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“Unpublished BlackRock research also reveals thousands more will be downgraded in wide-ranging MSCI shake-up.” [COMMENTARY] It’s likely that other index…Continue readingHundreds of funds to be stripped of ESG rating.

“Implementing their suggestions could force Canadian financial institutions to divest their fossil fuel company loans or refuse to insure oil…Continue readingStronger climate regulations for banks might not actually cut emissions.

“We document statistically significant excess returns in ESG portfolios from 2014 to 2020 in the U.S. and Japan. We propose…Continue readingQuantifying the Returns of ESG Investing: An Empirical Analysis with Six ESG Metrics.

“As regulatory oversight of ESG tightens in the EU and U.K., with additional disclosure and more substantive requirements in this…Continue readingESG Battlegrounds: How the States Are Shaping the Regulatory Landscape in the U.S.

? “We explore the feasibility and performance of more targeted investment strategies based on specific ESG categories, by deconstructing ESG…Continue readingDeconstructing ESG Scores: How to Invest with your own Criteria

“As Bob Eccles, sustainability researcher and founder and president of investment company Advisory Capital Partners puts it: ‘ESG is about the…Continue readingIn pursuit of positive impact: Growing scrutiny around ESG highlights impact investing as a force for change.

“The European Union said on Wednesday it had reached a deal on the world’s first set of comprehensive rules for…Continue readingEU agrees world’s first bond issuance rules to combat greenwashing.

“In this guest commentary, Alejandra Padin-Dujon proposes a new kind of carbon tax, building upon recent EU legislation, that would…Continue readingThe case for a Scope 3 carbon tax for financial institutions.

“The importance of environmental, social and governance performance in business has become the subject of growing skepticism and pushback. But…Continue readingContradicting Skeptics, New Research Links ESG Performance to the Bottom Line.