News & Commentaries
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 International Organisations said governments need to adopt a more transformative agenda on low-carbon, climate-resilient investments if they are to meet the Paris Agreement goal of cutting CO2 emissions to net zero in the second half…
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 governance (ESG) investing." [COMMENTARY]BNY Mellon have hit on an old and familiar theme with their study. However, as addressed in their findings, there’s a great deal of work by regulators and others behind the scenes…
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 Disability Inclusion Advantage.’ This report looks at both the disability practices and financial performance of 140 companies over the past four years… Companies that ’embrace best practices for employing and supporting more people with disabilities…
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." [COMMENTARY]Though to me the findings are unsurprising, this is the first study to demonstrate that ESG ratings have a similar impact to credit ratings on a company’s stock price. This finding will no doubt be…
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% to 35%, advisers say, while the percentage of Gen Xers embracing ESG spiked from 16% to 25%. This is more than a generational story, however… Twenty-six percent of ultra-high-net-worth investors now show a high level…
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 the highest overall rate of improvement, and so the greatest ethical utility. This is, unsurprisingly, an argument for more investment in EM." [COMMENTARY]The argument presented here is like the idea of investing in companies who…
