ESG and Sustainability
The rise of ESG factors in investment decision making will have a dramatic impact on returns and opportunities in the 21st century. A recent survey by LGT Capital Partners and Mercer showed that 57% of respondents believe that incorporating ESG standards into investment decisions will raise returns. Just 9% argued they reduce returns on investment.
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Atom bank and Kamma have formed a significant partnership aimed at addressing the pressing concerns of climate change. This collaboration brings together Atom bank’s cutting-edge banking technology with Kamma’s climate tech expertise, creating a comprehensive approach to understanding and mitigating climate risks associated with Atom bank’s mortgage portfolio.
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Purpose Investments Goes All In on ESG Principles
Purpose Investments is the latest asset manager to integrate environmental, social and governance – ESG principles – into its strategies. The catch – they will adopt ESG into every single one of their funds. The company made the announcement on Wednesday. Its goal is to create a new ESG framework and fuse it with as many of its funds as possible by January 1, 2020.
Credit Suisse To Include ESG Criteria in Fund Assets Worth CHF 100 Billion By 2020
Credit Suisse Asset Management is set to introduce an ‘environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG)’ investing framework across its funds The Credit Suisse ESG initiative will initially include 30 funds carrying assets more than CHF 20 billion. These funds will therefore need to reposition by end-October 2019 under the Credit Suisse Sustainable Investing Framework. Ultimately,…
Credit Suisse Asset Management Makes ESG Announcement
Credit Suisse Asset Management announced plans to adopt ESG factors into all of its investment decisions. The firm said that any fund with more than CHF 20 billion in assets will implement ESG criteria into its framework.
RBC Global Asset Management has launched the RBC BlueBay Global Bond Fund
RBC Global Asset Management has launched the RBC BlueBay Global Bond Fund. The company calls it “a globally diversified fixed-income fund designed as a core portfolio holding for U.S. investors.”
Vermont’s Green Mountain Power Divests from Fossil Fuels
Green Mountain Power announced that its pension fund will completely divest from fossil fuel companies. Last week, the company’s leadership finalized the reallocation of roughly $13.5 million of its $180 million fund.
Interactive Investor Releases Ethical Buy List
The Ethical Buy List has arrived amongst a flurry of new ESG products sweeping the market.
Invesco Report: Sovereign Funds Adopting ESG Standards Quickly
Sovereign investors are ramping up their environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments. A new study by Invesco shows that two-thirds of sovereign funds are considering these socially conscious investments.
Goldman CEO David Solomon: Time for ESG Investing to Go Mainstream
Goldman CEO David Solomon said that financial institutions need to push ESG investing into the mainstream. During a talk at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum, Solomon encouraged advisers to ramp up conversations with clients about climate change and the associated exposure.
Big-Name Institutional Investors Join Hands for Carbon-Neutral Portfolios by 2050
Announced at the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit in progress in New York, the Alliance will address climate change and low-carbon portfolios.
New Law Requires California Pensions to Divest all Turkish Assets
New legislation bars California pensions funds from investing in Turkish assets. Turkish assets are now barred at California pensions. This is because of Turkey’s refusal to acknowledge responsibility for the Armenian Genocide. This tragedy claimed the lives of about 1.5 million Armenians a century ago. However, for funds and pensions, the new law brings to…
Responsible Investing in Commodities is Possible: OFI Asset Management
Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) objectives are not incompatible with commodity investing says an OFI portfolio manager. Certainly, ESG in commodities is possible through proactive asset management, according to Benjamin Louvet, commodities portfolio manager at OFI AM. How the twain shall meet One very simple method is to drop an offending sector or industry from…
University of California: “Fossil Fuel Assets a Financial Risk”
The University of California Pension and Endowment funds will divest all fossil fuel assets.
That’s because fossil fuel and coal and oil sands posed a “long-term risk” to the University of California’s portfolios. Two senior University officials revealed the divestment plans in an opinion piece Tuesday in the LA Times.
Japanese ESG Investments Outperforming Benchmarks
Latest GPIF Report Shows that Sustainability Can Pay Off Japanese ESG investments are doing very well. The country’s $1.47 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) said today that four of five ESG indices topped the Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX) and market averages since April 2017. The GPIF has invested about $32.4 billion of its…
ESG investing using artificial intelligence
Data science and enormous computing power such as artificial intelligence are now able to provide new ESG insights to investment managers
Unstructured, voluminous and incompatible data always presented a challenge to investors and asset managers looking to make environmental, social and governance (ESG)-friendly investments. Artificial intelligence (AI) could change all that with its capacity to crunch vast amounts of data and throw Up new insights not available through other, traditional methods.
BlackRock Faces New Criticism Over Fossil Fuels
BlackRock is in the eye of a media storm for consistently not putting its money where its mouth is on climate change.
On the flip side, BlackRock’s iShares ESG MSCI USA Leaders ETF (SUSL) hoovered up $851 million when it launched last month. This fund invests in the best corporate citizens in the US as part of a responsible investing theme.
ACP to Launch ESG Alternative Investment Funds
Alternative Capital Partners is an Italian asset management firm that focuses on alternatives and applies ESG principles to all underlying asset classes. They believe that fund returns can be improved by the additional thrust on ESG sustainability principles. At the same time, there will be a beneficial impact on the environment and the real Italian economy.
Why This Hedge Fund is Betting on Climate Change
Robert Gibbins’ Autonomy Capital thinks investors are ignoring the implications of climate change at their own peril