ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Investment data and research provider MSCI announced today the launch of the MSCI Sustainability Institute, a new initiative aimed at enabling collaboration across the capital markets ecosystem on the creation of sustainable value and addressing global challenges such as climate change.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

BNP Paribas Asset Management announced the expansion of its ESG fixed income ETF range, with the launch of the new BNP Paribas Easy € Corp Bond SRI Fossil Free Ultrashort Duration UCITS ETF and BNP Paribas Easy USD Corp Bond SRI Fossil Free UCITS ETF. A minimum MSCI ESG rating of BBB is required for issuer inclusion.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Acer achieved full marks of 100 as well as scored in the top 100th percentile across various components: Materiality, Risk and Crisis Management, Innovation Management, Environmental Reporting, Social Reporting, Human Capital Development, Customer Relationship Management.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 8, 2023

But, while the door was wide open for the industry to start focusing on environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, private equity players have historically been slow to move on this opportunity. Research by BlackRock shows that PE outperformed the S&P 500 and MSCI World indexes by 2.8 But where to find those signs?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Morningstar excludes many types of ESG funds, including those employing exclusions and integrations, meaning its totals fall well short of the US$35.3 A 2022 PwC report noted that investors globally are expected to increase their ESG-related assets under management across mandates, mutual funds and private markets to US$33.9

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Global investment manager Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) announced today the launch of the World Natural Capital Paris-Aligned Index strategy, aimed at providing institutional clients with an enhanced net zero solution integrating climate and natural capital considerations. This strategy offers a compelling solution for them.”

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ESG Today

JANUARY 24, 2024

The climate data sets, from various data providers in a range of industries, will provide clients with modelled and reported emissions data, covering over 33,000 companies globally, and bringing together multiple data sets on regulatory, historical and forward-looking climate impacts from providers including MSCI and Inrate.

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3BL Media

MARCH 17, 2022

Back in 2016, we published an article in Reuters that highlighted the low correlation between MSCI and Sustainalytics ratings. For the S&P 1200 (a well-studied group of companies), there was only a 32% correlation between the ESG ratings from these two major data sources. Sustainalytics VS MSCI in 2016.

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ESG Today

JUNE 13, 2023

Morgan Securities Services announced today the launch of Sustainable Investment Data Solutions, a new platform targeted at institutional investors, aimed at enabling them to extract and maximize the value of ESG data from multiple sustainable investment (SI) data providers, and address the challenges of using internal and external SI data.

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ESG Today

JULY 5, 2022

Investor-focused decisions support tools and services company MSCI announced the launch of Total Portfolio Footprinting, a new solution to help financial institutions measure carbon emissions across their lending and investment portfolios.

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3BL Media

JUNE 1, 2022

DESCRIPTION: AB has teamed up with MSCI Inc. and Emerging Markets Investors Alliance (EMIA) to host the second annual APAC Emerging Markets ESG Conference on June 8-9. The conference features top investors, ESG experts, and Emerging Market corporates who will discuss topics dedicated to ESG issues in the APAC region.

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ESG Today

JUNE 14, 2023

and Japan-focused funds that track MSCI Climate Action indexes. MSCI launched its Climate Action Index suite last year, aimed at enabling investors to invest in companies making progress towards emissions reduction targets. Helsinki, Finland-based pension insurance company Ilmarinen announced investments of over €2.7

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

ESG in Action A new approach to environmental, social and governance (ESG) research could ease investors’ frustrations with sourcing and evaluating the data required for objective credit analysis. But their frustrations may be about to ease, thanks to a new approach to ESG research.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Publishing our 2021 TCFD Report is a reflection of our commitment to understanding climate risk, incorporating climate risk management into our business and disclosure strategies, and to helping our customers and communities transition toward a more sustainable future,” said Michele Mullins, senior vice president and climate risk officer. “The

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 12, 2022

is ending the final quarter of the year with a flurry of awards and recognition for the company’s work on sustainability and ESG excellence. The global power technology leader, for example, recently saw its ESG Rating from MSCI upgraded from AA a year ago to AAA last month, the highest rating possible. DESCRIPTION: Cummins Inc.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We have now ingested more than 900 sources of ESG data. Our 15 years of work have produced a database of 600 million pieces of ESG data on more than 50,000 entities. This data set supports our mission to use consensus ratings of company ESG performance as a lever to improve corporate sustainability.

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ESG Today

APRIL 10, 2023

Asset manager DWS’ exchange-traded funds business Xtrackers achieved the largest ever ETF launch in the U.S. The new fund, Xtrackers MSCI USA Climate Action Equity ETF (NYSE: USCA), aims to provide investors with exposure to U.S. ETF Launch with new Climate Action Fund appeared first on ESG Today.

