Since 2002
Postings and Commentaries
by Ron Robins
Podcast: July 2026 Sustainable Stock and ETF Picks
July 2026 Sustainable Stock and ETF Picks. Includes articles on the top sustainable pharmaceutical companies, clean energy ETFs, and more!…
OECD, UN Environment and World Bank call for a radical shift in financing for a low-carbon, climate-resilient future.
"Delivering a new report, Financing Climate Futures: Rethinking Infrastructure, to the G20 at its Summit in Buenos Aires, the three…
Lack of international standards holding back ESG investing, finds BNY Mellon study.
"Non-financial performance measurement and a lack of international standards have been identified as the biggest hurdle for environmental, social and…
Companies Leading on Disability Inclusion Outperform Peers.
"Accenture, in partnership with Disability:IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), has released ’Getting to Equal: The…
Are ESG Ratings the New Credit Rating for Stock Prices?
"A new MSCI study of ESG ratings finds they have a similar impact on share prices as do credit ratings."…
From upstream to mainstream: ESG at a tipping point.
"In a year’s time, the percentage of Millennials expressing a high level of interest in ESG investing jumped from 26%…
Green finance: a contrarian take.
"Renaissance′s argument thereafter is that, even if emerging markets have far lower ESG scores, directing capital their way allows for…
S&P 500 Firms Expand Sustainability Data in Financial Filings, But Slow to Adopt Fully Integrated Reporting.
"78 percent of S&P 500 companies issue a sustainability report… Among companies that issue sustainability reports, 95 percent offer quantified,…
Research Links Financial and Corporate Sustainability (ESG) Performance.
"Based on 642 North American sustainability reports for the 2017 reporting period, CSE created a unique analysis framework. It identifies…
Clean finance needs to include traditionally ‘dirty′ industries.
"We need mechanisms that finance climate-friendly projects, not only for solar panels and transit tracks, but also for a massive…
Big data, ESG ratings help find alpha.
"This has fundamental implications for how chief sustainability officers and business leaders work with the broader ecosystem. The higher price…
US SIF Foundation Releases 2018 Biennial Report On US Sustainable, Responsible And Impact Investing Trends.
"The US SIF Foundation’s 2018 biennial Report on US Sustainable, Responsible and Impact Investing Trends, released today, found that sustainable,…
Does ethical investment withhold capital from those that most need it?
Charlie Robertson of Renaissance Capital, an investment bank, reckons ESG risks becoming code for something else: an excuse for investors…
Canadian RI Assets Surpass $2 Trillion: Canadian RI Trends Report.
"$2.13 trillion in RI assets under management (AUM); 41.6% growth in RI AUM over a two-year period; RI represents 50.6%…
ESG Signal Enables Global Outperformance, Truvalue Labs’ Backtest Shows.
“Truvalue LabsTM, the pioneer in AI-driven environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data, today announced the results of a new research…
BlackRock stakes claim on ‘sustainable investing′ revolution.
"Fink forecasts such ETF assets will rise from $25bn to over $400bn in a decade… ’We are going to see…
Only 6% of Older Investors Are Familiar With ESG Investing: Survey.
"Only 40% of investors older than 60 were familiar with values-based investing, compared with 84% of millennials, and a mere…
2018 Disruptive ETF Virtual Summit Live Update: ESG Investing Poll [among financial advisors] Shows Mixed Results.
"ESG investing is still looking to gain more broad acceptance from investors as the space continues to expand with a…
Ethics & Trust in Finance Prize.
"It aims to encourage high-quality management of banking, insurance and financial services based on trust and integrity. Launched in 2006…
[UK] Investors unwilling to sacrifice profit for ethics.
"The VCT provider surveyed 250 individual investors aged between 40 and 80 with household earnings of £125,000. Albion’s research found…
Canada’s Responsible Investment Week, October 22-26.
I encourage all Canadian investors to participate. For all events, clickhere!
