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Bloomberg: Global socially responsible investments grew by 34 percent to $30.7 trillion over the past two years, lifted by Japanese pension funds, retail investors everywhere and broad, growing concern about climate change.
Financial Times: The global impact investment market is worth more than half a trillion dollars, according to the most comprehensive study to date of one of the fastest-growing areas of asset management.
Opalesque: The Core Characteristics, which have been developed with input from leaders across the impact investing industry, will help investors understand the essential elements of impact investing, define the credibility of their practices, and consider the quality of the practices of potential investment partners.
UNDP: The potential of social impact bonds (SIBs) to contribute to an estimated US$2.5 – 3 trillionin annual investment for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has attracted increased attention over recent years.
IPE: ESG is on everybody’s lips these days but there are still no generally accepted standards as to what it really entails – or even what it means. Moreover, today’s investment management norms in a benchmark-focused world still materially constrain ESG actions.
IR Magazine: Petrochemical companies are facing pressure to disclose incidents where they have spilled plastic into the ocean, which leads to what is said to be a major source of pollution.
Share Action: 90 global companies, including 21 of the world’s 100 largest firms, have responded to investor calls for more consistent and comparable workforce data – a request aimed at improving the quality of jobs worldwide and helping to tackle inequality and poverty.
The Guardian: The UN’s housing advisor has accused private equity firms and one of the world’s largest corporate residential landlords, Blackstone Group, of exploiting tenants, “wreaking havoc” in communities and helping to fuel a global housing crisis.
Forbes: In this post, Bob Eccles will analyze the importance of the infrastructure sector. It’s overall score is 21.4—compared to 36.0 for food and beverage, 32.6 for healthcare, 30.4 for extractives & mineral processing, 28.4 for resource transformation, 23.8 for renewables and alternative energy, 20.1 for consumption—putting it the low end of the sectors he has written about so far.
Harvard Business Review: Aside from professional sports, the investment business — encompassing investment management, mutual, hedge, private equity, and venture capital funds — might have the lowest percentage of women at the top of the pyramid (at 4%). And women only control between 1% and 3.5% of assets under management, depending on specific class.
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