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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Investors say one year of underperformance is the limit
Most investors are unwilling to suffer underperformance in an environmental, social and governance-based strategy for more than 12 months, a poll has shown.
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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.
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US advisers question the “cost” of ESG
More than a third of US investment advisers believe they have to sacrifice returns, to include environmental, social and governance metrics into investment portfolios, a survey has found.
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The art of predicting the future
Socially-responsible investing is not about short-term gains, says Union Investment’s sustainability chief Florian Sommer, it’s about divining future business trends and working out which companies are best able to adapt.
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REVEALED: The fund firms exposed to US child detention camps
Blackrock has blamed index tracking products for its large stake in a contractor involved in child detention centres in the US.
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Give us tools to prove ESG’s impact, say investors
Investors say they have insufficient tools to measure the financial impact of embracing ESG metrics in their investment strategies, according to a new poll.
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The long road towards ESG integration
Integrating ESG into the investment process is easier said than done and will vary from one team to another, according to industry experts.
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How can investors improve ESG awareness?
Despite a raft of surveys trumpeting the benefits of sustainable investment policies, investors are still reluctant. So, what needs to change to secure their buy-in and is the revolution already underway?
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SURVEY: Pension investors are ignoring climate risk
Less than one fifth of European institutional pension investors are weighing up risks to their portfolio from environmental issues, a survey has found.
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Has ESG morphed into a glorified box-ticking exercise?
Impact investing is being touted as an alternative to environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies which are failing to live up to their ethical hype.