ESG / CSR management

Take into consideration the current population, rate of growth, and consumer consumption of natural resources. Can we survive without natural resources? Energy, water and oxygen are three main components of survival. With increasing carbon emission and toxic waste from companies, the depletion of these materials that is quintessential to our survival is being harmed. The … Continue reading "How much longer do we have until we exhaust all of earth’s resources? What role does ESG investing play?"

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The concept of corporate sustainability has gained importance in recent years in both organizational theory and practice. While there still exists a l…

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Acting Chair Allison Lee argued that the voluntary framework of competing and sometimes conflicting standards is not resulting in the kind of comprehensive comparable information investors need.

Petrobras will hold an EGM to vote on a proposal by the Brazilian federal government, which controls 50.5% of voting rights to remove CEO Roberto Castello

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There is growing concern that central banks’ balance sheets, which have ballooned after a decade of asset-purchase programs, are skewed toward holdings that impede the transition to a green economy. But there is also deep disagreement about how policymakers should respond.

"The institutions dumping funds into this unnecessary fracked gas project are just pouring their money into a 300-mile long money pit," said a Sierra Club staffer.

Electric-car maker Tesla is ranked at the top of its industry by one firm that grades environmental, social and governance practices. But another grader puts Tesla at the bottom.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System was one of the first public pensions to tie its investments to social activism. Now it is having second thoughts.

What board directors will quickly find is that the methodology driving the company’s ESG score is currently opaque and varies by data provider. Recent research conducted by State Street, for example, found that there was only a 0.53 correlation between the MSCI and Sustainalytics ESG scores. As an industry, we need to do a better job at creating more consistent and higher-quality scoring. The good news is that the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB) has developed a sophisticated environmental and social reporting framework for companies, which identifies sustainability factors by GICS and sub-GICS sectors that are material for investors.

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Broader sense of purpose is welcome but needs to be measured

Yesterday, BlackRock released its annual Letter to CEOs, which is also commonly referred to as the “Fink Letter.” With the firm managing approximately $9

A tick box style of reporting has its value, acting as a minimum standard if you are a responsible investor. It enables firms to understand how to encourage sustainable investment practices and the right processes and behaviours to avoid negative externalities. However, where it falls short is that it purely looks at inputs, rather than the actual results of those policies and practices. So, a firm might have a sustainability policy, but how has that translated into reducing carbon emissions or resource efficiency in portfolio companies?

Thursday 5 November 2020 UK savers put £5.3 billion into retail funds in Q3 2020, more than three times the net retail sales of Q3 2019 (£1.2bn), according to latest figures published today by the Investment Association (IA). The other key findings:

CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin sat down with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink to discuss how Fink felt about seeing corporate America put an emphasis on climate in 2020 over dividends despite facing a financial crisis.

The world's biggest asset manager urges firms to set rigorous decarbonization goals or risk being voted against at board meetings as it sets out shareholder expectations for 2021.

As sustainable investing interest grows, implementation for many asset owners can be challenging. Here are four steps to design a dynamic strategy for the long term.

Providing leadership to work with clients, academic institutions and others to help mobilize capital to sustainable enterpises, via global capital markets and the investors who drive them.

Sustainable funds weathered stock and bond markets better than traditional portfolios during coronavirus, according to a new report from the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing.