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Economist Events’ 4th Annual Investing for Impact Conference to Share Vision for 2020 and Beyond
Economist editors, business executives, policymakers, academics, fund managers, and institutional investors gather to explore what the next decade has in store for the future of impact investing.
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Emerging Markets Are the Next Hot Spot for Sustainable Investing
Many of the leading companies in solar energy, electric-vehicle components, or water filtration hail from China or South Korea. “We see more opportunities in emerging markets proportionally,” says Kate Starr, chief investment officer at sustainability consultant Flat World Partners.
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Viewpoint: China’s Embrace of ESG Is Threat to Real Sustainable Investing
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing standards—also called “sustainable investing” and “socially responsible investing”—have taken on greater importance in the investment community in recent years. Such investing has also reached the shores of China. With this, ESG investing reaches an inflection point. Will the standards have real bite, effecting change at companies, or will they become an irrelevant article for portfolio managers to simply “check the box” and move on?
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- Asia Pacific
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‘Green Is Good.’ Is Wall Street’s New Motto Sustainable?
As big institutions go green, it can make for strange bedfellows, like some of Goldstein’s clients who were carried into the Goldman Sachs fold. Among them, a group of Midwestern nuns known as the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, a Roman Catholic group out of St. Louis.
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Press Release: EcoVadis Secures c. $200M Investment from CVC Growth Partners to Accelerate Adoption of Sustainability Ratings Throughout the Globalised Economy
This transaction represents one of the largest investments in the ESG space to date and reflects a shared long-term vision for the importance of ESG to business success. EcoVadis will leverage the funding to scale globally and ingrain sustainability, fair labour practices and ethics into enterprise supply chains and business commerce.
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Why Asia Could Soon Dominate Responsible Investing
While Asia might currently be lagging behind in terms of market share in the ESG investment space, I believe there are several key reasons this can be expected to change over the next decade.
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View: Why ESG matters in financial services
The whole of 2019 saw a fierce and intense debate globally around the adoption of environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles as a way of doing business. The year gave the world in general and India, in particular, some compelling reasons to improve their ESG standards. For example, July 2019 was declared to be the hottest month on record for the planet, and a report in April indicated that air pollution alone kills 1.2 million people in India throughout the year.
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- Environment, Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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- ESG, financial health
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Press Release: Shareholders to BlackRock: It’s Time to Walk the Talk, Implement Business Roundtable’s ‘Purpose of a Corporation’
Shareholders are demanding that companies exercise leadership on a broader range of environmental, social, and governance issues. They want company actions to be integrated with the BRT statement, not contradict it. For example, BlackRock is the largest investor in companies building new coal power capacity across the world with a total investment of more than $11 billion USD.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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