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Financial Times: When East Capital invests in a Chinese company, the asset manager runs through a checklist of 60 questions designed to gauge the target’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials.
Financial Times: The all-male boards of hundreds of Japanese companies face a mass shaming this month as investors prepare to vote against the leadership of companies that do not have any female directors. [Full article available to Financial Times subscribers]
Bloomberg: BlackRock Inc. has challenged Korea Electric Power Corp. over plans to invest in new coal-fired power plants in Vietnam and Indonesia.
Financial Times: Annie Chen is feeling optimistic. For some time now, Asian investors’ interest in sustainable ventures has “definitely accelerated”, says the Hong Kong-based advocate of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. A decade ago, few of the backers that she was trying to persuade were enthusiastic. [Full article available to Financial Times subscribers]
The Asset: Like a metal door closing shut, the global virus pandemic has silenced the steady hum of commerce. Lockdowns have halted businesses and schools, disrupted supply chains, closed airports and stopped air travel. As streets from Manila to Mumbai turned eerily empty in what would have been congested daily traffic, photos shared on social media instead were of picture-perfect magnificent blue skies of city views never seen for some time.
Top 1000 Funds: The integration of ESG issues into investment practice and decision making is an increasingly standard part of the regulatory and legal requirements for institutional investors around the world. In China, two key drivers have recently prompted interest in responsible investment: a government effort to promote green finance, and the increasing globalisation of China’s investment market.
Financial Times: Asia is the dynamo of today’s global economy. But it lags behind the west in one critically-important regard: commitment to environmentally and socially sustainable investment. [Full article available to Financial Times subscribers.]
Top 1000 Funds: In the Chinese language, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters — 危机 (weiji): where危 (wei) means crisis or danger, 机(ji) means opportunity.
Bloomberg: Singapore plans to include a broader range of climate change-related risks in a future stress test of its financial industry, a government minister said.
Bloomberg: Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund has been a trailblazer in promoting the need to incorporate environmental, social and governance issues into the day-to-day job of portfolio construction. With $1.6 trillion under management, it has a lot of firepower in the investing world. So its recent stand against short selling, judging the practice to be incompatible with its role as the long-term custodian of multigenerational assets, is worth paying attention to.
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