ESG
ESG
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An advisor whose family has been “irrevocably harmed by police brutality” calls on industry peers and their clients to spark positive change.
June 3 -
The decade’s top performers also outpaced broader markets over the short term.
June 3 -
The funds will be used to support housing, job training and aid for small businesses in communities that have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
June 2 -
Sustainable investing offered more downside protection during the market downturn, according to recent data from Backend Benchmarking and research from asset managers.
May 26 -
In the first-quarter’s coronavirus-driven market decline, 94% of sustainable indexes outperformed, BlackRock research shows.
May 20 -
The firm said that 88% of sustainable indexes did better than their non-sustainable counterparts in the first four months of 2020.
May 18 -
“The world has become more digital, less global and more local,” says Amy Lo, co-head of the firm’s Asia Pacific wealth division.
May 8 -
There’s a lot to complain about these days, from the effectiveness of the government’s $3 trillion stimulus package to unlimited quantitative easing.
April 29 -
Fallout from the deepest worldwide downturn since the Great Depression has magnified economic and social inequality across the globe.
April 28 -
CEO Larry Fink announced a new focus on ESG in January, however the coronavirus has pushed a separate set of urgent issues into the forefront.
April 16 -
"Asset managers need to be faster and smarter to make the right bets in a fast-changing external environment.”
March 6 -
Managers who are can differentiate with solid ESG credentials stand to prosper, especially as a younger generation begins saving for investment.
March 5 -
While the sustainable industry accounts for less than 1% of the $20.7 trillion held in U.S. mutual funds and ETFs, the space is growing fast.
March 3 -
As proxy season nears, concerns grow around whether the manager is equipped to probe the companies in its funds to a more environmentally friendly line.
March 2 -
Investment in socially beneficial activities can be worthwhile. But it ignores the question of who decides what is beneficial.
February 24 -
In a new episode of Financial Planning’s In|Vest Podcast, the impact investing consultant explains what prompted her to start collecting accounts of harassment, assault and discrimination.
February 20 -
Analysis of funds that have sustainable equivalents shows there’s neither a long-term edge nor a sacrifice for picking one strategy over the other.
February 20 -
The firm, run by Big Short protagonist Greg Lippmann, may make sustainability the linchpin of its CLO business after completing its first deal that complies.
February 20 -
Amid a “rapidly increasing” number of ESG-aware clients, planners say the sector must clean up its act to survive.
February 14 -
While it’s debatable whether private donations should matter to an investor, transparency rules could become an issue as global warming accelerates.
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