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Institutional Asset Manager: The rise of environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-based investing will likely accelerate as a younger, more values-oriented crop of investors enter the global markets, company executives and asset managers told attendees at S&P Global Ratings' ESG Evaluation launch ceremony in New York.
IPE: More than 90% of investors in alternatives believe the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will help the financial industry tackle pressing environmental and social issues, according to a survey.
IR Magazine: Leading global investors CalPERS, Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund and the UK’s Strathclyde Pension Fund are among some of the most responsible asset allocators in the world, according to a new ESG ranking and report.
Eco-Business: Despite the rise of sustainability up the corporate agenda in recent years, some companies are still stuck in the late 1990s, says Maarten Biermans, the head of sustainable capital markets at Dutch multinational bank, Rabobank.
Harvard Business Review: Most corporate leaders understand that businesses have a key role to play in tackling urgent challenges such as climate change. But many of them also believe that pursuing a sustainability agenda runs counter to the wishes of their shareholders. Sure, some heads of large investment firms say they care about sustainability, but in practice, investors, portfolio managers, and sell-side analysts rarely engage corporate executives on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues.
GreenBiz: To account for the effects of a world in flux, more investors are pursuing strategies that consider relevant environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, an approach known broadly as sustainable investing. In 2017 alone, assets managed through such an approach increased by 37 percent, according to Bloomberg.
Barron's: The financial industry has jumped on the impact investing and environmental, social or governance—or ESG—bandwagon. But Hiromichi Mizuno, the man who oversees $1.6 trillion in the world’s largest public pension fund, says true believers on Wall Street are still hard to find, so he is taking his own steps to push ESG and impact investing off the sidelines.
Forbes: The International Finance Corp (IFC) estimates that investor demand for impact investing, or investing with the goal of environmental and social impact in addition to financial return, could be $26 trillion. This is over 50 times the Global Impact Investing Network’s most recent estimate for the minimum size of the impact investing market of $502 billion in assets under management.
Financial Post: Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) announced today that it has acquired a majority stake in Vigeo Eiris, a global leader in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) research, data and assessments. The acquisition furthers Moody’s objective of promoting global standards for ESG for use by market participants.
Advisor's Edge: The firm published a report that models three different scenarios, examining the impact of average warming of two, three and four degrees Celsius over three timeframes (to 2030, 2050 and 2100). For both investors and the planet, limiting warming to 2°C is ideal, the report found.
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