Socially responsible investment (SRI)
Impact investing: trends and best practices
A panel of investment specialists discusses the rapidly expanding world of environment, social and governance (ESG) investing, with a particular focus on climate. They discuss best practice for achieving impact investing, their expectations on climate…
US pension fund teams up with academics to cut through ESG fog
State fund and MIT’s business school look to improve ESG data and to reflect all investors’ views
Quants use AI to cut through murk of ‘sustainability’
Separating the wheat from the chaff is fundamental to ESG investing. Machine learning can do that
Game changers: adapting to new digital and ESG frontiers
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A fuzzy data envelopment analysis model for evaluating the efficiency of socially responsible and conventional mutual funds
The authors of this paper use data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the relative efficiency of a sample of US equity mutual funds.
Banks' ethics push seen as good for bottom line
EU non-financial reporting rules expected to push firms to consider ESG concerns
Rise in microfinance poses new regulatory problems
Operational risks from microlending increasing in developed and developing world
World Bank launches first '100% green' structured product
€50m structured note combines green bond with ethical equity index
Hintze calls for asset managers to make a difference
CQS leads way in pushing for higher standards for hedge fund industry
Mariner encourages hedge fund community to adopt UN PRI
Mariner adopts UN PRI
GLG’s White drops hedge funds to work directly with Man Group’s Manny Roman
GLG’s John White has moved from managing equity hedge funds to work closely with Man chief executive Manny Roman. His existing hedge funds have been handed over to others within GLG to run
Hedge funds face dilemma of implementing socially responsible investing
Responsible investing challenge
Hedge funds need ethical guidelines
Ethical behaviour
MSCI and Barclays partner to launch ESG fixed-income indexes
Link-up will allow institutional fixed-income investors to apply ESG investment strategies to their bond portfolios
Investors urged to adopt a financial risk-based approach to environmental, social and governance factors
The financial crisis has led to a greater awareness of the need for a much broader analysis of corporate performance and risk that encompasses environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, rather than merely focusing on quarterly returns, say…
Marrying economic imperatives with sustainable values
Lost in translation
SocGen socially responsible ETN donates fees to charity
Société Générale's first London-listed note to track SRI companies also benefits charity by giving fees to the Teenage Cancer Trust
Deutsche Bank ETF gives investors returns from supporting charity
Deutsche Bank has taken its Global Fund Supporters ETF to London. The ETF provides exposure to those who support the charitable work of the Global Fund and in turn gives fees to the cause
S&P launches social responsibility index for Middle East and North Africa
S&P launches social responsibility index for Middle East and North Africa
Agrica profile – risk managing SRI
Responsible change
MSCI targets ESG investors with new index series
MSCI has developed a series of ESG indexes to serve the growing community of principles-based investors