lost none of its spark
The COP21 Paris Conference in 2015 was undoubtedly climate change’s ‘big bang’, but nevertheless a certain amount of scepticism greeted the legislation. After all, many had questions about how forms would integrate environmental, social and govern- ance (ESG) criteria into traditional asset manage- ment models.
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White papersCarbon Footprints: Where do they lead?
The world is changing. Investors can no longer look to existing strategies and indexes – clearly representative of the “old” economy – to be sufficient during the current transition towards the “new”. This is especially true regarding environmental issues in light of the Paris Agreement, the recent UN Sustainable Development Goals becoming standard for investment strategy assessments, and increasing public and regulatory pressure.
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White papersHow index investors can change the future
There are multiple ways for ‘tracker’ funds to help foster better financial and societal outcomes, says Meryam Omi, Head of Sustainability and Responsible Investment Strategy at Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM)
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White papersThe Pillars of impact investing
The concept of ESG-aware invest- ing is now well understood, although it is delivered in varying forms. The investment industry is now taking this one step further and embracing impact investing, an approach that is well established in the world of philanthropy, family offices, non- governmental organisations and social enterprises, but is less well understood in the mainstream.
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White papersImpact investing & the global microfinance sector
According to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), impact investing is investments made into companies, organisations and funds with the intention to generate measurable social and environmental impact alongside financial return.
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White papersAggressive tax optimisation: what is the best ESG approach?
Between 100 and 240 billion euro per year. This is what aggressive tax planning costs governments in lost revenue.
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White papersHow to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals through savings and investments
With increasing interest from clients to know how asset managers can help them contribute to the UN SDGs, we take a closer look at some of the strategies that can be deployed to achieve this.
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White papersShareholder Activism: Why Should Investors Care?
Institutional investors have large and diversified portfolios with substantial company ownership and strong incentives to monitor and influence the firm’s business. Active ownership is becoming a key component of their investment process.
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White papersDaisuke Nomoto: Japan - more tailwinds than headwinds for 2018
With GDP on a sustained growth track, supported by structural reforms and the Bank of Japan’s accommodative monetary policy, we maintain a positive outlook for the region.
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White papersReaction: Italian election
The Italian election result looks messy, but we do not believe that the chances of Italy leaving the eurozone have gone up materially.
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White papersResponsible Investment Quarterly: Q4 2017
On the heels of two good years in the bond market, the best days for fixed income are likely behind us.
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White papersHolding Active Management to a Higher Standard
Data points cannot come close to telling the full story of William Blair’s approach to active management; our story is one defined by our constant evolution.
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White papersTechnology and ‘mega-trends’ to drive US equity performance
US equities have outperformed global equities since the beginning of the recovery because the US economy was initially the sole engine of global growth, as European countries wrestled with the Eurozone crisis.
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White papersThe UK’s demise is overstated
UK equities reached all-time highs in 2017, but relative to world stocks (in US dollar terms) they were laggards.
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White papers2018 Economic and Market Outlook: Risk On
Investors will have to work harder, take more risk and get an information edge. Nuveen identifies pockets of opportunity across public and private markets.
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White papersGenerating social alpha without sacrificing investment returns
In recent years, European investor engagement with Responsible Investment (RI) has gathered momentum. Some of this growth could be a result of the open and proactive attitude to RI among European policymakers and institutions. But impact investment has also soared in popularity as European investors have begun to consider the effects of their invested capital more deeply.
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White papersEuropean social bond strategy
A European credit strategy with an innovative social focus that unlocks the full potential of corporate bonds to deliver both financial and social returns.
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White papersThe food challenge: How can one achieve greater transparency?
What do we really eat? What information do labels give us? Do they tell us everything? Are companies really being transparent?
