Robeco has made its country sustainability rankings available on the Sustainable Investing (SI) Open Access Initiative platform. Launched last year, the platform opens up Robeco’s SI intellectual property to a group of academics and clients. The country sustainability rankings turn in-depth analysis across a range of ESG data, from climate change to income inequalities, corruption … Read more
In the second part of our conversation with UK-based Castlefield, we talk to Olivia Bowen, partner of financial advice, about the hidden risks of tracker funds, and why a big corporate and social responsibility department doesn’t always tally with good ESG ratings. You can read part one here. How did you get into ESG financial … Read more
As 2023’s AGM season rolls around, at least 542 shareholder resolutions have been filed so far in the US on ESG issues. As You Sow, Ceres and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility are the non-profits leading the charge, according to data compiled by Proxy Preview. ESG Clarity looks at how shareholders are learning from … Read more
The closer a company’s oil and gas extraction project is to an environmentally sensitive site, the more chance there is of an environmental incident causing that company to be criticised and thus posing a risk to its investors, RepRisk has found. Research from the ESG data company published discovered public companies within a 1km radius … Read more
With climate awareness intensifying in recent years, we have witnessed a significant investor exodus from heavy-emitting companies. The rise of ESG has been a key factor in this flight of capital, as asset managers have sought to demonstrate strong sustainability credentials. As we embark on the evolution to a greener world, there are still numerous … Read more
Morningstar Sustainalytics has named Sylviane Carot as the head of Asia Pacific ESG alliances and redistribution. Carot joined on 4 April with 19 years’ experience working in financial services. She has spent the past 13 years at MSCI where she was head of ASEAN for asset owners, buy-side and insurances clients and was in charge … Read more
In part one of this Green Dream video interview, Jenn-Hui Tan, Fidelity’s global head of stewardship and sustainable investing, discusses the firm’s stewardship priorities, the results of a new voting policy and the importance of industry-wide engagement. Watch the full video interview above and read the transcript below. NK: Hello, I’m Natalie Kenway, editor in chief … Read more
Financial advisers have “significantly increased” their focus on sustainable and responsible funds since the pandemic, according to statistics from FE fundinfo. The FE Analytics data shows that sustainable funds now account for a larger proportion of the top-25 researched funds within the Investment Association (IA) Global universe on its platform. In 2019, only 28% (seven … Read more
ETFs categorised as Article 9 are performing worse on average on most Principal Adverse Impact indicators (PAIs), which refer to disclosure requirements under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), than Article 8 ETFs, a recent study has found. They also show great misalignment with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals than Article 8 counterparts. In … Read more
Reforms to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) have been welcomed by industry commentators as signalling a step towards “the type of carbon economy that we need in order to address the systemic issues of climate change”. Last week EU ministers approved a wide-ranging set of reforms phasing out allowances and paving the way for … Read more