Category: News and Commentaries

"Conscientious investors will be able to track the Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) scores of more than 2,000 publicly traded…Continue readingYahoo Finance Expands Offerings as Only Free Provider of Sustainability Scores, across Desktop and Mobile Web.

"The team leveraged recent advances in several scientific disciplines, including earth observation and modeling, epidemiology, and public health, and linked…Continue readingCUNY, Harvard scientists team with UBS Asset Management on sustainable investing framework.

"A new paper from Trucost, part of S&P Dow Jones Indices, suggests major companies across the electric utility, chemicals and…Continue readingUtilities may suffer ’significant losses’ from carbon taxes.

"Companies from 22 different countries made the 2018 list, with the U.S., France and U.K. leading the pack. European companies…Continue readingJust out, Corporate Knight’s 2018 Global 100.

"During a year when a number of high profile environmental, social and governance (ESG) related events unfolded, sustainable fund assets…Continue readingSustainable Fund Assets Under Management Achieved Limited Gains in 2017 But Poised to Increase Traction.

"China Alliance of Social Value Investment says its Social Value 99 index outperformed traditional benchmark stock indices in a simulation."…Continue readingChinese index ranking companies by social value commitment aims to help ethical investors.

"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.

"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 report looks at 10 key trends and dozens of metrics assessing how, and how much, companies are moving the…Continue readingState of Green Business Report 2018, by GreenBiz/Trucost.

"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.