We are now publishing our ESG links on a monthly basis. You can check out the previous set of links including a look at the high cost of generating ESG data.
Quote of the Day
"If you are an asset manager who wants to do business in Europe, you need to have an ESG offering. "
(Joachim Klement)
Ratings
- ESG ratings have built-in sectoral biases. (factorresearch.com)
- Morningstar ($MORN) has begun integrating environmental, social and governance factors into all its analysis of stocks, funds and asset managers. (ftadviser.com)
- Jeff Ptak and Christine Benz talk with Michael Jantzi who is CEO of Sustainalytics about the future of sustainable investing. (morningstar.com)
- Blackrock's ($BLK) Aladdin now has the ability to drill down to the climate risks of individual securities. (institutionalinvestor.com)
Diversity
- The Nasdaq wants to require listed companies to have diverse boards. (nytimes.com)
- A record 41 female CEOs are slated to be soon running Fortune 500 companies, many of them in retail. (wsj.com)
- Companies with more women on the board perform better. (ft.com)
Money management
- Rick Redding, "The number of indices measuring ESG criteria grew by more than 40% in the past year." (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
- A profile of Lauren Taylor Wolfe and Christian Alejandro Asmar's Impactive Capital which uses ESG criteria to select stocks. (forbes.com)
- Direct indexing is built for ESG mandates. (thinkadvisor.com)
- Breaking down the ranks of ESG ETFs. (etf.com)
- How to invest a muni bond portfolio with social purpose. (parametricportfolio.com)
ESG
- How sustainability differs across countries with different legal traditions. (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
- What startups can to do show their environmental impact, or lack thereof. (ft.com)
- Third-party company emissions data just isn't all that useful. (papers.ssrn.com)
- Solutions to reduce food waste would be a boon the environment and business' bottom lines. (ft.com)
- Allstate ($ALL) recently conducted a bond deal using only diverse-owned banks. (msn.com)
- Green investors are increasingly turning the courts to make an impact. (economist.com)
