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ESG Narratives Needed as well as Numbers

Chris Hall

Research predicts new demands on asset managers, as clients’ sustainable investment priorities mature. Institutional and intermediary clients’ sustainable investment demands are growing increasingly sophisticated, requiring managers to reappraise their skills and budget levels. A long way to go”.

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Take Five: Putin’s Sustainability Legacy

Chris Hall

This week’s blog marks the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by noting five of the changes it has wrought to sustainable investing. A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.

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New Singapore Guidance for FIs on Environmental Risks

Chris Hall

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has published new information papers on environmental risk management for banks , insurers and asset managers. Many asset managers have also made public commitments to sustainable investing, and a few have pledged to achieve net zero emissions for their investment portfolios by 2050.

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All Systems go for Net Zero

Chris Hall

Dr Tom Gosling, Executive Fellow at London Business School, has argued that some asset managers are effectively pulling their punches on net zero, holding off on implementing their collective and individual commitments, awaiting stronger policy direction from politicians. Lee suggests not. “In

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JUST Capital’s New Head of Investor Strategies Says It’s ‘Increasingly Irresponsible’ to Ignore ESG

Just Capital

At the same time, we realized that the lack of information coming out of companies about how they were managing their people meant that we needed to better understand what was happening at our portfolio companies. It’s like, “OK, companies, are you going to have stranded assets in the future? So what’s the issue?

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AB: ESG in Action - The Human Touch in Interpreting Climate Scenario Analysis

3BL Media

The evolving climate drives physical risks—damaged or stranded assets and business-interruption costs from severe weather events. Even Imperfect Data Offer Useful Information. Data that feed CVaR calculations are wide-ranging, often unstructured and from multiple sources. If the model doesn’t sync, more investigation is needed.

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ESG Explainer: Line of Duty

Chris Hall

Policy reform, best practice and legal judgments are redefining the relationship between fiduciary duty and sustainable investment. In late April, the UK High Court ruled that charity trustees can consider climate change factors when making decisions over their investments, even if it means making lower returns.

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