We are now publishing ESG links on a monthly basis. You can check out the previous set of links including a look at the importance of proxy voting for ESG investment strategies.
Behavior
- How a focus on sustainable investing can make for better investors. (fa-mag.com)
- Do ESG investors really behave better? (evidenceinvestor.com)
Gender
- A review of some research showing women to be better investors than men. (ft.com)
- One challenge for adding more women to corporate boards is finding open seats. (wsj.com)
- Gender diversity funds don't all vote the same way on shareholder issues. (morningstar.com)
- Even gender-blind reviews show some bias. (papers.ssrn.com)
Activism
- Fund managers are the new activist investors. (barrons.com)
- The major asset managers still have a ways to go in terms of engaging companies as shareholders. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- The numbers indicate that companies are increasingly bowing to sustainability demands. (wsj.com)
- Amazon ($AMZN) employees are using shareholder initiatives to push for change at the company. (wired.com)
- Advocacy groups are pressuring banks to pull back from gun manufacturers. (nytimes.com)
Climate
- Major asset managers have been writing more about the implications of climate change on investing. (mutualfundobserver.com)
- Jeremy Grantham thinks climate change investing should be its own bucket. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- Asset managers are going to need better tools to manage the risk of climate change on their portfolios. (blackrock.com)
- Climate change introduces a huge amount of uncertainty into the mix. (ft.com)
- The uncertainty of climate change is forcing companies to take on less debt. (papers.ssrn.com)
- How to create portfolios that 'hedge' climate change. (papers.ssrn.com)
Impact investing
- Four ways to simplify impact investing. (nytimes.com)
- The Rockefeller Foundation is going to begin managing outside money in impact-type strategies. (wsj.com)
ESG
- Patrick O'Shaughnessy talks with Katherine Collins, who is the head of sustainable investing at Putnam Investments, and author of the book "he Nature of Investing: Resilient Investment Strategies through Biomimicry." (investorfieldguide.com)
- Not every sustainable-focused fund follows the same investment strategy. (nytimes.com)
- Add 'water neutrality' to the list of potential ESG issues. (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
- ESG negative screening is inherently flawed. (ft.com)
- How to identify investors who are interested in ESG. (morningstar.com)
- How board members feel about ESG. (hbr.org)
- ImpactShares is trying to mix ESG and philanthropy. (etf.com)
- Even Wells Fargo ($WFC) is rolling out ESG-focused portfolio solutions. (citywireusa.com)
