26 October, 2018
BlackRock’s sustainable investment ambition
It was probably inevitable, but the fact that the world’s largest fund manager has thrown its weight behind sustainable investing really puts down a marker. [pull-left]“Sustainable investing wi...
3 October, 2018
Rise in firms taking responsibility for ESG
Responsible investing—the process of integrating environmental, social and governance principles into investment criteria—is growing in popularity. That’s the conclusion of a survey of instit...
14 June, 2018
ESG: is it truly being integrated with investment decisions?
Reading the transparency reports submitted by signatories to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), it becomes clear that asset managers take widely different approaches in the integratio...
12 June, 2018
LGIM names companies performing badly on climate change
Companies considered to be "laggards" in their efforts to address climate change have been named and shamed by Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM). The investment manager said it had d...
7 June, 2018
Why serious investors demand more than just climate disclosure
In 2014, when I first started engaging pension funds on the issue of climate change, a worrying number would respond that they could not take savers’ “ethical concerns” into account. Not only a ...
28 May, 2018
An asset to responsible investment: Michael Herskovich, BNP Paribas
While other asset managers may make bigger headlines, BNP Paribas Asset Management’s record on integrating social and environmental factors into their decision-making makes others look like latecome...
20 April, 2018
Campaign demands more ‘sustainable’ companies for investors
Chief executives at some of the world's largest companies are receiving letters from investors calling for improved environmental performance. Coordinated by the campaign group ShareAction, investo...
2 March, 2018
Core strengths: Katharina Latif, Allianz
A team of “crazy experts” preoccupied with what was once deemed an “ivory tower topic,” the climate and sustainability unit at German insurance giant All...
29 March, 2017
A good investment: Steve Waygood
Steve Waygood holds what at first glance seems like a contradictory view. Markets, he says, are failing to address environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. But—and it’s a big but—he em...
28 July, 2015
