ESG
ESG & Impact Investing focus: Microfinance
SEB´s Portfolio Manager of MicroFinance, Hetal Damani, on what differentiates their microfinance strategy – both from an investment perspective and in terms of ESG.
Danica’s Private Equity Allocator: a Scotswoman in Denmark
Linsay McPhater, Investment Director of Alternatives, talks to us about private equity investing; ESG; moving from London to work in Denmark, and the dearth of women in finance in the Nordics.
AP1’s ESG and Sustainability Policies
AP1´s Magdalena Håkansson and Tina Rönnholm comment on ESG policies and how they apply to external mandates....
Real Estate and ESG
Green Premia and Brown Discounts.....
30 Years of Impact Investing
Jupiter´s Charlie Thomas reflects on legacy, long-term thinking, labels and how to navigate an ever growing investment universe...
Credit and ESG Investing
The application of ESG to credit investing is rapidly evolving, and is, thus far, most well-developed in relation to investment grade corporate credit....
The end of the road for coal?
Not only does coal have a significant climate impact – LGIM also believe that it’s a poor investment....
The Green Bonds market
For the first five years, issuance of green bonds was measured in single digit billions, but has recently accelerated to USD 155 billion in 2017, and a forecast USD 250 billion in 2018....
Reinventing Climate Investing
Helping asset owners prepare their equity portfolio for the transition to a low-carbon economy....
SDG Bonds: Creating a World of Opportunity for Issuers and Investors
The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide the investment community, including bond issuers, with a framework for tackling long-term global challenges....
LGIM´s Approach to Responsible Investing
How responsible investing not only mitigates risks, but also leads to better long-term financial outcomes without sacrificing performance...
Can socially responsible investing enhance returns in corporate credit?
For a bond manager, there are many credible options to deploy in an ESG strategy...
What´s Your ESG Score?
Time for boards to wake up and realise that ESG is no longer just a topic that shows up once a year in the company’s Corporate Responsibility report...
A Growing Investment Universe Still Demands Discerning Analysis
Since 1988, Jupiter Ecology’s investment universe has ballooned from under 100 to over 1,200 companies. Regulation and subsidies have spawned new industries and firms, and awareness of climate change is now global.
What does ‘ESG integration’ really mean?
Today a large number of investors and asset managers use “ESG integration” to describe their overall approach to responsible investing but what does that really mean?
Harnessing ESG as an Alpha Source in Active Quantitative Equities
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) explain how they view ESG as a source of alpha that could lead to positive portfolio performance over time
Engineering a roster of ESG-focused managers and products
Active investment management is often said to sit somewhere between art and science. It is also said that while scientists dream about doing great things it is engineers that actually do them. Having an engineer at the helm of its manager selection team Nordea Investment Management might be onto something. … Read more
