Latest Special Reports – Page 14
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Special ReportESG: Taking a lead on private market ESG
Anna Follèr believes there is no asset class better suited to tackle ESG and sustainability than private equity.
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Special ReportESG: Leading viewpoint - private equity GPs are stepping up to the plate
Private equity firms can be a powerhouse for responsible investment
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Special ReportESG: Leading viewpoint - venture capital is embracing ESG - and SFDR is a major driver
Venture capital funds opting in to responsible investing
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Special ReportESG: Interview - ShareAction’s Catherine Howarth on the cost of living crisis
“There’s going to be a good deal more scrutiny on the way the private sector behaves,” says the CEO of ShareAction, a London-based non-profit that coordinates investors and lenders on sustainability issues.
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Special ReportESG: Spotlight falls on ESG executive pay incentives
Executive pay is increasingly tied to sustainability targets and investors want to ensure incentives are properly designed
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Special ReportESG: Debate - Double or single materiality?
Two leading academics discuss the investment benefits of single versus double materiality
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Special ReportESG: Will Scope 3 lead to a tech exodus in public markets?
Could the roll out of Scope 3 reporting bring ESG funds’ love affair with tech to an abrupt end?
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Special ReportESG: Central banks nudge lenders to produce climate data
Lenders face a variety of challenges when measuring the environmental impact of their balance-sheet exposure
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Special ReportESG: Interview - Julian Poulter of The Inevitable Policy Response on ‘disorderly transition’
It is hard to stay positive about the climate transition when listening to Julian Poulter. The head of investor relations at Inevitable Policy Response (IPR), the climate policy forecast run by the Principles for Responsible Investment, has been working on climate change since 2009, when he was CEO of the Asset Owners Disclosure Project. But while many green-finance veterans are giddy about the snowballing interest in net zero, Poulter is feeling less bullish.
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Special ReportESG: Leading viewpoint - COP27 is the key moment to address the net-zero trilemma
World leaders gather in Egypt at a decisive time
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Special ReportESG: Leading viewpoint - write off ESG at your peril
ESG’s current travails are a mid-life crisis out of which something better and fitter will emerge
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Special ReportESG: Leading viewpoint - why a carbon footprint does not measure what you think it does
The concept of ecological footprinting turns 30
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Special ReportESG: Leading viewpoint - rethinking sovereign bonds
Sovereign debt markets are not fit for purpose
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Special ReportSpecial Report – Asia investment
Investors steadily withdrew from emerging Asia equity markets this year, taking nearly $30bn out of the markets in the seven months to the end of July, with six consecutive months of outflows. Tech-oriented Taiwan and South Korea were most affected and India was not unscathed.
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Special ReportETFs Guide 2022: Better tax treatment could prompt European ETF takeoff
First the good news: Globally, investment in ETFs continues to surge, with the first half of 2022 seeing the second highest inflows on record. The flexibility and ease of access they offer helped them play an instrumental role achieving the highest volume fixed income trading day being recorded in June, as $58bn of assets were moved from EM debt and high yield into government bonds (see p7). This helped cement ETFs’ position as an essential tool of the fixed income ecosystem.
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Special ReportAsia investment: Focus shift brings turmoil to emerging Asia equities
Enthusiasm about Asian equities has cooled on the back of global recession risk, geopolitics and inflation
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Special ReportETFs offer a firmer footing in shifting sands
The ETF market has experienced a sea change over the past few months. While net inflows of $463.8bn (€463.8bn) into ETFs and ETPs listed globally during the first half of 2022 are the second highest on record, the total value of assets in these products fell from $10.3trn at end-2021 to $8.9trn at the end of June 2022, according to research firm and consultancy ETFGI. There was a 6.4% fall in value during May alone.
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Special ReportAsia investment: GIC enhances sustainability focus
A sustainability office now complements a sustainable investment fund that was launched in 2020
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Special ReportFrom seed investor to prospective investor: the case for ETFs
Investor & manager trends
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Special ReportAsia investment: Japan’s GPIF assesses new strategy
World’s largest pension fund aims improve its allocation to ESG indices following a positive five-year track record
