ESG Special Reports – Page 26
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What the smart CEO needs to know
CEOs and other corporate leaders often lack direct knowledge and experience in managing social responsibility challenges. How can they maintain their focus on value creation while minimising the potential disruptions to their business from these increasingly powerful external forces? There are five essential issues that CEOs should focus on to ...
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The comfort factor
INREV’s Alisdair Evans examines how corporate governance in unlisted funds for real estate investing can be significantly improved upon
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UN leads from the front
Over the past year the United Nations has been working with financial institutions to establish a common ethical framework, as Stephanie Schwartz-Driver discovers
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Part of what they believe in
While more funds are taking SRI/ESG on board, each follows their own approach. Rachel Fixsen investigates how they implement their guidelines
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Articles of faith
Faith groups are coming together on SRI issues and collectively can command substantial assets. But how much do they really have in common, asks Shayla Walmsley
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More than just a lot of hot air
As the world grows steadily more sensitive to climate change and harmful gas production, emissions trading is attracting more investment says Nina Roehrbein
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Traditional researchers join in
Thanks to regulations, climate change, carbon emissions and supply chain issues, brokers are more proactive in gathering SRI intelligence, says Lynn Strongin Dodds
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Not just a matter of fashion
Lynn Strongin Dodds talks to some industry executives to discover who is investing in SRI and and what companies are attracting their money
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Investing for a cleaner planet
Stephanie Schwartz-Driver discovers how exchange traded funds offer socially responsible investment, developed by a number of US innovators
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The emerging market traders
Lynn Strongin Dodds reports on how emerging markets entering the world’s stock exchanges are encouraging companies to clean up their act
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Making a beeline for activist hedge funds
The activities of activist funds in targeting companies that have become national champions have caused political apoplexy throughout Europe, with ministers wagging their fingers at pension funds and warning them to have nothing to do with predatory private equity companies and hedge funds. But pension funds are encouraged to diversify into alternative investments and become active owners of the companies they invest in. So what should they do?
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Dedicated to SRI - profits or not
IPE asked three pension funds – in Belgium, Denmark and Austria – the same question: ‘Do you do SRI and if so how and does it give a good return?’ Here are their answers:
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SRI-boot now on bond foot?
The issue of applying SRI/ESG criteria to debt is surfacing, but there are questions as to how to go about about it. Rachel Fixsen investigates
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The perils of divestment
Pension funds in Europe have always sought to screen out irresponsible businesses, says Shayla Walmsley, but drawing the line has never easy and double standards abound
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European SRI tops €1trn
SRI investments in Europe’s nine major markets have increased by 36% over the past three years, according a new report from Eurosif. Jérôme Tagger reports
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A duty to litigate?
The case for European pension funds to take part in US shareholder litigation is becoming so strong that not to do so could be regarded as a lack of fiduciary responsibility? Roy Jones, Darren Check and Daniel Summerfield explain
