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The Next Frontier, Sustainable Developments Goals And The Asset Classes
Investors are increasingly looking at integrating sustainability considerations beyond equities. Historically, the integration of sustainability has referred to the application of data and ratings to the investment process. However, given the prominence of the SDGs and greater expectations of the members, what should a deeper level of integration incorporate?
Session recording and slidesSustainability
The Next Frontier, Sustainable Developments Goals And The Asset Classes
Investors are increasingly looking at integrating sustainability considerations beyond equities. Historically, the integration of sustainability has referred to the application of data and ratings to the investment process. However, given the prominence of the SDGs and greater expectations of the members, what should a deeper level of integration incorporate?
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Core Impact: Avoiding The Greenwash Bubble
As ESG integration gains prominence investors are discerning on greenwashing. While the popular ESG narrative has virtuous intentions in many cases it falls short as exposure to the highly priced FAANGS dominates the portfolio.
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Water disruption: Investment risk from multiple angles
There is a lot of talk about how regulatory reforms connected to climate change will impact financial markets. However, we firmly believe the leading issue, at the end of the day, is that we have been entrusted to look after our clients’ assets and are responsible for returning those assets in better condition than when we received them.
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Industry guide to the sustainable development goals
Today, perhaps as never before, the interdependency of global economic, social, and environmental systems has been laid bare.
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Aggregate confusion: The divergence of ESG ratings
This paper investigates the divergence of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings.
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Building long-term sustainable outcomes for clients
At this point in the cycle, investors should consider focusing on risk management and mitigating downside risk in investment markets, a process inherent in active management.
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Corporate sustainability: First evidence on materiality
Using newly-available materiality classifications of sustainability topics, we develop a novel dataset by hand-mapping sustainability investments classified as material for each industry into firm-specific sustainability ratings. This allows us to present new evidence on the value implications of sustainability investments.
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Corporate Governance, ESG, and stock returns around the world
Is there a relationship between companies’ stock return performance and their ESG performance (“ESG” hereafter)? A key challenge in examining the return predictability of ESG is how to measure it.
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Collaborating for a low-carbon world
In this paper, we provide an overview of our engagement approach; expanding on the rationale of our climate engagement program – the reasons why we engage on climate and how we select those companies we are engaging with.
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Becoming climate aware
The risks of climate change are an integral element of the duty of care that financial institutions have toward their clients and beneficiaries. That’s why this year’s paper focuses on one of the four global challenges to be discussed at Davos: ”How to address the urgent climate and environmental challenges that are harming our ecology and economy”.
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The roads to a low-carbon transition: What it means for investors
The report makes a clear case for limiting global warming to well below 2ºC, which will require fast and significant structural changes in the global economy – and meaningful action from policymakers, financial institutions and corporations.
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The Green Swan: Central banking and financial stability in the age of climate change
Climate change poses new challenges to central banks, regulators and supervisors. This book reviews ways of addressing these new risks within central banks’ financial stability mandate.
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How does renewables differ to other, traditional infrastructure assets
Renewable infrastructure possesses several similar characteristics to traditional infrastructure, most notably the defensive nature and the diversified role it can play in portfolios owing to its lower correlation to equities and bonds.