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MARCH 28, 2024

A federal court in Australia released a ruling today, finding that Vanguard Investments Australia was guilty of making misleading claims about one of its ESG funds, including failing to exclude investments in companies with fossil fuel activities from the fund as claimed in its communication materials and disclosures.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Last updated on September 11, 2023 Forward-looking organizations are diving into environmental, social and governance ( ESG ) and sustainability, which can feel like ESG alphabet soup, a seemingly never-ending list of acronyms for varying ESG concepts, frameworks, rating agencies, regulations and regulatory bodies.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 8, 2024

Progress towards gender equality started from a low base, and more needs to be done to accelerate the pace of progress. “Things are slowly moving in the right direction,” Megan Le, Senior Analyst at GIB Asset Management, told ESG Investor. between 2014 to 2023 – less than 1% per year. In comparison, Japan logged just a 5.6%

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

DESCRIPTION: As we enter 2021, environmental, social and governance (ESG) continues to be a top priority for boards and management teams. Karen Snow , Senior Vice President and Head of East Coast Listings and Capital Services at Nasdaq, interviews veteran board member Betsy Atkins to get her insights on how to operationalize ESG.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2023

ESG indices are seeing breakneck speed growth, with smaller providers growing in influence. Rise of ESG indices The Index Industry Association (IIA) finds that while in 2022 overall growth of indices was 4.43%, the number of ESG indexes globally grew 55% and surpassed 50,000 worldwide across asset classes for the first time.

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ESG Today

MARCH 9, 2023

Global investment manager Franklin Templeton announced the launch of the Franklin MSCI Emerging Markets Paris Aligned Climate UCITS ETF, a new exchange traded fund for European investors, investing in emerging market securities transitioning to a low carbon economy. and Europe-focused funds.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 6, 2023

Research finds declining confidence, as the UK opens a consultation on regulating ESG rating agencies. But investor confidence in ESG rating products was moderate. Speaking to ESG Investor , Aiste Brackley, Partner at ERM, said while ESG ratings had evolved in recent years, many pain points persisted.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2022

Asset owners, asset managers and hedge funds prioritise transparency in long-short portfolio ESG reporting, says MSCI. . To date, short positions – where an investor sells a stock with the intention of buying back later in anticipation of a price drop – have typically been largely excluded from ESG analysis.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 16, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including MSCI, Clearstream, Proxymity, Malk Partners, Integrum ESG, CGI, and Arvani. . MSCI aims to help institutional investors understand those risks on the portfolio level.” .

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

That means all materials are designed with an intent to reuse them and thus becoming part of the circular economy,” said Fábio Belasco, Health, Safety and Environment Manager at CNH Industrial in Latin America. globally,” highlights Erika Michalik, CNH Industrial Sustainability Manager in Latin America.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 24, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Companies in all industries face growing pressure to implement credible strategies for addressing environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. ESG-focused investors have become an increasingly influential force for change that most companies can no longer ignore. What is a Proxy Statement?

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

BlackRock’s sustainability activity leads its investment megafirm cohort of Vanguard, Fidelity and State Street Global Advisors, which together manage 20 percent of global publicly listed securities , an aggregate $20 trillion assets under management at the end of last year. That’s excellent progress.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

DESCRIPTION: In 2021, we worked with a leading third-party consultant to prioritize our ESG objectives and develop key metrics that align with our business strategy and sustainable performance goals. Additionally, we reached out to our top 20 stockholders to review and seek input on our proposed ESG strategy. ESG STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2023

In the absence of sufficient corporate disclosures, fund managers are failing to disclose the extent to which their EU-domiciled sustainability-labelled products are aligned with the environmental objectives of the EU taxonomy. The main challenge lies in the lack of underlying company reporting.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 11, 2022

Investors increasingly equate poor ESG (environmental, social and governance) performance with material financial risk. MSCI might buy that data from the satellite [data] company and then sell it on to State Street,” says Todd Cort, co-director of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment.

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3BL Media

MARCH 15, 2022

Publishing our 2021 TCFD Report is a reflection of our commitment to understanding climate risk, incorporating climate risk management into our business and disclosure strategies, and to helping our customers and communities transition toward a more sustainable future,” said Michele Mullins, senior vice president and climate risk officer. “The

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

According to BlackRock, the new fund is being introduced following investor demand for an ESG version of the firm’s $15 billion BGF Global Allocation Fund, one of the leading multi-asset portfolios in the EMEA market. The post BlackRock Launches Multi-Asset ESG Fund, Designed as a “Core Sustainable Holding” appeared first on ESG Today.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Over the past several years, environmental, social and governance (ESG) has moved to the forefront of investment strategies, making it critically important for corporate investor relations (IR) teams to communicate their sustainability story through roadshows, investor meetings and annual sustainability reports.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

It reflects the Company's unwavering commitment to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) Yum China is the only consumer services company from the Chinese mainland to be selected as a member of DJSI World. The Company also received a peer-leading S&P Global ESG score. "We

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 3, 2022

GFANZ, which made international headlines and represented one of the planet’s best hopes for meaningful climate action a year ago, is facing growing discontent within its membership of global banks, insurers, investment managers and consultants, and asset owners. and Canadian banks and large investment managers. . Former U.S.

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