Asset Allocation
Sustainable Investment Skeptics are Becoming Believers
Study finds number of cynics about ESG cut in half since 2017.
Tag: ESG
Alternatives
In Depth: ESG Gains A Foothold In Middle East
An analysis of critical elements and a case study to understand the integration of ESG in the Middle East.
Asset Allocation
ESG Funding Skyrocketed in 2018
BlackRock and Vanguard continue to grow socially conscious investment vehicles.
Fiduciary Responsibility, Climate Change Bids Investors into Action
Risks to future investments cause new developments in ESG investment models.
Asset Allocation
ESG Principles Guide 70% of Institutional Investors
However ESG adoption slowed in 2019 after two years of rapid growth.
Alternatives
GPIF’s Hiromichi Mizuno’s Term Is Extended for Six Months
The radical investment officer will continue his charge to change the world.
UK Pensioners Commit to Determine Investments’ Impact on Climate Before Executing Deals
High-profile signatories across the UK pledge to find effective means to decarbonize their investment pipelines and portfolios.
Newsmakers
Japan GPIF’s ESG Portfolio Outperforms Market
Fund reports that four out of five ESG investments outperformed their benchmarks.
Alternatives
Dutch Pension Funds Look to Transform How Real Estate Investors Decarbonize
New initiative backed by APG and PGGM looking for pathways to help real estate investors go green.
Newsmakers
ExxonMobil, Shell Among 10 Oil companies Dumped By Danish Pension Fund
The move is part of MP Pension’s 2020 ESG plans, which favor the Paris Agreement.
Newsmakers
Norway’s KLP Pressures Agribusiness, Investors to Save the Amazon
$80 billion fund seeks action to end ‘devastating environmental damage.’
Newsmakers
CalSTRS Seeks to Join Lawsuit to Reform Facebook Governance
Pension fund says litigation will allow it to ‘protect Facebook’s profitability.’
Proposed Bill to Require Companies to Disclose Climate Risk
Legislation would require SEC to issue climate risk disclosure guidelines.
Research
Most Hedge Funds Don’t Consider ESG Factors When Stockpicking
Skeptics remain in the industry, but overall allocations are improving.
Research
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Releases Inaugural Climate Report
Fund details how it works climate risk into investing its nearly $150 billion in assets.