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Funds Europe: Investors following the responsible investment trend focus less on returns from social and governance investing than they do on environmental opportunities.
Think Advisor: A puzzlingly common misconception in the investing world holds that investments that take into account environmental, social and governance considerations entail a certain trade-off: doing good for people/communities versus turning a profit.
Funds Europe: Global index provider MSCI has warned that plastic could become a stranded asset amid the shift toward electric vehicles and international efforts to cut down on fossil fuel emissions.
Investment Executive: The group, which includes 50 organizations representing over US$2.9 trillion in assets under management, said that the Equator Principles (EPs) — a voluntary, global environmental and social risk management framework — doesn’t provide an adequate mechanism for avoiding reputational, financial and litigation risks involving Indigenous rights when banks finance controversial projects, such as pipelines.
Mondo Visione: In its history, humanity produced 7.8 billion tonnes of plastic until 2015, roughly one tonne per person alive today. After its usage, plastic partly gets “revived” as a PET bottle or even in a T-Shirt. While this process remains the best-case scenario, large amounts of plastic are flushed into the ocean where it may become eaten by aquatic animals, eventually ending up in humans’ stomachs.
Citywire: Fires in the Amazon came to the fore last week and continue to generate attention after the Brazilian government rejected the G7's offer of $22 million aid.
Financial Times: Investment managers within the environmental, social and governance sector are looking to gain an edge by using artificial intelligence, a computer-driven discipline already employed by some of the world’s most successful hedge funds.
Bloomberg: Managers overseeing trillions in exchange-traded funds have been quietly meeting around Wall Street this week to check the quality controls on their funds, rattled after Vanguard Group Inc. mistakenly added shares of 11 companies, including a gun manufacturer and a private prison operator, to its $578 million socially responsible ETF.
Investor Ideas: Users of commodities increasingly demand greater oversight and understanding of the supply chain, to ensure the commodities they use (e.g. agricultural commodities, energy and precious/non-precious metals) accord with some definition of sustainability. This demand will impact not only commodity spot markets, but potentially the corresponding derivative markets.
Top 1000 Funds: As You Sow, which has worked for more than a decade with activist investors to promote waste reduction and increase recycling of many types of waste, is working with a growing group of 40 investors to educate and engage companies and other investors about risks posed by plastic pollution.
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