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The Asset: Fitch Ratings has launched what it described as a heat map on environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks covering 51 different industry sectors for corporate issuers to provide further insight on the relevance of ESG factors to credit ratings.
Investment Europe: A study by Witold J. Henisz and James McGlinch of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, published in the spring issue of Applied Corporate Finance, has suggested a connection between ESG performance and credit risk.
Bloomberg: Earlier this year, one of Meryam Omi’s deputies at Legal & General Investment Management sat down with board members and managers from Exxon Mobil Corp. to discuss how the oil giant could address climate change. LGIM, which manages about $1.3 trillion, is one of Exxon’s top 20 shareholders.
Institutional Investor: Limited partners are increasingly putting pressure on alternatives managers to improve the diversity of their firms. But recent hiring for marketing and fundraising roles, at least, suggests that these firms still have a long way to go.
Top 1000 Funds: For more than 50 years, intensively reared animals have been the main source of protein for consumers worldwide, and a major ingredient for multi-billion-dollar brands like Burger King, McDonald’s and KFC.
Investment News: If the evolving language inside mutual fund prospectuses is a guide, financial advisers should brace for an expanding selection of funds focused on environmental, social and corporate governance issues.
The Guardian: BlackRock, the world’s biggest investor, has lost an estimated $90bn over the last decade by ignoring the serious financial risk of investing in fossil fuel companies, according to economists.
City University of London: Impact investing is a specific approach of “investing for the common good” alongside ethical investing, sustainable investing, socially responsible investing (SRI), and environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing.
World Bank Blogs: The rising importance of environment, social and governance (ESG) factors in infrastructure investment decisions isn’t new. Our 2019 Global Infrastructure Investor Survey of institutional infrastructure investors with the EDHEC Infrastructure Institute showed that around 36 percent of institutional investors now consider ESG to be a “first order question, possibly at the expense of performance.”
Funds Europe: Apex Group has launched an in-house environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings and analytics service to evaluate the responsible investing standards of privately held global companies.
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