2011 Banking Sustainable Investment 
Corporate Knights
JANUARY 16, 2024
While many companies, particularly in the fossil fuel and banking sectors, resist any major departure from their lucrative business-as-usual path, the leaders are doubling down on sustainability. In the 2024 Global 100 ranking, the top-ranked firms allocated 55% of their investments to sustainable projects, up from 47% the year prior.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
The sustainable investment community already is engaged in this effort, channeling dollars to companies with better environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices. One in every three professionally managed dollars in the United States — $17 trillion — is invested with an ESG focus. We agree that this shift is overdue.
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3BL Media
MARCH 21, 2022
From 2011-2019, an eight-year period, companies with more gender diversity enjoyed a one-year return on equity that was 2% better than companies with low gender diversity. For example, investing in companies providing products and services that benefit women and girls. 1 " Some gender disparities widened in the U.S. 4, 2021, [link].
Chris Hall
AUGUST 4, 2023
The new President of the World Bank, Ajay Banga, recently spoke about investment’s role in delivering positive change. Sustainable investing of every kind is to some degree geared towards addressing the biggest threats facing our planet and its inhabitants, which means our collective response must itself be monumental.
James Militzer
AUGUST 15, 2022
According to the World Bank , 15% of the world’s population has a disability. After moving out of the executive role at Shoppers Stop, he founded TRRAIN in 2011. In India, only 36% of the over 26 million people with disabilities are employed. of the country’s population to have disabilities. Photo courtesy of TRRAIN.
Chris Hall
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including AustralianSuper, Morningstar, Tikehau Capital, Oak Hill Advisors and Guinness Global Investors. . He has also previously held roles at the Global Impact Investing Net work and the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank initiative.
Chris Hall
APRIL 4, 2024
Productivity: only 74% of the Latin American population (over 15 years old) has access to bank accounts, versus 97% in OECD countries. Climate: 60% of Latin American cities experienced heatwaves between 2011-2020, with 28% considered extreme events. In addition, GDP per worker is ~three times lower versus OECD countries.
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