ESG Special Reports – Page 13
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Special ReportETFs for ESG: Why passive makes sense for ESG
ESG investing – the incorporation of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment criteria – has grown rapidly in recent years.
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Special ReportETFs for ESG: The ESG governance challenge
An increasing number of institutional investors are interested in investments with an environmental, social and/or governance (ESG) focus.
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ETFs for ESG: Sustainable investing is here to stay
Sustainable investing was once viewed as a trade-off between value and ‘values’. Yet today, it’s something investors can no longer afford to ignore.
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Special ReportETFs for ESG: The devil in the detail of ‘low carbon’ ETFs
Sustainable market indices are nothing new. The Dow Jones Sustainability index was launched in 1999 and the FTSE4Good index in 2001.
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Special ReportETFs for ESG: Corporate governance for passive investors in Japanese equities
The Japanese economy has been experiencing significant and positive change since the election of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2012. After a sustained period of economic stagnation, Japan’s return to growth is being fuelled by Abe’s transformative economic policies.
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Special ReportETFs for ESG: Gender equality ETFs gain a foothold
Can a new category of ETFs help address one of the oldest economic imbalances of all?
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Special ReportEU Sustainable Finance: The greening of Europe
The EU wants to encourage environmentally friendly investment practices. Will its taxonomy stimulate the green bond market?
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Viewpoints: Investment as the saviour
How taxonomy, trajectory and Ecolabel could save our children
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Viewpoints: The industry reacts
Will the EU Sustainable Finance Technical Expert Group’s June 2019 reports on the green taxonomy, green bond standards and climate benchmarks succeed in mobilising investors and capital in support of sustainability objectives?
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A green game changer
New EU green finance requirements will increase demand for better and more comparable ESG data
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Special ReportThe origin of ESG indices
What does the proliferation of sustainable benchmarks mean for passive ESG investing?
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Special ReportESG: The missing dimension in risk management
Embedding ESG into the investment process will be in the long-term financial best interest of beneficiaries
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Special ReportGreen finance: Financing environmental benefits
Green finance is drawing huge interest in light of climate change, but it needs to be about more than financial returns
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Special ReportWhy FRR doesn’t invest in green bonds – for now
While the French pension reserve fund has embraced and integrated the sustainability agenda in its investment strategies and was one of the first to incorporate climate change into its portfolio, it does not invest in green bonds
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Special ReportAlecta: a Swedish investor’s green bond learning curve
Alecta, the largest occupational pension provider in Sweden, with SEK874bn (€85.4bn) in assets, now invests SEK31.4bn in green bonds.
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Special ReportInfrastructure: Joining the dots on green projects
Lack of a co-ordinated policy is hindering climate-friendly infrastructure investment
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Special ReportOcean finance: In search of blue returns
Attention on polluted seas is leading to discussions about how to marshal capital to clean them up
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Special ReportChina: The greening of China
China plans to invest more than $6trn in green power and clean tech in the next two decades
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Green bond funds: Mixed climate for European funds
Assets are up, but performance is down
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Special ReportSpecial Report: ESG takes root
One in every four professionally managed dollars is now invested sustainably according to some definition, with a total of $22.9trn run in this way overall
