Learn More
<https://castlehalldiligence.com>
shutterstock_375019411

ESG Newsletter

    Wall Street Math Shows ESG Funds Can Ride the Value Stock Boom

    2021-04-08 

    BNN Bloomberg: Green funds have gained a reputation of benefiting from the tech rally during the pandemic. As the economy recovers and investors shift to cheaper stocks, those products might still be able to thrive. 

    Read more...

    Will Impact and ESG Investing Become Synonymous in the Future?

    2021-04-06 

    Funds Europe: FactSet’s Adam Salvatori analyses some of the challenges of making the UN's Sustainable Development Goals a reality, and looks at what role impact and ESG investors can play. 

    Read more...

    “Not About Getting the Badge But Taking the Action”: Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative Covers a Third of Global AUM

    2021-04-06 

    Insitutional Asset Manager: More than a third of total assets under management worldwide are now under the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, an industry action group aiming to reduce carbon emissions in the investment world.

    Read more...

    Managers’ Impact Reaches Tipping Point

    2021-04-01 

    Top 1000 Funds: Asset managers have a chance to really impact the real economy with their commitment to net zero. The Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative now has 73 signatories and one third of assets in the industry committed. It’s reached tipping point, says one of the initiatives’ founders Ed Mason. 

    Read more...

    After a Year of Remote Work, Institutional Investors Are Worried About Employee Burnout

    2021-03-31 

    Institutional Investor: Allocators and consultants shared concerns about staff mental health in a survey of 700 institutional investors. 

    Read more...

    U.S. Companies Resist Activist Investor’s Climate Campaign

    2021-03-30 

    Wall Street Journal: A billionaire British hedge-fund manager’s campaign to make large public companies set near-term targets for carbon-emission cuts is encountering challenges from U.S. corporations and money managers. [Full article available to Wall Street Journal subscribers.] 

    Read more...

    IOSCO Launches Technical Expert Group for IFRS Sustainability Standards Initiative

    2021-03-30 

    ESG TodayThe International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) announced today the launch of a Technical Expert Group (TEG) tasked with assessing the technical recommendations to be developed as part of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation’s (IFRS) sustainability standards project. 

    Read more...

    'Immediate and Drastic.' The Climate Crisis is Seriously Spooking Economists

    2021-03-30 

    CNNWorsening inequality, trillions of dollars in economic damage and depressed economic growth. Those are the outcomes that economists fear we will face unless the world aggressively confronts the climate crisis. 

    Read more...

    ESG Stampede Reduces Financing for Carbon-Intensive Companies

    2021-03-25 

    BNN BloombergThe flip side of the stampede into sustainable investments in recent years is that companies with the greatest need to decarbonize are increasingly starved of funding. 

    Read more...

    IFRS Launches Sustainability Reporting Working Group with Leading Standards Bodies

    2021-03-23 

    ESG Today: Following the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation (IFRS) announcement in February of plans to move forward towards the establishment of global sustainability reporting standards, the IFRS has announced the formation of a working group consisting of leading reporting standards bodies to accelerate that goal. 

    Read more...

    About Castle Hall Diligence

    Castle Hall helps investors build comprehensive due diligence programs across hedge fund, private equity and long only portfolios More →

    Subscribe to Weekly ESG Updates