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Theme of the Month
Philippe Desfossés, RAFP: sustainable investment requires changing investor market expectations
Investors need to go back to the origin of the risk they are taking.
Public demand is driving the evolution of green and ethical investment
Awareness growing of what responsible investing is.
Comment. Steve Lydenberg: What is responsible investment without dilemmas?
We are asking many of the hard questions that those in the mainstream financial community are often all too quick to dismiss.
What’s behind the private equity rush to ESG?
The PE sector has been quick to adopt the UNPRI and ESG.
The changes needed to ensure the sustainability of private equity and commitments by pension funds
A limited partner outlines where PE and investors need to work together to drive ESG forward.
The duty to be an enlightened fiduciary
Is the current status quo on fiduciary duty in beneficiaries’ interests?
We must rediscover real fiduciary duty before confidence in pensions evaporates
If you don’t trust your agent, you won’t hand over the money…
Positive signs from Cancun despite US institutional investor absence
Emerging markets showing the way on low carbon investment.
Wall Street, as much as Cancún and Congress, holds key to green economy
Expectations of an agreement in Mexico are low, but Wall Street could play its part in better news.
Cancún special: institutional investors bullish as they arrive at COP16 for climate financing talks
RI talks with Ole Beier Sørensen, chairman of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change.
Financial transaction taxes: the common sense approach
Why FTT could be the governmental solution to meeting the Millennium Development Goals.
The rising wave of investor/corporate engagement in Japan
How the debate and practice of engagement in Japan has developed.
Tightening up on bribery: changes to the OECD convention
As investors get tough on corruption, what are the implications of OECD enhancements to the Anti-bribery Convention
ESG practices in Africa are improving
Uptake is essential for development and building value, says new PRI signatory, CDC.
Copenhagen climate summit frames investment choices
Survey of 64 developing-country financial institutions (FIs)
An investor’s look ahead to Copenhagen
Investors need a common playing field with clear long-term rules of the game in terms of greenhouse gases.
After the crisis, bonus business as usual?
Why pension funds and NGOs should work together to thwart corporate greed.
We must incentivise long-term investment to help prevent systemic risk
Stronger investor engagement will help but not fix the problem of ownership.
Green New Deals for new green investment
What could the various green global economic stimuli mean for institutional investors?
Hedge Funds in the SRI context – steps taken and the potential leaps ahead
Increasing numbers of hedge funds are seeing opportunity in the responsible investment space.
Climate change investing for pension funds – commercial decision or altruism?
By acting on climate change, schemes can help to protect returns from existing and future investments.
From crisis to catalyst
How ESG implementation could be the beginning of a solution to the market meltdown.
France’s FRR: blue skies thinking on engagement and ESG manager selection
Reserve fund breaks the mould with planned corporate engagements and forthcoming ESG advisory hire.
Going direct: Norway’s €326bn investor ESG data project
Government supported investor initiative goes direct for company SRI key performance indicators.
ESG integration: From why to how?
“Investment-as-usual” is changing toward ESG integration, but says Graham Sinclair, execution remains a huge challenge.
Mainstreaming RI: The Enhanced Analytics Initiative needs you!
Why the biggest challenge now is to get relevant extra-financial analysis direct to mainstream analysts.
US Special: Investors rally on say-on-pay and sub-prime votes
Compensation concerns in focus as US meeting season looms.
What does Bali mean for institutional investors?
Agreement on a ‘roadmap’ for a post-Kyoto climate agreement gives carbon trading a longer perspective. How should institutional investors react?
Carbon: a new asset class?
Investors are already testing the potential of markets in greenhouse gas emissions, but what are the risks and how can they be avoided?
Indices rise to the sustainability challenge
A new breed of indices is being added to the established SRI benchmarks.
Clean tech booms despite the bubble talk
Investor allocations soar, but research is key to finding the sectors that will match future political decisions on climate change.
How to invest in clean tech
A guide to selecting investment strategies and fund managers in this nascent asset class.
Climate change: mother of invention and investment returns
Why the technological revolution will clean up the planet and drive profits.
Going Green – the investment opportunities
Theme of the month: Finding the new industries that will profit from the drive to a better environment.
The Janus-faced foreign investors in China
Greenpeace says investors in China must act responsibly before we all pay the price.
The rising sun of institutional SRI in Asia
The SE Asia market for responsible investment is growing, but could be tested in a market downturn.
Calculating the carbon footprint of Chinese companies
Credible reporting is crucial to solve China’s growing CO2 problem
Why being responsible does not mean underperforming in SE Asia
Investment opportunities are ripe, but it pays to know the CSR terrain.
Can ‘Made in China’ be responsible?
Theme of the month: Why investors must help clean up South East Asia’s companies.
UN PRI adds competitive edge to responsible investing
Can scoring move SRI to the mainstream?