Since 2002
Postings and Commentaries
by Ron Robins
Podcast: October 2026 Sustainable Stock and ETF Picks
October 2026 Sustainable Stock and ETF Picks. Includes top analyst AI stock picks and a terrific ranking of sustainable companies.…
When ethical investment desires equal a demand for returns.
"There has been a significant shift in UK investor behaviour, with 60 per cent of investors looking to make more…
Barron′s 100 Most Sustainable Companies.
"Barron′s offers our first ranking of the most sustainable companies in the U.S. We have always aimed to provide information…
Strong ESG policies are no protection against scandal.
"Companies that aim to do good for society by adhering to environmental, social and governance policies are more likely to…
Yahoo Finance Expands Offerings as Only Free Provider of Sustainability Scores, across Desktop and Mobile Web.
"Conscientious investors will be able to track the Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) scores of more than 2,000 publicly traded…
CUNY, Harvard scientists team with UBS Asset Management on sustainable investing framework.
"The team leveraged recent advances in several scientific disciplines, including earth observation and modeling, epidemiology, and public health, and linked…
Utilities may suffer ’significant losses’ from carbon taxes.
"A new paper from Trucost, part of S&P Dow Jones Indices, suggests major companies across the electric utility, chemicals and…
Just out, Corporate Knight’s 2018 Global 100.
"Companies from 22 different countries made the 2018 list, with the U.S., France and U.K. leading the pack. European companies…
Sustainable Fund Assets Under Management Achieved Limited Gains in 2017 But Poised to Increase Traction.
"During a year when a number of high profile environmental, social and governance (ESG) related events unfolded, sustainable fund assets…
Chinese index ranking companies by social value commitment aims to help ethical investors.
"China Alliance of Social Value Investment says its Social Value 99 index outperformed traditional benchmark stock indices in a simulation."…
Millennial Investors Want Perks and ESG Investing.
"The latest Spectrem Group report, ’Millennial and Generation X Investors,’ suggests these two generations are significantly more attuned to socially…
Larger Plans Continue to Outpace Smaller Plans in Incorporating ESG Factors.
"While the top-line percentage was unchanged, plans with more than $20 billion in assets increased incorporation of ESG factors by…
State of Green Business Report 2018, by GreenBiz/Trucost.
"The report looks at 10 key trends and dozens of metrics assessing how, and how much, companies are moving the…
Demystifying negative screens: the full implications of ESG exclusions.
"In this paper we explore the role of screening, the activities typically targeted, the different ways that exclusions are defined,…
MSCI links ESG with stronger asset growth.
"For calendar 2016 the managers that scored the highest under MSCI’s responsible investment assessment recorded an average compound annual growth…
Sexual Harassment Screens Making It Into ETF ESG World.
"Impact Shares, is launching the first ETF focused on women empowerment that will screen for sexual harassment. The fund will…
Why managers need to wake up to ESG threat.
“’It will get to a point where, if a fund group doesn′t have fully-implemented ESG integration, and had it in…
Why activists are cheerleaders for corporate social responsibility.
"Profits, not ethics, are behind big-name investors′ interest in ESG issues." [COMMENTARY] Now we know ESG has ’arrived’ and why…
CalPERS′ Ongoing Push Into ESG Drives a Healthy Debate.
"The debate started when the American Council for Capital Formation published a sharply written report alleging that, as the group…
2017 Engaged Tracking Carbon Rankings.
"A transparent, public and standardised ranking of the world’s largest companies and their carbon emissions." [COMMENTARY] Engaged Tracking created its…
Influential investors urge 100 carbon-intensive companies to step up climate action.
"Today, as many as 225 influential global investors with more than $26.3 trillion in assets under management pledged to engage…
