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"While the top-line percentage was unchanged, plans with more than $20 billion in assets increased incorporation of ESG factors by…Continue readingLarger Plans Continue to Outpace Smaller Plans in Incorporating ESG Factors.

"The latest Spectrem Group report, ’Millennial and Generation X Investors,’ suggests these two generations are significantly more attuned to socially…Continue readingMillennial Investors Want Perks and ESG Investing.

"In this paper we explore the role of screening, the activities typically targeted, the different ways that exclusions are defined,…Continue readingDemystifying negative screens: the full implications of ESG exclusions.

"For calendar 2016 the managers that scored the highest under MSCI’s responsible investment assessment recorded an average compound annual growth…Continue readingMSCI links ESG with stronger asset growth.

“’It will get to a point where, if a fund group doesn′t have fully-implemented ESG integration, and had it in…Continue readingWhy managers need to wake up to ESG threat.

"Impact Shares, is launching the first ETF focused on women empowerment that will screen for sexual harassment. The fund will…Continue readingSexual Harassment Screens Making It Into ETF ESG World.

"Profits, not ethics, are behind big-name investors′ interest in ESG issues." [COMMENTARY] Now we know ESG has ’arrived’ and why…Continue readingWhy activists are cheerleaders for corporate social responsibility.

"A transparent, public and standardised ranking of the world’s largest companies and their carbon emissions." [COMMENTARY] Engaged Tracking created its…Continue reading2017 Engaged Tracking Carbon Rankings.

"The debate started when the American Council for Capital Formation published a sharply written report alleging that, as the group…Continue readingCalPERS′ Ongoing Push Into ESG Drives a Healthy Debate.