Latest news and expert analysis on ESG investment topics for the Asia region.
China’s listed firms make it the global laggard on environmental, social and governance factors while Big Tech is dragging on the US score. Global ratings firm Morningstar has just published a Sustainability Atlas examining and rating 46 country equity indices on ESG criteria. Morningstar researchers analysed the firm’s entire suite of global equity indexes, representing…
Pimco’s latest ESG investing report finds that corporate issuer engagement rates are improving worldwide
Alignment of corporate objectives with executive incentives has become a key AGM issue
The Bluefield Solar Income Fund has been recognised for its alignment to targets set by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The deal is a response to the increasing importance of sustainability factors to investment decision-making
Brunel Pension Partnership – which oversees some £30bn in assets – is the latest investor to join a growing initiative
The new launch takes Nomura Asset Management into the increasingly crowded global sustainable equity fund market
Philip Hammond is travelling to Washington to speak at the annual International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring Meetings, taking place from Friday 12 to Sunday 14 April
Bosses at the oil giant say they would have little control over the emissions of their customers
Study finds sustainable portfolios likely to outperform standard portfolios by 0.2 per cent, every year, until 2030
Amundi and BNP Paribas AM aim to integrate ESG factors across all products, and Willis Towers Watson expects more firms to follow – or lose business
