ESG / Sustainable & Responsible Investment
Asset Owners & Managers, Ratings Agencies

Source: Quartz - Microsoft has been the biggest winner from stock market investment into environmental, social, and governance-oriented (ESG) funds, according to financial data company EPFR. The Windows creator is among the tech giants...
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March 12, 2020
Source: Ceres - A diverse group of investors, companies, trade associations, institutions, and organizations across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic are urging the region’s governors today to band together and create a clean transportation future...
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Source: Karma Impact - The 15% meltdown in equities over the past three weeks is poised to test investors’ commitments to sustainability as never before.
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March 11, 2020
Source: Bloomberg - Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s fund-management unit wants a woman on every corporate board, and the Wall Street firm said it's now willing to
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Source: Forbes - Stock prices historically depend on future cash flows. But what if climate change endangers that stream? Odds are very strong, alas, that this could happen. And the results for investors will be ugly. Not to mention the results...
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March 10, 2020
Source: Bloomberg - A “brown-penalizing factor” imposing additional capital requirements for environmentally harmful business is under discussion among central bank officials, Mark Carney, the outgoing BOE governor, said in a Feb. 27 letter to U.K....
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Source: FT - The world’s biggest asset managers have embarked on a hiring spree across their stewardship and sustainable investing teams, as fund houses tap into growing demand for environmental, social and governance investing.
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March 09, 2020
Source: ISS - nstitutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), the leading provider of end-to-end corporate governance and responsible investment solutions to the global financial community, has announced the launch of a new thematic specialty...
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Source: Forges - References to concepts like ESG, impact investing, social responsibility, carbon footprint initiatives, sustainable investing, climate change, green or sustainable funds and other related concepts are at every turn now in the...
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Source: Forbes - The explosive rise of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing is forcing boards as well as corporate finance professionals to rethink how they measure company performance, but it also offers a new opportunity to...
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Governance & Accountability Institute is a monitoring, intelligence-gathering and knowledge management center operating at the intersection of powerful forces reshaping relationships between stockholders and stakeholders, and the public corporation. The key players transforming the markets and interacting with corporate management and boards include fund owners and asset managers and their third party advisors-in sovereign wealth funds,socially responsible investment organizations, activist hedge funds, public pension funds, labor union funds, private equity firms, investment banks...and more.
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