How will water scarcity affect portfolios?
The recent heatwaves in the Northern Hemisphere focussed the minds of investors on the realistic prospect of global water shortages from climate change.
Analysis (EU)
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PRI Report Cards – Who scored an A+?
Asset managers signed up to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) are beginning to receive their 2018 report cards from the association on how well ESG metrics are incorporated into their investment processes.
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ESG managers shun outperforming Faangs
Facebook, Amazon and Apple have been shunned by fund managers using an environmental, social and governance approach to investing, although Google parent Alphabet still gets a pass.
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Clarity Clinic: Hardik Shah, GMO
In this week’s edition of the Clarity Clinic, GMO’s ESG practice manager, Hardik Shah talks about the challenges preventing wider ESG adoption in Asia, and outlines the subtle differences between investors in the region and the wider world.
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Clarity Clinic: Russell Waite, Affinity Private Wealth
In the latest instalment of the Clarity Clinic, Russell Waite, the director of Affinity Private Wealth, describes his experience of taking a sustainable investing qualification, and describes how millennials are changing misconceptions about ESG.
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What’s driving renewable energy investment?
The global transition to renewable energy sources is now being driven by profit potential and no longer by government policy and subsidies.
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Green funds turn red amid trade tension
The trade conflict between the US and China has negatively affected investor sentiment, but Luciano Diana, Geneva-based head of environmental strategies, believes it is only noise, despite the negative effects on his fund’s portfolio.
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Polluted, unequal and corrupt?
On the surface, Asia lags miles behind the west on key ESG issues – but the region is changing.
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Clarity Clinic: Reinhilde Weidacher, ISS Ethix
In our latest Clarity Clinic interview, we ask Reinhilde Weidacher of ISS Ethix, what she considers the biggest change in sustainable investing in a decade and which issues are dominating investor discussions today?
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Russia begins to embrace global ESG trend
Russia and ethical investing are not typical bedfellows, but the country is beginning to embrace the global sustainability trend.
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Moulding holdings around plastic clampdown
Encouraging biodegradable packaging and avoiding single-use plastics is becoming part of firms’ ESG criteria in the face of plastics’ destructive impact on oceans.
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Clarity Clinic: Honor Fell, Redington
Redington’s Honor Fell tells ESG Clarity how consultants have adjusted their fund manager assessment methods, and why data holds the key to investor awareness.