ESG default insurance is a solution that forces a company to focus on specific stakeholders, helps the earnest ESG companies to separate from companies paying lip service, and gives socially active investors skin in the game by making it financially lucrative to sue a company if it reneges on its ESG promises, and empowers the […]
CAMBRIDGE, MA: Capital markets and regulators are moving fast to integrate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors into the investment decision-making process, but struggle with the quality and consistency of ESG data, despite the framework laid out by the Global Reporting Initiative. The MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative‘s Aggregate Confusion Project (ACP) welcomes four new investment
London, UK: New research from PwC has found that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors have now become a make-or-break consideration for leading investors globally. It is a wake-up call for all companies, large and small, to embrace triple-bottom-line business practices. Almost half of investors surveyed expressed willingness to divest from companies that aren’t taking
Charlottesville, VA: The CFA Institute has published its first ESG disclosure standards for investment products. The association for investment professionals said the voluntary standards will provide investors with information about how investment products align their objectives, investment processes and stewardship activities with ESG considerations. … Margaret Franklin, president and chief executive of the CFA Institute,
Brussels: Under the European Green Deal, the financial system has an important role to play in supporting the long-term transition to sustainable development in general and especially the transition to climate neutrality by 2050. Or, as Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis puts it, “As the EU economy transitions towards carbon neutrality, it is vital that banks can
Sustainable Development Goals were created by the United Nations in 2015. SDGs are a set of time-bound and measurable targets that seek to achieve three overarching goals: end poverty, promote sustainable economic growth, and protect the environment by 2030. The SDGs will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were established in 2000 to reduce
Naxxar, Malta: CoreData is a research consultancy and unique collaboration of market research, media, industry, and marketing experts from around the world. Since 2002, they have delivered research-based insights to businesses in order to aid growth and fundamental transformation. In summary, this article is about a survey conducted by CoreData on 300 UK financial advisers
London, UK: Ahead of the COP26 Climate Change Conference, the BVCA Limited Partner Summit examined how institutional investors are obtaining and measuring environmental, social, and governance data from their private equity holdings and asset managers. Bill Prew, CEO of INDOS Financial, a JTC Group company, sat down to moderate the session with leading names in
Don’t be fooled by the name. It may not sound like much, but the NSF International is like an invisible shield that protects us. It is an integral part of the global public health infrastructure which is at work around the globe on a daily basis. It’s a non-profit organization that provides standards development, product
The production externality is a concept that deals with the social benefits of goods and services. Production externalities are often ignored in economic analysis because they cannot be directly measured or calculated. A negative production externality, for example, would include pollution from a factory that lowers the value of neighboring properties and imposes costs on
Today, businesses and investors are increasingly recognizing the importance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in decision-making. As a result, ESG scores, also known as an “ESG score”, have become an essential tool in evaluating a company’s sustainability, long-term potential, and impact on the world. In this blog post, we will delve into the
ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance and this type of disclosure requires companies to disclose how they manage these three aspects of sustainability. The goal is that the market will then reward companies who are doing a good job in one or more of these areas and punish those who aren’t. Investors should always