Chris Hall

MARCH 7, 2025

The firm issued a no action challenge on grounds of micromanagement to a resolution seeking information on the expected impact of climate-related pricing and coverage decisions on the sustainability of its homeowners insurance customer base under a range of climate scenarios.

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Negative Screening Sustainable Investment Climate Change Banking 87

ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This market boom and increasing focus on labelled bonds represent a significant challenge for investors, where issues around information and behaviours have led to controversy, adverse headlines and even sanctions, along with widespread concerns around greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

On the CharitySRI website, there’s information about how to get started with the process of writing a responsible investment policy – it’s quite process orientated.” “Pioneers help to inspire others to think about asking questions of their asset managers to improve the impact of their investment on the world,” she explained.

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Negative Screening Sustainable Investment Development 98

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Alexander from UKSIF said the three organisations are “optimistic” that the report will serve as a valuable contribution to regulatory authorities and the investment industry’s ongoing efforts to “create a more common language” around sustainability-focused investing.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

SFDR Level 1 requires asset management companies to provide information about their investments’ ESG risks and also their impact on society and the environment. SFDR requires that asset managers disclose ESG information for all funds, with the level of detail in disclosure increasing up to Article 9. What impact has SFDR had?

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

First was the ‘cry for help’, described as “the desire for basic information and support because they know they do not understand ESG”. The next, called ‘scene setting’, involved “numbers-orientated fact-gathering: often closed questions that force a yes / no answer, or require a number, or a label”.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As a result, to feel better, these investors want to screen out problematic companies from their investment portfolio. To serve this constituency, asset managers have long offered “values” or “socially responsible” (SRI) funds that offer a “negative screen.” For most individual investors, the answer will be at home.

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Green Bonds Decarbonize Negative Screening Banking 131

Chris Hall

JANUARY 13, 2023

Nature and biodiversity analytics company NatureAlpha has joined the alliance of organisations collaborating on the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) , to provide asset owners and asset managers with access to key global biodiversity information.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For the first time, it did not include the AUM of investors which stated that they practice firm-wide ESG integration without providing further information on specific ESG criteria used in their decision-making and portfolio construction, such as biodiversity or human rights.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The rise in ESG investment has contributed to an increasing demand for quality and comprehensive non-financial information disclosures. Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Consequently the information ESG investors are seeking is changing too.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Of the 2023 Clean200 companies, the information technology sector accounted for nearly a quarter of the total sustainable revenue at $586 billion, followed by the communications services sector ($542 billion) and the industrials sector ($400 billion). Apple and Alphabet, as last year, ranked first and second, respectively.

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Banking Manufacturing Negative Screening Paris Agreement 334

Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In its most simplified form, ESG investing is “negative screening”—not investing in companies with harmful practices or actively engaging company leadership to change those practices—whereas impact investing refers to investments made with the intention to create measurable positive impact alongside financial return.

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