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Financial Times: Exchange traded funds that emphasise good environmental, social and governance factors have surged in popularity, as investors look to boost their returns and push companies to become better corporate citizens. [Full article available to Financial Times subscribers.]
Bloomberg: The coronavirus pandemic is complicating the task of rooting out modern slavery by making it impossible for companies or investors to visit factory floors in many countries, adding to the challenges of addressing supply-chain risks.
Private Equity Wire: In recent years, the most noticeable movement towards ESG made by large private equity firms was related to the launch of new products, such as impact funds that select small and midcap companies according to specific environmental or social themes (e.g. education, healthcare, sustainable infrastructure) and align with the Sustainable Development Goals. TPG, KKR, Bain Capital, among others, have launched such funds.
Financial Times: Environmental, social and governance investing has been one of the hottest sectors of 2020, as investors have flooded into the market looking to immunise their portfolios against climate risk and help promote a sustainable recovery from the pandemic.
Reuters: If fund managers are serious about clean investments, they need to get their hands dirty.
Financial Times: The global umbrella body for securities regulators is seeking to harmonise the patchwork of rules governing how companies disclose sustainability risks in a move that could be a game-changer for the fast-growing green finance sector. [Full article available to Financial Times subscribers.]
Institutional Investor: One agency’s A+ is another’s “laggard” — and neither links to financial performance. Hybrid metrics will change everything, argue Harvard Business School’s Mark Kramer and leaders in the shared-value movement.
Bloomberg: It’s become a hackneyed truism in the age of Covid-19 that global problems need coordinated global solutions. When it comes to combating climate change, the U.S. appears to be setting out alone.
Bloomberg: Just like in traditional investing, there are dozens of strategies you can use to be an ESG investor. There are funds that pick the best-rated low-carbon companies, funds that focus on companies with more women on boards, and funds that use a series of ratings and checklists to ensure the stocks they are betting on are “better” than the rest of the market.
Bloomberg: Embedding social responsibility into a company’s organizing documents has sometimes been seen as risky, but private equity pioneer and hedge fund founder Jeff Tannenbaum is betting it is the future.
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