Clarity Clinic: Mike Webb, CEO, Rathbones UTM
Having clocked up some 25 years in the industry, CEO Mike Webb explains how attitudes towards sustainable investing have shifted and what the future holds for his division of the group
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Meet the Editorial Advisory Panel
ESG Clarity today unveiled the final six names for its Editorial Advisory Panel
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Expensive ESG products turn off HK investors
Sustainable investment products come with higher fees than traditional products, according to a UBS survey of Hong Kong investors.
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Why are UK investors so unethical?
British investors among the least likely to invest sustainably, according to UBS.
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Gravis: Switch to cleaner fuel offers income opportunity
The trend for major companies to switch to cleaner fuels for their commercial vehicles is offering income investors a long-term diversification opportunity, according to a London-based investment boutique.
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Most investors find sustainable investing challenging: survey
European and Asian investors find sustainable investing more challenging than their North American and Latin American peers
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Should impact investors aim for market returns?
Fund houses are increasingly launching impact products to rival mainstream alternatives, but what should investors expect in terms of a return?
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Hermes: ESG engagement not driven by investment size
Christine Chow, director at Hermes equity ownership services (EOS), sheds some light on her firm’s ESG engagement process.
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Do ESG indices have a place in active portfolios?
How useful are ESG indices? Are there limitations to their use? Are fund selectors and asset allocators using them correctly? We ask the CIO of one of the UK’s leading investment consultants…
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Report: Time to rethink ESG index construction
Traditional approaches to creating ESG indices, result in a “fairly large set of unintended bets on other risk factors,” a new study has suggested.
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ESG enters list of most popular hedge fund strategies
Environmental, social and governance-focused strategies have appeared in the top 10 most popular hedge fund strategies for the first time, according to an annual investor report by Credit Suisse.
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Clarity Clinic: Paul Warner, MitonOptimal
This week, MitonOptimal’s head of model portfolio, Paul Warner steps into the Clarity Clinic to explain how sustainable investment approaches have changed over the past 40 years, and why he believes it’s time to bring back some governance techniques from the seventies.