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

Source: Barron's - Under growing pressure from consumers, sustainability will be at the top of the fashion industry’s agenda in the coming decades. And the transition toward responsible practices will present an unprecedented investment...
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Source: Fox - As investors look for opportunities to grow their portfolios, many are betting on companies that provide sustainable alternatives to items that are damaging to the environment
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Source: The Verge - Starbucks announced today that it’s going to slash the greenhouse gases it emits and waste it sends to landfills in half over the next decade. It’s also committing to conserving or replenishing 50 percent of all the water it...
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Source: World Economic Forum - We define sustainable investing as taking traditional investment practices and strategies and enhancing them with additional insights gained from considering environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors
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January 21, 2020
Source: As You Sow - Starbucks Corp., the world’s largest coffeehouse company, has agreed to shift from single-use packaging to reusable packaging, conduct unprecedented research to promote customer behavior change, develop new global reusable...
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January 21, 2020
Source: MSCI - MSCI, a leading provider of mission critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, is calling for all investors globally to more readily integrate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)...
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January 21, 2020
Source: Bloomberg - Today, Bloomberg Media launched Bloomberg Green, a new multiplatform editorial brand focused on climate change news, analysis, and solutions. Bloomberg Green includes a new website featuring a global, interactive climate data...
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Source: Barron's - Barron’s fourth annual ranking of big-cap equity mutual funds that received an “above average” or “high” sustainability rating from Morningstar shows that they outperformed comparable funds with lower sustainability ratings.
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Source: The Epoch Times - ESG investing reaches an inflection point. Will the standards have real bite to effect change at companies, or become an irrelevant article for portfolio managers to simply “check the box” and move on?
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Source: MorningStar - Sustainable funds in the United States attracted new assets at a record pace in 2019. Estimated net flows into open-end and exchange-traded sustainable funds that are available to U.S. investors totaled $20.6 billion for the...
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