ESG Analysis – Page 3
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FeaturesCorporate Purpose: Shareholders or society?
The COVID-19 pandemic recovery phase is a chance to reshape global economies into new sustainable models
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Greening the recovery
The coronavirus outbreak has been a tragedy for many, a shock for us all and a crisis for economies around the globe. It has forced governments to embark on a massive experiment, slashing economic activity to limit the pandemic, sharply reducing carbon emissions and preparing for only a slow resumption ...
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Features
ESG: Keeping tabs on offsetting
Portfolios companies’ net-zero commitments often imply use of offsets, which carry risks
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Features
Nuclear power: The need for nuclear
Nuclear energy is key to tackling the existential challenge posed by climate change
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Responsible investing climbs trustee boards’ agendas
The amount of legislation at hand and the pace at which different directives and guidelines are coming out could be seen as daunting for some
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Features
Private and green: Non-listed sustainable debt
The market for non-listed debt with green or sustainability features is growing fast
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Features
Transition bonds: Questions of transition
The market for sustainable investments is growing exponentially
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Features
Green bond issuance: Denmark's split offering
The Danish government is keen to employ tradeable green certificates, which are designed to broaden the appeal of environmental debt, in its initial green bond issuance
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Interviews
On the record: Green bonds
IPE asked two Nordic pension funds how they invest in green bonds and to what extent sustainability is considered part of their fixed-income strategies
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Features
Research: The new benchmarks
Sustainability is set to become the gold standard of investing
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Features
Guest Viewpoint: Steve Waygood
History may well look back on 2019 as the year the world finally woke up to the threats posed by climate change. Yet, with the negotiation failures that occurred at the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid (COP25), the year ended on a significant downer.
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Interviews
How we run our money: AP2
Lars Lindblom (pictured), global fixed-income manager at the second Swedish buffer fund, talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the fund’s evolving green bond investment strategy
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Interviews
On the record: Asset manager selection
IPE asked the Caisse de prévoyance de l’État de Genève (CPEG) how manager selection is changing
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Features
Long term matters: To investors who care about the climate crisis – act before COP26
Rather belatedly, we have a new president of COP26 in the form of Alok Sharma, former UK international development secretary. But this sorry saga seems quite symbolic – we know that we need to do something big but we can’t quite get our act together.
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Opinion Pieces
Davos Diary: Benefitting all stakeholders
January’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos captured the spirit of the early 21st century with the overall theme of “stakeholders for a cohesive and sustainable world
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Interviews
Perspective: Striving for net zero
Günther Thallinger, a member of the board of management at Allianz and chair of the steering group of the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, spoke in Davos about the role of asset owners in reducing carbon emissions
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Features
Integrated reporting: Accounting goes sustainable
Combining conventional financial reporting with non-financial reporting in a single integrated framework presents challenges
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Features
ESG: What drives ATP to divest?
Short of flying someone to Mexico City to knock on the door of the mining and transport company’s headquarters, the Danish pension fund had done all it could. Selling off its DKK13m (€1.7m) block of shares in Grupo México was not what ATP really wanted to do at the end of last year.
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: A more precise way to unlock targeted factors
Factor investing is built on the premise that investors can manage risk and returns by applying an appropriate mix of equity factors such as value, quality, size, momentum and low volatility.
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Investing in green doesn’t equal greening the world
Financial products and services marketed as green must make a clear and measurable difference to the transition to environmental sustainability, argues Ben Caldecott.
